List of mayors of Vancouver, Washington

The following is a list of mayors of Vancouver, Washington from 1858 on. The city of Vancouver was incorporated on January 23, 1857.

#	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Notes
1	Levi Farnsworth	1858
2	H. F. Stryker	1859
3	S. W. Brown	1861
4	A. G. Tripp	1865
5	Joseph M. Fletcher	1869
6	O. A. Freeman	1871
7	Abel G. Tripp [lower-alpha 1]	1873	September 17, 1875
8	Louis Sohns	1875
9	Dr Randolph Smith	1881
10	Randolph Smith	1883
11	J. R. Smith	1885
12	Charles Brown	1887
13	Louis Sohns	1889
14	J. R. Smith	1890
15	W. Byron Daniels	1891
16	G. W. Stapleton	1894
17	William Hoyt Brewster	1897
18	A. B. Eastham	1898
19	A. L. Johnson	1900
20	A. B. Eastham	1901
21	L. B. Clough	1903
22	E. G. Crawford	1904
23	Joseph R. Harvey	1906
24	E. M. Green	1907
25	John Phillip Kiggins	1908		1st Term
26	C. S. Irwin	1911
27	Henry Drass	1913
28	Milton Evans	1914
29	G. R. Percival [lower-alpha 2]	1918	1920
30	John Phillip Kiggins	1920		2nd Term
31	B. E. Allen	1925
32	John Phillip Kiggins	1927		3rd Term
33	Edward A. Hamilton [lower-alpha 3]	20 May 1935[2]	31 December 1935	Was victim in a car accident, and finally passed away on New Years Eve of 1935.
34	C. Art Pender [lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]	1936	1936	Supposedly hated the job. Resigned after 8 months.
35	Joseph Powell Breckel [lower-alpha 4]	1936		Chose not to run for re-election.
36	John Phillip Kiggins	1937	1938[3]	4th Term
37	A. N. Stanley	1939
38	John A. Hogg	1942
39	Fred W. Sinclair	1944
40	V. B. Anderson	1948
41	Ralph E. Carter	1952
42	Robert S. McCall	June 1954[4]
43	Roy W. Adams	1955
44	Henry L. Schumacher	1956
45	Irving A. Jensen	1958
46	P. L. "Bob" Wilson	1960
47	Rudolph Luepke	1962
48	Robert D. McMullen	1966
49	Albert C. Angelo	1967
50	Irving C. Jensen	1969
51	Lloyd Stromgren	1972
52	James Gallagher	1974
53	Jim Justin	1978	1984[5]
54	Bryce Seidl	1984
55	Bruce Hagensen	1988
56	Royce Pollard	1996
57	Tim Leavitt	2010
58	Anne McEnerny-Ogle	2018

See also: List of mayors of Vancouver, British Columbia

Notes

1. Tripp died in office on September 17, 1875.^[1][2]
2. Percival disappeared October 17, 1920. His body was found November 22, 1920.^[2]
3. Hamilton was in a traffic accident in late 1935 and died in January 1936. City councilman Pender was chosen by his fellow councillors to be mayor until the next election.^[3]
4. Pender disliked being mayor and resigned within a few months of assuming the office. Breckel took over, as no other city councillor wanted to be mayor.^[3]

References

1. Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Volume XXXI: History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana 1845-1889. San Francisco: The History Company. p. 365. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
2. Landerholm, Carl (1960). Vancouver Area Chronology 1784-1958 (PDF) (2002 ed.). Vancouver, WA: Clarke County Historical Society. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
3. Jollota, Pat (2012). Legendary Locals of Vancouver, Washington. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 9781467100014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
4. "New Mayor Named". The Daily Chronicle. Centralia, WA. 10 June 1954.
5. Damewood, Andrea (9 December 2009). "Justin, Ex-mayor of Vancouver, Dies". The Columbian. Vancouver, WA. Retrieved 6 February 2015.