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Guy W. Selby

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5622656 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guy W. Selby (April 1871 – May 9, 1968) was a Michigan, United States, politician.

Political life

He was elected as the Mayor of the City of Flint in 1909 for the first of two 1 year terms. defeating the incumbent. In the 1910 election, he defeated former mayor Austin D. Alvord.

Post-political life

In 1916, Selby was president of the Genesee County Bar Association.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Guy W. Selby” is american politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Selby, American and politician, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1871, 1968, 1909, 1910—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1871-04-01. For this dossier, Selby, American and politician is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5622656. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1871, 1968, 1909 and 1910.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guy W. Selby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.