Jack Young

Jack Young (born on 26. June 1954 is) an American politician of the Democratic Party and in 2019 the mayor of the city since April 2, Baltimore . Young was first elected to the Baltimore City Hall in 1996 to represent the city's second district. In 2010 he became Council President and in 2019 he succeeded his predecessor Catherine Pugh as Mayor.

Life

Young graduated from Northern High School in Baltimore and attended Baltimore City Community College. He worked at the Baltimore Johns Hopkins Hospital in the cafeteria and in the hospital shop, then also in the archive, which he helped digitize. As a council member he represented the 2nd district from 1996 to 2003, when the boundaries of the city districts were redrawn. From 2003 until his appointment as council president, he represented the 12th district.

As mayor, Young campaigned for the safety of immigrants even with unclear residence status, in particular he refused to prosecute immigrants by agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a unit of the US federal police, which he refused to cooperate with.

Call to the population not to shoot at each other anymore because of the Corona crisis

Young caused a worldwide stir in March 2020 by calling on the population to stop shooting at each other because the city's hospital beds were needed for corona patients. There had been more recent shootings in Baltimore, with numerous injuries. The saying was quoted in the major media around the world and has since appeared repeatedly on social networks.

personal data
SURNAME	Young, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1954