United States Conference of Mayors

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The United States Conference of Mayors is a nonpartisan organization founded in 1932. Its membership consists of cities in the United States with populations of 30,000 or more. In 2006, it counted 1,139 such cities. Each city is represented in the Conference by its mayor.

The organization emerged from the efforts of depression-era mayors to lobby the federal government for aid. After the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover, the Conference wrote its charter.