List of mayors of Portland, Oregon
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- See also: Government of Portland, Oregon
This is a list of mayors that have been employed by 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.
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William S. Ladd
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Henry Failing
- 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)
- J.M. Breck (1861)-1862)
- W.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)
- W.S. Newbury (1877-1879)
- David P. Thompson (1879-1881)
- J.A. Chapman (1882-1885)
- John Gates (1885-1888)
- Van B. DeLashmutt (1888-1891)
- W.S. Mason (1891-1894)
- George P. Frank (1894-1896)
- Sylvester Pennoyer (1896-1898)
- W.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 (2005-)
