 Under the new mayor-council charter of 1954, Schiro was elected councilman-at-large.When deLesseps Story Morrison, resigned his position as mayor in 1961 to become United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the city council elected Schiro, then the at-large councilman, as the interim mayor.Theodore M. Hickey became the interim at-large council member but returned to the Louisiana State Senate in 1963, where he remained until 1984.