Bruce Hoblitzell was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

 from 1957 to 1961. He was born and raised in Louisville and graduated from what is now duPont Manual Magnet High School

DuPont Manual Magnet High School

duPont Manual High School is a public magnet secondary school located in the Old Louisville neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, USA and serving students in grades 9–12. It is a part of the Jefferson County Public School District...

 and worked as a real estate agent and businessman. He was elected sheriff of Jefferson County

Jefferson County, Kentucky

As of the census of 2000, there were 693,604 people, 287,012 households, and 183,113 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 305,835 housing units at an average density of...

 in 1953. On November 5, 1957 he was elected mayor on the Democratic Party

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 ticket, defeating Republican Robert B. Diehl by about ten thousand votes. He was nicknamed "Mr. Hobby".

Hoblitzell was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.