This is a list of Mayor

Mayor

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s of Seattle

Seattle, Washington

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, Washington, USA.

On January 14, 1865, the Territorial Legislature approved the incorporation of the town

Town

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 of Seattle. However, following submission of a petition by several of the Town's citizens, Seattle was unincorporated on January 28, 1867. Records of this two year period of municipal government did not survive. During this period, the city was governed by a board of trustees, with Charles C. Terry as its president. The town

Town

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 (now a city

City

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) of Seattle was incorporated a second time on December 2, 1869.

Name	Picture	Elected	Term began	Term ended
Henry A. Atkins		appointed December 2, 1869 elected July 11, 1870	1869	1871
John T. Jordan		elected July 10, 1871	1871	1872
Corliss P. Stone Corliss P. Stone Corliss P. Stone was elected mayor of Seattle in 1872. Prior to election as mayor, Stone had served three terms as a city council member. The street, Stone Way, in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood is named after Stone....		elected July 8, 1872 abandoned office: left for San Francisco February 23, 1873 after allegedly embezzling $15,000	1872	1873 Maddocks took office June 5, 1873: Seattle Mayors, City of Seattle. Accessed online 2009-11-26.
John T. Jordan		appointed	1873	1873
Moses R. Maddocks		Elected	1873	1873
John Collins		elected July 14, 1873	1873	1874
Henry Yesler Henry Yesler Henry L. Yesler was an entrepreneur considered to be Seattle, Washington's first economic father and first millionaire. He arrived in Seattle in 1852 and built a steam-powered sawmill, which provided numerous jobs for those early settlers and Duwamish tribe members...		elected July 13, 1874	1874	1875
Bailey Gatzert Bailey Gatzert Bailey Gatzert was the eighth mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving from 1875 to 1876. He was the first Jewish mayor of Seattle, narrowly missing being the first Jewish mayor of a major American city , and has been the only Jewish mayor of Seattle to date.Gatzert was born in 1829 in Darmstadt,...		elected August 2, 1875	1875	1876
Gideon A. Weed		elected July 10, 1876 and July 9, 1877	1876	1878
Beriah Brown		elected July 8, 1878	1878	1879
Orange Jacobs Orange Jacobs Orange Jacobs was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington.Born near Geneseo, New York, Jacobs moved with his parents to Michigan Territory in 1831....		elected July 14, 1879	1879	1880
Leonard Purley Smith		elected July 12, 1880 and July 11, 1881	1880	1882
Henry G. Struve Henry G. Struve Henry G. Struve was a prominent lawyer, legislator, historian and banker in Seattle, Washington, during the 19th and early 20th centuries...		elected July 10, 1882 and July 9, 1883	1882	1884
John Leary John Leary John Louis "Jack" Leary was a Major League Baseball first baseman and catcher who played with the St. Louis Browns in and .-External links:...		elected July 14, 1884	1884	1885
Henry Yesler		elected July 13, 1885	1885	1886
William H. Shoudy		elected July 12, 1886	1886	1887
Dr. Thomas T. Minor Thomas T. Minor Thomas T. Minor, was a physician, businessman, civic and political leader and the only person to have been elected as mayor of Seattle, Washington and Port Townsend, Washington and founder of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway....		elected July 11, 1887	1887	1888
Robert Moran		elected July 9, 1888 and July 8, 1889	1888	1890
Harry White		elected July 14, 1890 resigned under pressure November 30, 1891.	1890	1891
George W. Hall George W. Hall George W. Hall was the mayor of Seattle from 1891 until 1892. He was appointed on December 9, 1891 following the resignation of Harry White. On March 18, 1892, James T. Ronald was elected as his replacement.-References:...		appointed December 9, 1891	1891	1892
James T. Ronald		elected March 8, 1892	1892	1894
Byron Phelps		elected March 12, 1894	1894	1896
Frank D. Black		elected March 9, 1896 resigned after three weeks in office	1896	1896
W. D. Wood		appointed April 6, 1896 resigned July 1897	1896	1897
Thomas D. Humes		appointed November 19, 1897 and elected March 13, 1900	1897	1904
Richard A. Ballinger Richard Achilles Ballinger Richard Achilles Ballinger was mayor of Seattle, Washington, from 1904–1906 and U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1909–1911.Ballinger was born in Boonesboro, Iowa...		elected March 8, 1904	1904	1906
William Hickman Moore		elected March 6, 1906	1906	1908
John F. Miller John Franklin Miller (Washington representative) John Franklin Miller , an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1917 to 1931. He represented the First Congressional District of Washington as a Republican...		elected March 3, 1908	1908	1910
Hiram C. Gill		elected March 8, 1910 recalled February 9, 1911	1910	1911
George W. Dilling		appointed February 10, 1911	1912
George F. Cotterill George F. Cotterill George Fletcher Cotterill , born in Oxford, England, was an American civil servant and politician. His public career in Seattle and the state of Washington lasted over 40 years; his politics were generally aligned with Progressivism...		elected March 5, 1912	1912	1914
Hiram C. Gill		elected March 3, 1914	1914	1918
Ole Hanson Ole Hanson Ole Hanson was an American politician who served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1918 to 1919. Hanson became a national figure promoting law and order when he took a hardline position during the 1919 Seattle General Strike...		elected March 5, 1918 resigned August 28, 1919 after several months out of town	1918	1919
C. B. Fitzgerald		appointed August 28, 1919	1919	1920
Hugh M. Caldwell		elected March 2, 1920	1920	1922
Edwin J. Brown		elected May 2, 1922 and March 4, 1924	1922	1926
Bertha Knight Landes Bertha Knight Landes Bertha Knight Landes was the first female mayor of a major American city. Landes served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1926 to 1928. She was born in Ware, Massachusetts to Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter. Her father, a veteran of the Union Army, moved the family to Worchester in...		elected March 9, 1926	1926	1928
Frank E. Edwards		elected March 6, 1928 and March 4, 1930 recalled July 13, 1931	1928	1931
Robert H. Harlin		appointed July 14, 1931	1931	1932
John F. Dore		elected March 8, 1932	1932	1934
Charles L. Smith		elected March 6, 1934	1934	1936
John F. Dore		elected March 3, 1936 became gravely ill and was relieved of office April 13, 1938, already a lame duck after the 1938 election. He died five days later.	1936	1938
Arthur B. Langlie		elected March 8, 1938 appointed to take office early, April 27, 1938, after Dore's death. elected March 5, 1940 resigned January 11, 1941, to become Governor of Washington	1938	1941
John E. Carroll		appointed January 27, 1941	1941	1941
Earl Millikin		elected March 4, 1941	1941	1942
William F. Devin		elected March 3, 1942, March 7, 1944, March 5, 1946, and March 2, 1948	1942	1952
Allan Pomeroy		elected March 4, 1952	1952	1956
Gordon S. Clinton		elected March 6, 1956 and March 8, 1960	1956	1964
James d'Orma Braman James d'Orma Braman James d'Orma "Dorm" Braman was the 45th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1964 to 1969. Previously, mayors were elected for a term of four years, but because of a change in the date of election to odd-numbered years, Braman served five and a half years.-Biography:He was born in Lorimor, Iowa, on...		elected March 10, 1964 resigned March 23, 1969, to accept an appointment as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transportation United States Department of Transportation The United States Department of Transportation is a federal Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with transportation. It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967...  in the Nixon administration.	1964	1969
Floyd C. Miller Floyd C. Miller Floyd C. Miller served on the Seattle City Council 1956–1969, after which he was interim mayor of Seattle, Washington for nine months in 1969, filling out the term of James d'Orma Braman, who had been appointed Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.-Notes:...		appointed March 23, 1969	1969	1969
Wesley C. Uhlman Wesley C. Uhlman Wesley Carl Uhlman was the 47th mayor of Seattle.-Biography:He attended Aberdeen High School, Seattle Pacific College, and the University of Washington....		elected November 4, 1969 and November 6, 1973 survived recall attempt on July 1, 1975	December 1, 1969	January 1, 1978
Charles Royer Charles Royer Charles Royer was the 48th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1978 to 1990. After serving as mayor of Seattle, Royer became the director of the Harvard Institute of Politics.-Career as a reporter:...		elected November 8, 1977, November 3, 1981, and November 5, 1985	January 1, 1978	January 1, 1990
Norman B. Rice Norm Rice Norman Blann Rice was the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving two terms from 1989-1997. Rice was Seattle's first, and to date only, African-American mayor.-Early life:...		elected November 7, 1989	January 1, 1990	January 1, 1998
Paul Schell Paul Schell Paul Schell, born Paul Schlachtenhaufen on October 8, 1937, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, was the 50th mayor of Seattle, Washington. His four-year term as mayor began on January 1, 1998....		elected November 4, 1997	January 1, 1998	January 1, 2002
Gregory J. Nickels Greg Nickels Gregory J. "Greg" Nickels was the 51st mayor of Seattle, Washington. He took office on January 1, 2002 and was reelected to a second term in 2005. In August 2009, Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor, failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election, and...		elected November 6, 2001 and November 8, 2005	January 1, 2002	January 1, 2010
Michael McGinn		elected November 3, 2009	January 1, 2010