M. Leslie Denning
Melvin Leslie Denning (1895–1986) was the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. On November 11, 1951, Denning became the first to use the long-distance direct distance dialing telephone facility in 1951 to contact Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California.[1][2]
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- ^ The mosquito crusades: a history of ... - Gordon M. Patterson - Google Books
- ^ 1951: First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call, AT&T. Accessed June 8, 2007. "Nov. 10, 1951: Mayor M. Leslie Downing [sic] of Englewood, N.J., picked up a telephone and dialed 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reached Mayor Frank Osborne in Alameda, Calif. The mayors made history as they chatted in the first customer-dialed long-distance call, one that introduced area codes."
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