John Cranley, the former mayor of Cincinnati, is now seeking the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In high school, John Cranley got a bit role in a play hoping to meet girls. Instead, it helped launch him on a path that led him to serve as mayor of Cincinnati and eventually seek the Democratic nomination for Ohio governor.
Cranley, now 47, has since spent most of his adult life in public service, both in elected office and through efforts such as fighting to free wrongfully convicted Ohioans.Cranley grew up in Price Hill, a middle-class neighborhood on Cincinnati’s West Side. His father, an investment planner, fought in the Vietnam War; his mother worked as a librarian.
“The one thing that is consistent with him is that he has always, as long as I’ve known him, cared about and believed that it was the responsibility of government and of politics to take care of the people who are most marginalized,” Hill said. Cranley told cleveland.com he “felt very, very deep anger” toward Chabot, as he felt “this guy who was being funded by all the wealthiest interests in the country was kicking poor people when they were down.”
A few months later, on April 7, 2001, 19-year-old Timothy Thomas was shot by a Cincinnati police officer. Two days later, chaos erupted at a City Council’s Law and Public Safety Committee meeting, chaired by Cranley, kicking off four days of rioting.
“He was going into the prisons, working the cases, arguing them in court,” Godsey said in an interview. “He just had his sleeves rolled up. He was deep in the muck.”
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