four grandchildren, identical twin boys and two granddaughters. They also helped raise a niece (Rebecca Keeney (Maldonado) (Husband Jorge) and a nephew Nathan Keeney (Paola) when Gena’s oldest sister died in a car crash in 1987. Rebecca and Nathan have three children total. Bill is a published author and co-owner of the blog, The Jaxon and of the local magazine, Edible. Gena retired from nursing when John was elected Mayor to care for their children, and for her mother. Delaney graduated law school and passed the Florida Bar exam in 1981 and was hired by then State Attorney Ed Austin, becoming Austin's Chief Assistant State Attorney in 1985. He was the youngest Chief Assistant of the 20 judicial circuits in the state at the time, and still was when he left the courthouse in 1991. Austin became a second father figure and a role model to Delaney and to many of the thousands who worked for Austin. Austin was one of the most influential figures in Jacksonville history. When Austin was elected Mayor of Jacksonville in 1991, Delaney became the city's General Counsel for two years, and served as Austin's chief of staff for two years. Delaney ran for mayor himself in 1995 when Austin declined to seek a second term. Austin endorsed Delaney. Mayor of Jacksonville In 1995, Delaney defeated former Mayors Jake Godbold and Tommy Hazouri to become Mayor of the City of Jacksonville, Florida, serving two consecutive terms from 1995 to 2003. The City of Jacksonville and County of Duval were merged into a consolidated city/county government in the 1960’s, retaining the moniker of Jacksonville. The city is the largest in land area in the continental United States, and approximately the 12th largest city in population in the country. He was the first Republican elected to the position since 1888. Other than when the City and County were Consolidated into a unified city/county government, he is the only Jacksonville Mayor to run without opposition since the city was formed in the 1820’s. That election was in 1999, when he ran unopposed for his second term. He was succeeded by John Peyton in July 2003. In the same 1995 election, Nat Glover, a Democrat. was elected Sheriff, the first African American Sheriff elected in Florida since Reconstruction. Glover, despite being massively outspent, defeated the two major party endorsed candidates in the jungle primary (where all candidates, regardless of