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List of mayors of Carrboro, North Carolina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6627465 ↗
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The mayor of Carrboro is the presiding member of the governing body of Carrboro, North Carolina, United States. The office has been occupied since the town's incorporation as the Town of Venable in 1911. The town council is composed of the mayor, who serves a term of two years, and six council members serving staggered terms of four years.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, mayors and Carrboro is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of mayors of Carrboro, North Carolina” 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.