List of mayors of Portland, Oregon
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This is a list of mayors of the city of Portland, Oregon. Note: under Portland's system of government, members of the City Council (known as Commissioners) have many duties that are generally the domain of a mayor.
The current term for mayor of Portland is four years. Mayoral elections are held in May of US presidential election years (years divisible by four), during the Oregon primary election, with a runoff between the top two vote-getters held in November of the same year should no candidate garner a majority vote in the May election. The mayor-elect takes office the following January.
Contents
List
C | # | Image | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term start | Term end | Political party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hugh O'Bryant (1813–1883) |
7 April 1851 | 5 April 1852 | Independent | [1][2] | ||
2 | A. C. Bonnell (1801–1875) |
5 April 1852 | 15 November 1852 | Independent | |||
3 | Simon B. Marye (c. 1810–1868) |
15 November 1852 | 4 April 1853 | Independent | [3][2] | ||
4 | Josiah Failing (1806–1877) |
4 April 1853 | 15 March 1854 | Independent | [2] | ||
5 | 75px | William S. Ladd (1826–1893) |
15 March 1854 | 2 April 1855 | Democratic | [2] | |
6 | George W. Vaughn (1809–1877) |
2 April 1855 | 7 April 1856 | Independent | [2] | ||
7 | James O'Neill (1824–1913) |
7 April 1856 | 4 November 1857 | Republican | [2] | ||
8 | 75px | William S. Ladd (1826–1893) |
4 November 1857 | 5 April 1858 | Democratic | [2] | |
9 | A. M. Starr (1820–1891) |
5 April 1858 | 4 April 1859 | Republican | [2] | ||
10 | S. J. McCormick (1828–1891) |
4 April 1859 | 2 April 1860 | Democratic | [2] | ||
11 | 75px | G. Collier Robbins (1823–1907) |
2 April 1860 | 1 April 1861 | Independent | [2] | |
12 | 75px | John M. Breck (1828–c. 1875) |
1 April 1861 | 7 April 1862 | Independent | [2] | |
13 | William H. Farrar (1826–1873) |
7 April 1862 | 6 April 1863 | Democratic | [2] | ||
14 | 75px | David Logan (1824–1874) |
6 April 1863 | 4 April 1864 | Republican | [2] | |
15 | 75px | Henry Failing (1834–1898) |
4 April 1864 | 16 November 1866 | Republican | [2] | |
16 | Thomas J. Holmes (1819–1867) |
16 November 1866 | 31 July 1867 | Democratic | [2] | ||
17 | 75px | J. A. Chapman (1821–1885) |
31 July 1867 | 16 June 1868 | Democratic | [2] | |
18 | Hamilton Boyd (1831-1886) |
16 June 1868 | 21 June 1869 | Independent | [2] | ||
19 | Bernard Goldsmith (1832–1901) |
21 June 1869 | 20 June 1871 | Republican | [2] | ||
20 | Philip Wasserman (1828–1895) |
20 June 1871 | 16 June 1873 | Republican | [2] | ||
21 | 75px | Henry Failing (1834–1898) |
16 June 1873 | 21 June 1875 | Republican | [2] | |
22 | 75px | J. A. Chapman (1821–1885) |
21 June 1875 | 18 June 1877 | Democratic | [2] | |
23 | 75px | William Spencer Newbury (1834–1915) |
18 June 1877 | 16 June 1879 | Republican | [2] | |
24 | David P. Thompson (1834–1901) |
16 June 1879 | 19 June 1882 | Republican | [2] | ||
25 | 75px | J. A. Chapman (1821–1885) |
19 June 1882 | 15 June 1885 | Democratic | [2] | |
26 | 75px | John Gates (1827–1888) |
15 June 1885 | 27 April 1888 (died in office) |
Republican | [2][4] | |
27 | 75px | Van B. DeLashmutt (1842–1921) |
2 May 1888 | 15 June 1891 | Republican | [2] | |
28 | 75px | William S. Mason (1832–1899) |
15 June 1891 | 4 June 1894 | Republican | [2] | |
29 | George P. Frank (1852–1896) |
4 June 1894 | 1 June 1896 | Republican | [2] | ||
30 | Sylvester Pennoyer (1831–1902) |
1 June 1896 | 6 June 1898 | People's | [2] | ||
31 | 75px | William S. Mason (1832–1899) |
6 June 1898 | 27 March 1899 (Died in office) |
Republican | ||
32 | W. A. Storey (1854–1917) |
16 May 1899 | 4 June 1900 | Republican | [2][5] | ||
33 | 75px | Henry S. Rowe (1851–1914) |
4 June 1900 | 2 June 1902 | Republican | [2] | |
34 | George Henry Williams (1823–1910) |
2 June 1902 | 5 June 1905 | Democratic | [2] | ||
35 | Harry Lane (1855–1917) |
5 June 1905 | 7 June 1909 | Independent | [2] | ||
36 | Joseph Simon (1851–1935) |
7 June 1909 | 5 June 1911 | Republican | [2] | ||
37 | Allen G. Rushlight (1874–1930) |
5 June 1911 | 2 June 1913 | Republican | [2] | ||
38 | 75px | H. Russell Albee (1867–1950) |
2 June 1913 | 4 June 1917 | Democratic | [2] | |
39 | 75px | George L. Baker (1868–1941) |
4 June 1917 | 2 June[citation needed] 1933 | Democratic | [2] | |
40 | Joseph K. Carson (1891–1956) |
2 June[citation needed] 1933 | 2 June[citation needed] 1941 | Democratic | |||
41 | Earl Riley (1890–1965) |
2 June[citation needed] 1941 | 2 June[citation needed] 1949 | Democratic | |||
42 | Dorothy McCullough Lee (1901–1981) |
2 June[citation needed] 1949 | 2 June[citation needed] 1953 | Republican | |||
43 | Fred L. Peterson (1896–1985) |
2 June[citation needed] 1953 | 2 June[citation needed] 1956 | Republican | |||
44 | Terry Schrunk (1913–1975) |
2 June[citation needed] 1956 | 31 December 1972[citation needed] | Democratic | |||
45 | Neil Goldschmidt (born in 1940) |
1 January[citation needed] 1973 | 3 January 1979 | Democratic | |||
46 | Connie McCready (1921–2000) |
1 January[citation needed] 1979 | 1 January[citation needed] 1981 | Republican | |||
47 | 75px | Frank Ivancie (born 1924) |
3 January[citation needed] 1981 | 3 January[citation needed] 1985 | Democratic | ||
48 | 75px | Bud Clark (born 1931) |
2 January 1985[6] | 1 January[citation needed] 1993 | Independent | ||
49 | Vera Katz (born 1933) |
1 January[citation needed] 1993 | 3 January 2005 | Democratic | |||
50 | 75px | Tom Potter (born 1940) |
3 January 2005 | 1 January 2009 | Independent | ||
51 | 75px | Sam Adams (born 1963) |
1 January 2009 | 1 January 2013 | Democratic | ||
52 | Charlie Hales (born 1956) |
1 January 2013 | Incumbent | Democratic |
The City of Portland mayor's office, in the City Hall, contains a collection of mounted portraits of all the mayors to date. As of November 2014 only two mayors are missing from the collection; William H. Farrar (1862–1863), and Hamilton Boyd (1868–1869).
References
- ↑ Lansing, Jewel. (2003). Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851–2001, p. 26–49.
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