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Ralph Sidney Locher (July 24 1915 – June 18 2004) was a Romanian-born American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 50th mayor of Cleveland Ohio.Locher was born in Moreni Romania outside Bucharest in 1915. He graduated from Bluffton College and was admitted to the Ohio bar. He became a close associate of Frank J. Lausche later Governor of Ohio and U.S. Senator who nurtured his career first appointing him as secretary of the Ohio State Industrial Commission in 1945.