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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