M. Leslie Downing

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M. Leslie Downing was the mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. On November 11, 1951, Downing became the first to use the direct distance dialing telephone facility in 1951 to Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California.[1]

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  1. ^ 1951: First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call, AT&T. Accessed June 8, 2007. "Nov. 10, 1951: Mayor M. Leslie Downing of Englewood, N.J., picked up a telephone and dialed 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reached Mayor Frank Osborne in Alameda, Calif. The mayors made history as they chatted in the first customer-dialed long-distance call, one that introduced area codes."