Samuel Francis Adams is an American politician in Portland,Oregon. Adams was mayor of Portland from 2009 to 2012 and previously served on the Portland City Council. Adams was the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city.
The mayor of Portland,Oregon is the official head of the city of Portland,Oregon,United States. The officeholder is elected for a four-year term and has no term limits. By law,all elections in Portland are nonpartisan. The current mayor is Ted Wheeler,who has served since 2017,and was first elected in the 2016 election.
The government of Portland,Oregon is based on a city commission government system. Elected officials include the mayor,commissioners,and a city auditor. The mayor and commissioners are responsible for legislative policy and oversee the various bureaus that oversee the day-to-day operation of the city. Portland began using a commission form of government in 1913 following a public vote on May 3 of that year. Each elected official serves a four-year term,without term limits. Each city council member is elected at-large.
Steven Novick is a former American politician,attorney,and activist from the U.S. state of Oregon. Most recently he served a four-year term as a Portland City Commissioner –a member of the City Council of Portland –from January 2013 to January 2017. He was elected in May 2012 and assumed office on January 1,2013. In 2008,he ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for the United States Senate,for the seat then held by Republican Gordon Smith,but narrowly lost to Oregon House speaker Jeff Merkley. On the Portland city council,he was in charge of the city's transportation department,among other responsibilities. Novick ran for re-election to the city council in 2016 but lost to Chloe Eudaly. Starting in 2018,he works as an attorney for Oregon Department of Justice.
Dan Saltzman is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a commissioner on the City Council of Portland in Portland,Oregon,from 1999 through the end of 2018. As of 2017,he had served longer on the Council than any other person since 1969.
Amanda Fritz is a British-American politician and retired psychiatric nurse from the U.S. state of Oregon. Before being elected to Portland's City Council in 2008,Fritz was a neighborhood activist and seven-year member of the Portland Planning Commission. She was also the first candidate to win public financing under Portland's Clean Elections system in 2006,though she lost to incumbent Dan Saltzman in the first round of that year's election.
Edward Tevis Wheeler is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Portland,Oregon since 2017. He was Oregon State Treasurer from 2010 to 2016.
On Tuesday,November 6,2012,an election was held in Portland,Oregon,to elect the mayor. Charlie Hales was elected,defeating Jefferson Smith. Incumbent mayor Sam Adams did not seek a second term.
Nicholas Stuyvesant Fish was an American politician and lawyer who served as a Commissioner of Portland,Oregon from 2008 to 2020. A Democrat,Fish worked with Portland Parks &Recreation,the Portland Housing Bureau,and the Bureau of Environmental Services.
Deborah Kafoury is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Jo Ann A. Hardesty is an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who served as a Portland City commissioner from 2019 to 2022. She previously served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1995 until 2001.
Clover "Chloe" Delight Esther Eudaly (1969/1970) is an American politician from Oregon who served as Portland's City Commissioner from 2017 to 2021. Eudaly lost her November 2020 re-election bid to Mingus Mapps.
On May 19,2020 and November 3,2020,elections were held in Portland,Oregon,to elect the mayor.
Carmen Rubio is an American politician and non-profit executive in the U.S. state of Oregon who is currently a Portland City Commissioner,having taken office on the Portland City Council in late December 2020. She had previously served as the executive director of the Latino Network since 2009.
Starting in May 2020,protests following the murder of George Floyd were held in the city of Portland,Oregon,concurrent with protests in other cities in the United States and around the world. By July 2020,many of the protests,which had been held every day since May 28,drew more than 1,000 participants. Protests continued into August,September,and October 2020,often drawing hundreds.
Loretta Smith is an American politician and businesswoman who served as a Multnomah County commissioner from 2011 to 2018. She ran unsuccessful campaigns for Portland City Council in 2018 and 2020. Smith was a candidate for Oregon's 6th congressional district in the 2022 election,a new seat created after the 2020 United States census.
The Portland city auditor is one of the six citywide elected positions in Portland,Oregon. The auditor is the only elected official functionally independent of City Council and accountable only to the public. The auditor exists "to promote open and accountable government by providing independent and impartial reviews,access to public information,and services for City government and the public." The current auditor,since January 2023,is Simone Rede.
The 2022 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 17,2022,and November 8,2022.
Rene Gonzalez is an American attorney,entrepreneur,and Democratic politician. He challenged Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty for her seat during the 2022 Portland,Oregon City Commission election,running on a platform that emphasized law-and-order and livability. He won the race with 52.6% of the vote,and took office in January 2023.
The 2018 Portland City Commission elections were held on May 15,2018,and November 6,2018.
