Aldo J. Tatangelo, Sr. (September 16, 1913 - March 7, 2008), was the reform mayor of Laredo, Texas, who served from 1978 to 1990. Tatangelo is often credited with having obtained the paving of the "streets of Laredo" (a term made famous in an old Western song). It was ironic that several major Laredo streets were being resurfaced on the very day of Tatangelo's death. Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor J.C. "Pepe" Martin, Jr.
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- Aldo J. Tatangelo, Sr. (September 16, 1913 - March 7, 2008), was the reform mayor of Laredo, Texas, who served from 1978 to 1990. Tatangelo is often credited with having obtained the paving of the "streets of Laredo" (a term made famous in an old Western song). It was ironic that several major Laredo streets were being resurfaced on the very day of Tatangelo's death. Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor J.C. "Pepe" Martin, Jr. , who, like Martin's father before him, exerted vast powers as a south Texas "political boss" and accrued vast personal wealth. In retirement, Tatangelo became perhaps Laredo's most beloved elderly statesmen. Since Tatangelo vacated City Hall, Laredo in 2006 inaugurated its third mayor, Raul G. Salinas. Son Aldo Tatangelo, Jr. (born April 2, 1945), of Laredo proclaimed that his father "set Laredo free and changed how people thought. He pointed the city in a new direction and wanted it to be open and prosperous. " Previously, he noted, that many in Laredo were "fearful of doing the wrong thing or of getting fired if they voted for the wrong person or if they said or did the wrong thing. " In this sense, "wrong" meant taking a position counter to that of the former power elite class. Tatangelo, Jr, speaking on March 10 at his father's rosary, continued: "My dad and Laredo had a love affair for thirty-five years. They (people of Laredo) loved him, he loved them. They broke the mold when they made Aldo. There'll never be another one. It's interesting when a man can have that kind of a feeling for a city, and the city return it."
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- Aldo Tatangelo, Jr., of Laredo
Linda T. Tatangelo of Grapevine, Texas
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- Tatangelo is credited with having obtained the paving of the majority of the streets of Laredo, Texas.
(4) Tatangelo considered the implementation of the Laredo municipal pension plan his greatest public achievement.
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- Alice Natali DeLong Tatangelo (1921-2001, married 1943-her death)
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- Aldo J. Tatangelo, Sr. (September 16, 1913 - March 7, 2008), was the reform mayor of Laredo, Texas, who served from 1978 to 1990. Tatangelo is often credited with having obtained the paving of the "streets of Laredo" (a term made famous in an old Western song). It was ironic that several major Laredo streets were being resurfaced on the very day of Tatangelo's death. Tatangelo succeeded the scandal-plagued administration of Mayor J.C. "Pepe" Martin, Jr.
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