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Apr 28, 1959 Maricao, Puerto Rico, United States 65 years old
American mayor
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About Pedro Segarra
- Pedro E.
- Segarra (born April 28, 1959) is a Puerto Rican-American politician and lawyer who served as the 66th mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.
- Prior to becoming mayor, Segarra was president of Hartford's City Council.
- He succeeded former Mayor Eddie Perez who resigned after he was convicted by a state Superior Court jury of bribery and extortion in a political corruption case, though Perez' convictions eventually were reversed by the Connecticut Appellate Court.
- Segarra, who was sworn in as mayor on June 25, 2010 and won re-election on November 1, 2011.
- In 2015, Luke Bronin defeated Segarra for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
- He is Hartford's second mayor of Puerto Rican ancestry and the first openly gay mayor of the city.
- He is also the second openly gay mayor of an American state capital city (David Cicilline of neighboring Providence, Rhode Island was the first).
