List of mayors of Portland, Oregon
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 typically the domain of a mayor.
The 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.
- Hugh D. O'Bryant (1851–1852)
- Allison C. Bonnell (1852)
- Simon B. Marye (1852–1853)
- Josiah Failing (1853–1854)
- William S. Ladd (1854–1855)
- George W. Vaughn (1855–1856)
- James O'Neill (1856–1857)
- William S. Ladd (1857–1858)
- A. M. Starr (1858–1859)
- S. J. McCormick (1859–1860)
- G. Collier Robbins (1860–1861)
- John M. Breck (1861–1862)
- William H. Farrar (1862–1863)
- David Logan (1863–1864)
- Henry Failing (1864–1865)
- T.J. Holmes (1866–1867)
- J. A. Chapman (1867–1868)
- Hamilton Boyd (1868–1869)
- Bernard Goldsmith (1869–1871)
- P. Wasserman (1871–1873)
- Henry Failing (1873–1875)
- J. A. Chapman (1875–1877)
- William Spencer Newbury (1877–1879)
- David P. Thompson (1879–1881)
- J. A. Chapman (1882–1885)
- John Gates (1885–1888)
- Van B. DeLashmutt (1888–1891)
- William S. Mason (1891–1894)
- George P. Frank (1894–1896)
- Sylvester Pennoyer (1896–1898)
- William S. Mason (1898–1899)
- W. A. Storey (1899–1900)
- Henry S. Rowe (1900–1902)
- George Henry Williams (1902–1905)
- Harry Lane (1905–1909)
- Joseph Simon (1909–1911)
- A. G. Rushlight (1911–1913)
- Harry Russell Albee (1913–1917)
- George Luis Baker (1917–1933)
- Joseph K. Carson, Jr. (1933–1941)
- Earl Riley (1941–1949)
- Dorothy McCullough Lee (1949–1953)
- Fred L. Peterson (1953–1956)
- Terry Doyle Schrunk (1957–1973)
- Neil Goldschmidt (1973–1979)
- Connie McCready (1979–1981)
- Francis J. Ivancie (1981–1985)
- J. E. "Bud" Clark (1985–1993)
- Vera Katz (1993–2005)
- Tom Potter (January 3, 2005 – December 31, 2008)
- Sam Adams (January 1, 2009–present)
[edit] Portland Mayors' Portraits
The City of Portland Mayor's office, in City Hall contains a collection of mounted portraits of all the mayors to date. As of this writing only two Mayors are missing from the Collection; William H. Farrar (1862–1863) and Hamilton Boyd (1868–1869).
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