Bernard "Barney" Samuel (March 9, 1880 – January 12, 1954)[1] was a Republican politician who served as the 89th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1941 to 1952.

Samuel took an active role in trying to quell the 1944 transit strike that beset the city.

They distributed more than 100,000 posters in black sections of the city, which read "Keep Your Heads and Your Tempers!

[4] The six-day strike was triggered by the decision of the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC), made under prolonged pressure from the federal government in view of significant labor shortages, to allow black employees of the PTC to hold non-menial jobs, such as motormen and conductors, that were previously reserved for white workers only.

[7] Samuel is buried at Arlington Cemetery suburban Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.