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Saratha A. Goggins (born 1950/51) is an American politician who served as the first woman mayor of East Cleveland, Ohio.

Biography

Goggins served on the East Cleveland City Council for a very long time and eventually became its president. On September 1, 2004, she was sworn in as mayor of East Cleveland after the resignation of her predecessor who was convicted of racketeering, extortion, mail fraud, and tax evasion, making her the first female and 4th African-American mayor of East Cleveland.

In the October 2005 primary election, running as a Democrat, she was defeated by Eric J. Brewer who earned 54.90% of the vote to her 29.96% after news broke that she had been convicted in May 1983 of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing to death her boyfriend on September 30, 1982. She stated that the stabbing was in self-defense.

References

1. ^ "East Cleveland Mayor Admits to Murder of Boyfriend in 1982". Jet. October 18, 2004. A story in the newspaper at that time did not identify Goggins by name, reporting only that police arrested a 31 year old East Cleveland woman who was screaming as she tried to get into a parked car.
2. ^ "Mayor Defends Her 1982 Conviction". Houston Chronicle. September 26, 2004. The disclosure came after The Plain Dealer obtained a copy of a coroner's report that said Goggins admitted stabbing Price during a fight in his home on Sept. 30, 1982.
3. ^ "Saratha Goggins". ourcampaigns.com.
4. Salvato, Albert (September 1, 2004). "Midwest: Ohio: Mayor Convicted Of Seeking Bribes". The New York Times.
5. Caniglia, John; Ott, Thomas (September 1, 2004). "Onunwor, Still Jailed, To Quit As Mayor". The Plain Dealer.
6. Wagner, Joseph L. (October 25, 2004). "Mayor, Judge Won't Talk About Past Sentence". The Plain Dealer.
7. "Mayor says 1982 stabbing was in self-defense". Mansfield News Journal. September 26, 2004.

• 1950s births
• Living people
• African-American mayors in Ohio
• Mayors of places in Ohio
• Mayors of East Cleveland, Ohio
• 21st-century African-American politicians
• 20th-century African-American politicians
• African-American women mayors