William Case

Office:	Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
Political party:	Republican
Term of office:	1850–1851
Preceded by:	Flavel W. Bingham Flavel W. Bingham Flavel W. Bingham was the mayor of Cleveland in 1849.Bingham was born in New York to Flavel and Fanny White Bingham. He studied law, moved to Cleveland in 1837, and began Collins & Bingham, a law practice. He was elected to the position of city council president in 1845...
Succeeded by:	Abner C. Brownell Abner C. Brownell Abner C. Brownell was the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1852–1854.Brownell was born to Nathan C. and Elizabeth Adams Smith Brownell in Massachusetts where he was locally educated. Brownell moved to Cleveland in the 1840s and began working in the iron and glass industries employed by the W....
Date of birth:	August 10, 1818
Date of death:	April 19, 1862
Profession:	Politician

William Case (August 10, 1818 – April 19, 1862) was an American politician of the Republican party and served as the 12th mayor of Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

 from 1850 and 1851. He was the first Cleveland-born citizen to become mayor.

In his early career, he helped form and became the first president of the Cleveland Library Association in 1846 (later the Case Library). In 1850, he founded the short-lived Cleveland University

Cleveland University

Cleveland University was a short-lived university in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded by Asa Mahan in 1851, the then-recently resigned president of Oberlin College located in nearby Oberlin, Ohio...

. He also served as president of the Cleveland, Ashtabula, and Painesville Railroad, securing the financing allowing the line to complete its Chicago-to-Buffalo route. In 1846, Case was elected to Cleveland City Council

Cleveland City Council

Cleveland City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Cleveland in Ohio. Its members are elected from 19 wards to four-year terms. The number of council members has decreased over the years...

 and served as an alderman from 1847 to 1849. In 1850, Case was elected mayor of Cleveland. In his tenure, Case organized the city workhouse, poorhouse, and house of refuge. He is often credited with establishing the Cleveland nickname, The Forest City

The Forest City

The Forest City is a nickname or alternate toponym for Cleveland, Ohio; Portland, Maine; and Rockford, Illinois in the United States and London, Ontario, in Canada.-Cleveland:...

, as a result of a city-wide fruit-tree planting campaign.