Victor Hugo "Vic" Schiro (May 6, 1904 – August 29, 1992), was an American politician who served on the New Orleans City Council and as Mayor from 1961 to 1970.

Brown Moore, a decorated World War II veteran who later ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1956 on the intraparty ticket of Fred Preaus.

A survey of seven selected black precincts showed that Schiro received only 3.3 percent of the African American vote in the runoff with Duplantier.

Schiro was noted for his "open door" policy in City Hall, allowing almost anyone (including civil rights leaders) to speak to the mayor.

He closed public swimming pools rather than desegregate them and had the Reverend A. L. Davis arrested when the civil rights leader attempted to meet with Schiro in the mayor's office.

He expanded the existing criminal justice campus, located at the intersection of Tulane Avenue and Broad Street in Mid-City, by building a new police and municipal courts complex.

His administration presided over rapid suburban-style growth in the newly developing Algiers and New Orleans East districts, and constructed new roads, regional libraries and police and fire stations to accommodate this expansion.

Schiro later travelled to Washington, D.C., to lend his support to obtaining congressional legislation that would give storm victims a $5,000 loan forgiveness package.

Also in the running was perennial mayoral candidate Addison Roswell Thompson, a taxicab operator and a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Mayor Schiro considered the arrival of the New Orleans Saints professional football team and the beginning of plans to build the Louisiana Superdome to be two of the foremost achievements of his administration.

The vigorous promotion by local businessman Dave Dixon, and the support of Governor John McKeithen, also assisted Schiro in his quest for the Superdome.

This attempt got as far as recommending a site in New Orleans East; a man-made island was to be created south of I-10 and north of U.S. Route 90 in a bay of Lake Pontchartrain.

One of Schiro's final acts in office was to reinstall the Battle of Liberty Place Monument, which honored a failed coup by the paramilitary White League of the sitting Republican governor, William Pitt Kellogg, who supported voting rights for Blacks.