American talk show host Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?

Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is an American television presenter. He is a former soldier, lawyer, Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, news presenter, actor, and musician. He has hosted the tabloid talk show The Jerry Springer Show since its debut in 1991 and debuted the Jerry Springer Podcast in 2015.

Springer was born in Highgate tube station in London, England, while the station was in use as a shelter from German bombing during World War II. He grew up on Chandos Road, East Finchley. His parents, Margot (née Kallmann; a bank clerk) and Richard Springer (owner of a shoe shop), were Jewish refugees who escaped from Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland).

In January 1949, Springer immigrated with his parents to the United States, settling in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, and attended Forest Hills High School. One of his earliest memories about current events was when he was 12 and watching the 1956 Democratic convention on television where he saw and was impressed by John F. Kennedy.

In 1977, he was chosen to serve one year as mayor of Cincinnati by the City Council. Springer could only serve one year as mayor due to a political arrangement at the time (Cincinnati has since changed to direct election of its mayor) that required the Democrats to split the mayoral term with a local centrist group, the Charter Party, with whom the Democrats governed in an electoral alliance.