Lock Davidson (February 28, 1884 - September 1963) was a six-term mayor of Melbourne, Florida from 1936 to 1942.

The six-term mayor said that with "Democrats holding a 36,000 to 25,000 majority in enrollment in the city, the only way a Republican can win is with the help of Democrats."

Cianci, that is - the charismatic, criminally convicted, six-term mayor of Providence, who had been freshly hit with a 97-page federal indictment charging bribery and racketeering.

Mr. Schermerhorn, who has both Republican and Conservative Party backing this year, is opposed by E. Arthur Gray, a 63-year-old Democrat who is a funeral director and the six-term mayor of Port Jervis.

Harry C. Goode, Jr. (born March 6, 1938) is a former six-term mayor of Melbourne, Florida from 1979 to 1986 and 2004 to 2012.

Royce Pollard (b. 1939) was the six-term mayor of Vancouver, Washington, the fourth largest city in Washington state.

Two years ago, Mr. Wasicsko took on Councilman Stephen T. Kubasek Jr., a six-term Republican incumbent in Yonkers' Seventh Ward and former deputy mayor.

One name he readily offers, though, is that of William J. MacNamara, a former six-term mayor of New Britain who is now chairman of the town's police board.

It received generous subsidies from Tokyo for years; its former six-term mayor, Tetsuji Nakata, was famous for winning projects from the central government.

Mr. Malloy's victory came as a surprise to Mr. DeStefano's supporters, who had predicted he would lose by as many as 100 votes to Mr. DeStefano, a six-term mayor who began campaigning two years ago.