Giant urban districts were created 100 years ago to limit ethnic ward leaders' power to dispense school jobs as patronage.

City Hall bosses imposed the ban, she said, but ward leaders like herself had to explain them to the people.

They were all there, all the ward leaders who would take the word back to the people.

He made enemies rapidly in replacing what was estimated as more than half of the city's ward leaders.

Her mother is a longtime political figure in Philadelphia, serving as a Democratic ward leader and city commissioner (1976-2011).

He was an active Democrat, serving as ward leader, precinct committeeman, and member of the county executive committee.

Abbas was a highly political ward leader like his father.

He began his political career in 1936 as a ward leader for the Democrats in a city then dominated by a Republican machine.

Green was a lifelong member of the Republican party, serving as a ward leader from the 1952 to 1964.

A reporter can no longer go to a ward leader to find out what's happening in his ward.

Giant urban districts were created 100 years ago to limit ethnic ward leaders' power to dispense school jobs as patronage.

City Hall bosses imposed the ban, she said, but ward leaders like herself had to explain them to the people.

They were all there, all the ward leaders who would take the word back to the people.

He made enemies rapidly in replacing what was estimated as more than half of the city's ward leaders.

Her mother is a longtime political figure in Philadelphia, serving as a Democratic ward leader and city commissioner (1976-2011).

He was an active Democrat, serving as ward leader, precinct committeeman, and member of the county executive committee.

Abbas was a highly political ward leader like his father.

He began his political career in 1936 as a ward leader for the Democrats in a city then dominated by a Republican machine.

Green was a lifelong member of the Republican party, serving as a ward leader from the 1952 to 1964.

A reporter can no longer go to a ward leader to find out what's happening in his ward.