List of mayors of Portland, Oregon

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.

William S. Mason
  • 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)

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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