While Ewing is Omaha's first elected Black mayor, the Omaha World-Herald reported that then-City Council president Fred Conley, who is Black, briefly became the city's acting mayor in 1988.

Before this week’s mayoral election, Omaha was the nation’s sixth most populated city with a Republican mayor, where Mayor Jean Stothert served three terms and sought a fourth. Ewing’s win ...

Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican seeking reelection in one of her party’s few big-city strongholds, was supposed to be unbeatable. She had won her 2021 reelection ...

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an area that contains all of the city’s Black-majority precincts—with that, Ewing’s election is significant because he will be the first Black mayor of Omaha. Of course, as alluded to ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha’s mayor-elect started as an Omaha Police officer, elevated to the position of Deputy Chief, then moved int o politics, becoming the Douglas County Treasurer.

Omaha is considered a blue dot in the red state of Nebraska and now the city will have a new Democratic mayor. John Ewing, Jr., ousted a Republican incumbent and will be the first Black mayor.

Ewing, who is also a former deputy chief of police for Omaha, will become the city’s first Black mayor. He denied Stothert a chance at an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office in an ...

Voters in Omaha, Nebraska just elected their first Black mayor, Democrat John Ewing Jr., in a historic ... The New York Times, describing Omaha as “a politically divided city that has outsize ...

Voters in Omaha were making history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor. The race between Mayor Jean ...

Democrat challenger John Ewing defeated incumbent Republican Omaha mayor Jean Stothert ... by becoming the first Black mayor of Nebraska’s largest city, while Stothert was denied a fourth ...