John Purroy Mitchel, the youngest person to be elected mayor of New York City, brought the credit union movement to the nation's largest metropolis 100 years ago.
The boy mayor, as he was nicknamed, was elected as a reformer who earned national acclaim for battling corruption, cutting government waste, improving the city's finances and devising the nation's first zoning plan that shaped Manhattan's iconic skyline.
While serving as mayor from 1914 to 1917, he became concerned about loan sharks charging obscene interest rates on money borrowed by city workers.
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