List of members of the Portland City Council
This is a list of members of the Portland City Council in Oregon, both past and present.[1][2]
From 1913 to 2025, the city operated under a commission form of government, where all 5 members of the council, officially called the City Commission, were elected at-large. The city commission also included the mayor.[3] Beginning in January 2025, the city switched to a mayor-council form of government, with 12 members, not including the mayor, were elected from four geographic districts.[4]
1851-1861
| Session | Mayor | Councilors | ||||||||
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| 1851 |  | Robert Thompson | Shubrick Norris | George A. Barnes | Thomas G. Robinson | L. B. Hastings | ||||
| 1852 |  | W. P. Abrams | A. P. Dennison | Thomas Pritchard | Abell G. Tripp | Hiram Smith | ||||
| Simon B. Marye | Shubrick Norris | .jpg) |  | |||||||
| 1853 | | Robert Thompson |  |  | W. P. Abrams | R. N. McLaren | R. N. Field | Charles B. Pillow | H. W. Davis | Jonas Williams |
| 1854 | | A. M. Starr | James Field Jr. | Shubrick Norris | Thomas Carter | William McMillan | A. D. Fitch | O. J. Backus | A. R. Shipley | James Turnbull |
| 1855 |  | George Kittridge | John Green | H. S. Jacobs | Matthew Patton | Lewis Love | John C. Carson | Thomas Hartness | E. B. Calhoun |  |
| 1856 | .jpg) | Robert Porter | A. D. Shelby | A. B. Elfeldt | A. M. Starr | | William Beck | H. W. Davis | S. M. Smith | James Burke |
| 1857 | | T. J. Holmes |  | Charles Hutchins | P. Hardenburg | N. S. Coon | B. F. Goodwin |  | James M. Blossom | |
| 1858 | | |||||||||
| A. M. Starr | | Alexander P. Ankeny | C. P. Bacon | T. N. Lakin | R. Porter | T. J. Homes | J. C. Carson | William King | C. S. Kingsley | |
| 1859 |  | | J. M. Vansyckle | J. Davidson | A. D. Shelby | M. M. Lucas |  |  | A. C. R. Shaw | John Blanchard |
| 1860 | | John C. Ainsworth | W. L. Higgins | Jacob Stitzel | ||||||
| 1861 |  | John McCraken | F. Harbaugh | W. C. Hull | William M. King | W. L. Higgins | E. R. Scott | William Masters | John S. White | |
| S. E. Barr | ||||||||||
1862-1889
| Year | Mayor | President | Ward | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| 1862 | William H. Farrar | Thomas A. Davis | Thomas J. Holmes | | O. Risley | A. P. Dennison | J. M. Breck | S. Coffin | C. S. Silvers | A. G. Walling | |
| 1863 | O. Risley | N. Williams | |||||||||
| 1863-64 |  | John Sutton | Al Zieber | H. Saxer | Alexander Dodge | John Sutton | I. A. Austin | P. S. Watson | M. M. Lucas | Joseph Knott | David Monastes |
| 1864-65 |  | James W. Cook | John McCracken | A. M. Starr | William H. Bennett | J. J. Hoffman | Thomas Robertson | Thomas Frazer | S.Gilmore | Israel Garden | |
| 1865-66 | P. C. Schuyler | Robert R. Thompson | E. S. Morgan | S. A. Clark | A. Rosenheim | J. P. O. Lownsdale | O. P. S. Plummer | ||||
| 1866-67 |  | Al Zieber | | M. O'Connor | C. Fechheimer | T. J. Carter | J. C. Carson | ||||
| 1867-68 |  | A. C. Ripley | R. Porter |  Lucerne Besser | C. D. Burch | M. F. Mulky | |||||
| 1868-69 | Hamilton Boyd | William Cree | J. M. Breck | Charles Hopkins | |||||||
| 1869-70 |  | C. Bills | W. Moffet | D. C. Lewis | |||||||
| 1870-71 | | J. B. Congle |  | J. M. Drake | |||||||
| 1871-72 |  | George L. Story | E. M. Burton | J. M. Caywood | R. G. Combs | ||||||
| 1872-73 | E. F. Russell |  | |||||||||
| 1873-74 | | G. W. Hoyt | J. H. Lyon | ||||||||
| 1874-75 | Robert R. Thompson | John Catlin | Elijah Corbett | ||||||||
| 1875-76 | | H. D. Sandborn | J. R. Wiley | William H. Andrus |  | E. J. W. Stemme | |||||
| 1876-77 | Thomas Stephens | D. F. Harrington | S. Blumeauer | Noah Lambert | |||||||
| 1877-78 |  | F. Opitz | Joseph Simon | G. W. Yocum | |||||||
| 1878-79 | J. W. Payne | E. H. Stolte | H. Weber | ||||||||
| 1879-80 |  | R. Gerdes | T. L. Nicklin | J. F. Watson | J. S. Keller | ||||||
| 1880-81 | J. S. Raleigh | Henry Hewett | William H. Andrus | J. B. Kellogg | |||||||
| 1881-82 | Charles Homan | W. L. Chittenden | W. B. Honeyman | ||||||||
| 1882-83 | | D. Mackay | J. E. Smith | W. S. Scoggin | W. H. Adams | ||||||
| 1883-84 | R. Gerdes | J. B. Hailey | William H. Andrus | A. F. Sears Jr. | |||||||
| 1884-85 | J. J. Holland | C. M. Forbes | William Fliedner | ||||||||
| 1885-86 |  | J. J. Gallagher | S. Farrell | F. Hacheny | |||||||
| 1886-87 | R. H. Schwab | Tyler Woodward | |||||||||
| 1887-88 | C. Castendeick | ||||||||||
| 1888-89 |  | Tyler Woodward | Richard Hoyt | William Showers | |||||||
1913-2024
| Year | Mayor | Commissioner #1 | Commissioner #2 | Commissioner #3 | Commissioner #4 |
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| 1913 |  |  | Robert Dieck | William L. Brewster | C. A. Bigelow¹ |
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| 1917 | | Asbury Barbur | John M. Mann² | Dan Kellaher³ | |
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| 1919 |  Stanhope C. Pier | ||||
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| 1930 | Earl Riley³ | ||||
| 1931 | Earl Riley | Ralph C. Clyde | |||
| 1932 | A. G. Johnson³ | ||||
| 1933 | .tif.jpg){kind=spacer} | Earl Riley | Ralph C. Clyde† | Ormond R. Bean¹ | J. E. Bennett² |
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| 1939 | William A. Bowes³ | ||||
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| 1941 | Earl Riley | Fred L. Peterson | Kenneth L. Cooper³ | ||
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| 1949 | | Ormond R. Bean | |||
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| 1951 | J. E. Bennet | ||||
| 1952 | Nathan A. Boody³ | ||||
| 1953 | Fred L. Peterson | Stanley Earl | |||
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| 1959 | Mark A. Grayson | ||||
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| 1967 | Stanley Earl† | Mark A. Grayson | .png) | William A. Bowes† | |
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| 1969 | Lloyd Anderson¹ | ||||
| 1970 | Connie McCready** | ||||
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| 1973 | | Mildred Schwab | |||
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| 1979 | Connie McCready |  | |||
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| 1981 | | Margaret Strachan | |||
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| 1985 |  | Dick Bogle | |||
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| 1987 |  | Bob Koch | |||
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| 1991 | Gretchen Kafoury | ||||
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| 1996 | Erik Sten¹ | ||||
| 1997 | Jim Francesconi | ||||
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¹: resigned
²: recalled
³: council member was originally appointed
†: died in office
*: elected mayor during council term
**: appointed mayor during council term
2025-present
| Year | Mayor | President | District | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 2025 | .jpg) |  |  |  | .jpg) | | | .jpg) |  |  |  Angelita Morillo | .jpg) Olivia Clark | .jpg) Mitch Green |  Eric Zimmerman |
References
- ^ Scott, Harvey Whitefield (1890). History of Portland, Oregon : with illustrations and biographical sketches of prominent citizens and pioneers. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & co.
- ^ "City Elected Officials Since 1913". 2015-12-25. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 2025-01-14.
- ^ "Portland Commission Government". www.oregonencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
- ^ "Transition Overview | Portland.gov". www.portland.gov. Retrieved 2025-06-04.