Herb Pfuhl

Herbert Pfuhl Jr. (April 25, 1928 – August 18, 2011) was an American politician and teacher. Pfuhl was the longest serving Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in the municipality's history, serving six terms as head of the city from 1971 to 1977 and again from 1982 to his retirement in 1993.

Pfuhl faced major challenges during his two-decade long career as the elected chief of Johnstown, including population decline, the 1977 Johnstown flood and the collapse of the steel industry, which included one of the city's biggest employers, Bethlehem Steel. Pfuhl's father, Herbert L. Pfuhl, moved to Johnstown from Berlin, Germany. He then earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. The flood heavily damaged the facilities of Bethlehem Steel, which was Johnstown's major employer at the time, with 12,000 employees during pre-flood 1977.

Pfuhl lost his re-election bid in 1977 to Democrat Charles "Kutch" Tomljanovic, largely due to the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood, which proved one of the biggest challenges of his political career.

Pfuhl remained out of office for just one term before being re-elected as mayor in the 1981 election and re-took the mayor's office in 1982. The appointment made Weaver the first female police chief in Pennsylvania. and remaining in office until 1996

Pfuhl died at Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on August 19, 2011, aged 83.