List of mayors of Seattle Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Mayor of Seattle

Incumbent Ed Murray since January 1, 2014
Style	The Honorable
Term length	4 years
Inaugural holder	Henry A. Atkins
Formation	January 14, 1865 December 2, 1869
Website	http://www.seattle.gov/mayor

This is a list of mayors of Seattle, Washington.

On January 14, 1865, the Territorial Legislature approved the incorporation of the town 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 (now a city) of Seattle was incorporated a second time on December 2, 1869. A new city charter that was approved by the city's voters in 1946 lengthened the term of office for mayors from two years to four years, starting with the 1948 elections.

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Name	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	elected July 8, 1872 abandoned office: left for San Francisco February 23, 1873 after allegedly embezzling $15,000	1872	1873
John T. Jordan	appointed	1873	1873
Moses R. Maddocks	Elected	1873	1873
John Collins	elected July 14, 1873	1873	1874
Henry Yesler	elected July 13, 1874	1874	1875
Bailey Gatzert	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	elected July 14, 1879	1879	1880
Leonard Purley Smith	elected July 12, 1880 and July 11, 1881	1880	1882
Henry G. Struve	elected July 10, 1882 and July 9, 1883	1882	1884
John Leary	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	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	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 J. Humes	appointed November 19, 1897 and elected March 13, 1900	1897	1904
Richard A. Ballinger	elected March 8, 1904	1904	1906
William Hickman Moore	elected March 6, 1906	1906	1908
John F. Miller	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	elected March 5, 1912	1912	1914
Hiram C. Gill	elected March 3, 1914	1914	1918
Ole Hanson	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	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	elected March 10, 1964 resigned March 23, 1969, to accept an appointment as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transportation in the Nixon administration.	1964	March 23, 1969
Floyd C. Miller	appointed March 23, 1969	March 23, 1969	December 1, 1969
Wesley C. Uhlman	elected November 4, 1969 and November 6, 1973 survived recall attempt on July 1, 1975	December 1, 1969	January 1, 1978
Charles Royer	elected November 8, 1977, November 3, 1981, and November 5, 1985	January 1, 1978	January 1, 1990
Norman B. Rice	elected November 7, 1989 and November 2, 1993	January 1, 1990	January 1, 1998
Paul Schell	elected November 4, 1997	January 1, 1998	January 1, 2002
Gregory J. Nickels	elected November 6, 2001 and November 8, 2005	January 1, 2002	January 1, 2010
Michael McGinn	elected November 3, 2009	January 1, 2010	January 1, 2014
Ed Murray	elected November 5, 2013	January 1, 2014	present

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