What is Jan Laverty Jones?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Jan Laverty Jones |office = [[List of mayors of Las Vegas|20th]] [[Mayor of Las Vegas]] |term_start = July 1991 |term_end = June 8, 1999 |predecessor = [[Ron Lurie]] |successor = [[Oscar Goodman]] |birth_name = Janis Lyle Laverty |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|3|16}} |birth_place = [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Fletcher Jones {{small|(divorced)}}<br>Dana Blackhurst |education = [[Stanford University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}} }} '''Jan Laverty Jones''' (born '''Janis Lyle Laverty''', later '''Blackhurst'''; March 16, 1949) is an American [[Businessperson|businesswoman]] and [[politician]]. She was mayor of [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]] from 1991 to 1999 and the first woman to serve as mayor of Las Vegas. Jones is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>[http://investor.harrahs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84772&p=irol-govManageBio&ID=144675 Biography]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, harrahs.com; accessed January 7, 2017.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jan Laverty}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American political activists]] [[Category:Mayors of Las Vegas]] [[Category:Politicians from Los Angeles]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] {{US-bio-stub}}