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Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 12:00 a.m. Pacific

Mayors of Seattle
Seattle's first mayor, Henry Atkins, was appointed by the territorial Legislature pending the first city election scheduled for July 1870. Here are the mayors who followed, the date their term began and their political party.

John Jordan, 1871, no party

Corliss Stone, 1872, Republican

John Jordan, 1873, no party

Moses Maddocks, 1873, Republican

John Collins, 1873, Democrat

Henry Yesler, 1874, Republican

Bailey Gatzert, 1875, Independent.

Gideon Weed, 1876, no party

Beriah Brown, 1878, People's Ticket

Orange Jacobs, 1879, Republican

Levi Smith, 1880, Republican

Henry Struve, 1882, Republican

John Leary, 1884, Business Men's Ticket

Henry Yesler, 1885, Republican.

William Shoudy, 1886, People's Party

Thomas T. Minor, 1887, Republican

Robert Moran, 1888, Republican

Harry White, 1890, Republican.

George Hall, 1891, Republican

James Ronald, 1892, Democrat

Byron Phelps, 1894, Republican.

Frank Black, 1896, Republican

W.D. Wood, 1896, Republican

Thomas Humes, 1897, Republican

Richard Ballinger, 1904, Republican

William Hickman Moore, 1906, Democrat

John Miller, 1908, Republican

Hiram Gill, 1910, Republican

(Nonpartisan elections were established in the 1910 city charter.)

George Dilling, 1911

George Cotterill, 1912

Hiram Gill, 1914

Ole Hanson, 1918

C.B. Fitzgerald, 1919

Hugh Caldwell, 1920

Edwin Brown, 1922

Bertha Landes, 1926

Frank Edwards, 1928

Robert Harlin, 1931

John Dore, 1932

Charles Smith, 1934

John Dore, 1936

Arthur Langlie, 1938

John Carroll, 1941

Earl Millikin, 1941

William Devin, 1942

Allan Pomeroy, 1952

Gordon Clinton, 1956

J.D. "Dorm" Braman, 1964

Floyd Miller, 1969

Wes Uhlman, 1969

Charles Royer, 1978

Norm Rice, 1990

Paul Schell, 1998


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