Monday, March 17, 2014 - Mayor Bill Gluba

Mayor Bill Glub Bio

Bill Gluba was born in Davenport, Iowa on October 7, 1942. He was a second-generation Irish-American, the son of hardworking parents of modest means. He would be the first of the Gluba family in America to go to college.

His education, first at St. Ambrose Academy [now Assumption High School], and later at St. Ambrose University, deeply influenced his thinking and started him on a life journey in pursuit of social justice, equality and civil rights. Bill went on to earn a BA from St. Ambrose and a Masters Degree in State and Local Government from the University of Iowa.

Bill was active in the civil rights movement. He took part in the historic march on Washington in 1963 and has campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment.

He was elected to the Iowa General Assembly in 1970. He then won a seat in the Iowa Senate in 1972 and was twice elected to the State Senate. Bill was the only Democrat elected to the all Republic Scott County Board of Supervisors in 1976. In 1978 he was elected its Chairman. In 2007, Bill was elected the sixty-fifth Mayor of Davenport, Iowa.

Bill Gluba and his wife Trish have been married 42 years, raised 5 children, 2 of whom make Davenport their home, and now are the proud grandparents of 3 grand children.

(Biography taken from Mayor's Office, City of Davenport website.)