Draft of a story

I have been writing a short story by hand, into a journal. Here are the pages I have written so far. Expect to see the story in typewritten and proofread form sometime soon.

Monaghan pt. 2

It appears that my first judgement of Thomas J. Monaghan, the mayor of Lancaster who coerced kickback money from the president of an engineering firm, was hasty. The scandal was supposedly a single stain on a beloved man's career. 

He was born on 26 July 1914 to Thomas J. Monaghan and Mary Monaghan (whose maiden name I have yet to find) in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. He served in the U. S. Navy between 1942 and 1945, during the Second World War. In 1944 he married a nurse named Sylvia Krick, and they had three children, Thomas Jr., Charles and Mary. The union lasted until Monaghan's death in 1992.

He was a lifelong Democrat and served as mayor for three terms, two of them consecutive. He first ran for the position in 1953 but lost to Kendig C. Bare, a Republican. He ran again in 1957, against Harold W. Budding, and won his first term. In 1961 he ran for reëlection against George Coe and lost again. In 1965 he ran against Jack F. Tracy and won a second term. In 1969 he ran for a third term, against Daniel S. Templeton of the Republican Party and William L. Hershey of the Constitutional Party, and defeated both.

All of his terms were characterised by reconstruction efforts of buildings, facilities and streets across Lancaster, and during his 1965 term he convinced the Lancaster government to switch to a "strong-mayor" system (in the words of many a newspaper clipping). He was so beloved by the public that, even after he was indicted for the extortion charge, 570 people attended his farewell dinner (his term had expired shortly beforehand) because they "believed Monaghan left the city a better place than when he came".