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Henry A. Atkins was appointed the first mayor of Seattle by the Territorial Legislature, and was elected to the office on July 11, 1870. [9] [10] A new city charter, the Freeholders Charter, was adopted in 1890 and extended the mayor's term in office from one year to two years, but barred consecutive terms.
Charles Theodore Royer (August 22, 1939 – July 26, 2024) was an American news reporter and politician who served as 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 .
University of Washington, Seattle (BA, MPA) Norman Blann Rice (born May 4, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington , serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. Rice was Seattle 's first elected African-American mayor.
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SEATTLE – Seattle saw its first snow of the season this weekend as rounds of winter weather pelted Washington state, part of a multiday atmospheric river event. Flurries were flying around ...
Jenny Durkan was born in Seattle on May 19, 1958. She was raised in a large Irish Catholic family of eight siblings. The family lived on Mercer Island in the mid-1950s [10] and Bellevue in the early 1960s, [11] before settling in rural Issaquah during a time "when there [wasn't] any development."
A late 2008 poll of likely Seattle voters reflected dissatisfaction with the incumbent mayor, showing that 31% approved of Nickels's performance as mayor while 57% disapproved. [5] Nickels' low popularity numbers did not recover by August 2009, when he was defeated in the primary election in his bid for a third term as Seattle's mayor.
Gordon Stanley Clinton (April 13, 1920 – November 19, 2011) was the 43rd mayor of Seattle. [2] After defeating incumbent Mayor Allen Pomeroy in a close election in 1956, Clinton served two terms, from 1956 to 1964.