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 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.
- 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)
- Thomas J. Holmes (1866–1867)
- J. A. Chapman (1867–1868)
- Hamilton Boyd (1868–1869)
- Bernard Goldsmith (1869–1871)
- Philip 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)
- Allen G. Rushlight (1911–1913)
- H. 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 – December 31, 2012)
- Charlie Hales (January 1, 2013 – present)
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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