List of mayors of Hillsboro, Oregon , United States, arranged chronologically by term.
# | Image | Name | Term |
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1 | Alfred Luelling [1] [2] | December 8, 1876 – December 10, 1877 | |
2 | Charles T. Tozier [1] | December 10, 1877 – December 3, 1878 | |
3 | A. M. Collins [1] | December 3, 1878 – December 2, 1879 | |
4 | W. D. Pittenger [1] | December 2, 1879 – December 18, 1880 | |
5 | P. M. Dennis [1] | December 18, 1880 – January 2, 1882 | |
6 | Rodolph Crandall [1] | January 2, 1882 – December 13, 1882 | |
7 | Thomas H. Tongue [1] | December 13, 1882 – December 10, 1883 | |
(3) | A. M. Collins [1] | December 10, 1883 – December 7, 1884 | |
(6) | Rodolph Crandall [1] | December 7, 1884 – December 14, 1885 | |
8 | William D. Hare [1] | December 14, 1885 – December 13, 1886 | |
(7) | Thomas H. Tongue [1] | December 13, 1886 – December 9, 1887 | |
9 | Francis Alonzo Bailey [1] [3] | December 9, 1887 – December 3, 1888 | |
10 | Samuel Towers Linklater [1] | December 3, 1888 – December 2, 1889 | |
11 | Samuel B. Huston [1] | December 2, 1889 – December 5, 1890 | |
(9) | Francis Alonzo Bailey [1] | December 5, 1890 – December 6, 1892 | |
12 | J. D. Merryman [1] | December 6, 1892 – December 5, 1893 | |
13 | Joseph C. Hare [1] | December 5, 1893 – December 4, 1894 | |
(11) | Samuel B. Huston [1] | December 4, 1894 – December 5, 1895 | |
14 | R. B. Goodin [1] | December 5, 1895 – December 8, 1896 | |
15 | William N. Barrett [1] | December 8, 1896 – December 5, 1899 | |
16 | George H. Wilcox [1] | December 5, 1899 – December 4, 1900 | |
(9) | Francis Alonzo Bailey [1] | December 4, 1900 – December 2, 1902 | |
(15) | William N. Barrett [1] | December 2, 1902 – December 15, 1903 | |
17 | Benjamin P. Cornelius [1] | December 15, 1903 – December 4, 1906 | |
18 | John Dennis [1] | December 4, 1906 – December 1, 1908 | |
19 | J. W. Connell [1] | December 1, 1908 – December 7, 1909 | |
20 | Augustus B. Bailey [1] | December 7, 1909 – December 6, 1910 | |
21 | Harry T. Bagley [1] | December 6, 1910 – January 5, 1915 | |
(15) | William N. Barrett [1] | January 5, 1915 – December 16, 1916 | |
22 | John M. Wall [1] | January 2, 1917 – January 4, 1921 | |
23 | Arthur C. Shute [1] | January 4, 1921 – February 5, 1924 | |
24 | J. B. Trullinger [1] | February 5, 1924 – January 6, 1925 | |
25 | Mason P. Cady [1] | January 6, 1925 – January 2, 1929 | |
26 | Orange Phelps [1] | January 2, 1929 – January 2, 1935 | |
27 | John H. Garrett [1] | January 2, 1935 – January 3, 1939 | |
28 | Hugh S. Rogers [1] | January 3, 1939 – April 20, 1945 | |
29 | E. A. Griffith [1] | April 27, 1945 – January 4, 1949 | |
30 | H. M. Seabold [1] | January 4, 1949 – January 2, 1951 | |
31 | L. J. Alter [1] | January 2, 1951 – January 2, 1957 | |
32 | S. Howard Davis [1] | January 2, 1957 – January 3, 1963 | |
33 | Lloyd T. Anderson [1] | January 3, 1963 – January 7, 1969 | |
34 | Harold R. Ruecker [1] | January 7, 1969 – January 2, 1973 | |
35 | Miller M. Duris [4] | January 2, 1973 – 1977 | |
36 | Larry Johnson [4] | 1977–1981 | |
37 | Jim Darr [4] | 1981 – January 1985 | |
38 | Shirley Huffman [4] | January 1985 – January 1993 | |
39 | Gordon Faber [4] | January 1993 – January 2, 2001 | |
40 | Tom Hughes [4] | January 2, 2001 – January 6, 2009 | |
41 | Jerry Willey [4] | January 6, 2009 – January 3, 2017 | |
42 | Steve Callaway [5] | January 3, 2017 – present |
Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Situated in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city hosts many high-technology companies, such as Intel, locally known as the Silicon Forest. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 106,447.
Thomas H. Tongue was an American politician and attorney in the state of Oregon. Born in England, his family immigrated to Washington County, Oregon, in 1859. In Oregon, he would serve in the State Senate from 1889 to 1893 and was the seventh mayor of Hillsboro. A Republican, he was chairman of the state party, and national convention delegate in 1892. Tongue served as Congressman from 1897 to 1903 representing Oregon's 1st congressional district.
The Hillsboro Argus was a twice-weekly newspaper in the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, from 1894 to 2017, known as the Washington County Argus for its final year. The Argus was distributed in Washington County, Oregon, United States. First published in 1894, but later merged with the older, 1873-introduced Forest Grove Independent, the paper was owned by the McKinney family for more than 90 years prior to being sold to Advance Publications in 1999. The Argus was published weekly until 1953, then twice-weekly from 1953 until 2015. In early 2017, it was reported that the paper was planning to cease publication in March 2017. The final edition was that of March 29, 2017.
The Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery is a pioneer cemetery in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. It is located at the west end of the city along the Tualatin Valley Highway and adjacent to Dairy Creek. The 8.42-acre (3.41 ha) cemetery comprises three formerly private cemeteries. In 1973, the city of Hillsboro gained title to what is the oldest cemetery in Washington County.
The Hillsboro Civic Center is a government-built, mixed-use development in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. The development includes the city hall for the county seat of Washington County, located west of Portland, Oregon. Covering 6 acres (24,000 m2), the Civic Center has a total of over 165,000 square feet (15,300 m2) in the complex. The total of six stories for the main structure makes the building the tallest in the city, tied with Tuality Community Hospital. In addition to government offices, the Civic Center includes retail space, public plazas, and residential housing. The complex was built to centralize city government functions under one roof.
William Nathan Barrett was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon. A native of Washington County, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, including three different times in the Oregon House. A Republican, he was also a three time mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon.
Samuel Bruce Huston was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon. Originally a Democrat and later a Republican, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was twice the mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon. A native of Indiana, he served in the state senate as a Democrat from one county his first term, but moved and changed parties by his second term 20 years later.
Charles True Tozier was an American politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Indiana, he moved to Oregon in 1863 and served as the second mayor of the city of Hillsboro and in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Tom Hughes is an American politician and former educator. He was the president of Metro, a regional government in the Portland metropolitan area, from 2011-2019, and was the mayor of his home town of Hillsboro from 2001-2009. He also on the city's planning commission and city council. During his time a mayor, the city built the Hillsboro Civic Center as the new city hall, with the exterior plaza then named in his honor after he left office.
Shirley Todd Huffman was an American politician and legal secretary in the U.S. state of Oregon. Raised in Dayton, Oregon, she settled in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she served on the city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1985 to 1993. During her time as mayor, plans for the Westside Light Rail were approved, with Huffman receiving credit for the extension into downtown Hillsboro. After leaving office, she served on the board of directors of TriMet and as a development coordinator for the city.
Rodolph Crandall was an American politician and soldier. A native of New York, he served in the American Civil War before settling in the state of Oregon. There he held several offices in Washington County, as well as serving twice as mayor of Hillsboro.
Harry Taylor Bagley was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he was raised in Washington County, Oregon, where he practiced law and was a local official. He also served as a two-term mayor of Hillsboro, the county seat, and under his administration the city's public works were modernized and roads paved for the first time.
Orange Phelps was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of California, he attended colleges in the Midwest where he played baseball before moving to Oregon. Phelps settled near Portland in Hillsboro where he opened the first movie theater and later served as a mayor of that city and on the city council. He continued in the movie business until the 1970s and also opened the first drive-in theater in the county.
The Hillsboro Tribune was a weekly newspaper that covered the city of Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon and was published from 2012 to 2019. It was replaced in 2019 by a Hillsboro edition of the Forest Grove News-Times, a sister publication.
The News-Times is a weekly newspaper covering the cities of Forest Grove and Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1886 and with coverage focused on Forest Grove for most of its history, the paper only recently added equivalent coverage of the much larger city of Hillsboro, when, in August 2019, publisher Pamplin Media Group launched a separate Hillsboro edition of the News-Times, to replace Pamplin's Hillsboro Tribune. The paper is published on Wednesdays. It is owned by Pamplin Media Group, which owns other community newspapers in the Portland metropolitan area.
The Forest Grove Leader was a weekly community newspaper in Forest Grove in the U.S. state of Oregon. Started in 2012, it was published by the Oregonian Publishing Company, which also published The Hillsboro Argus newspaper and continues to publish The Oregonian. The free publication competed with the News-Times in the city, a suburb of the Portland metropolitan area. In January 2016, it was combined with two other newspapers to form the Washington County Argus, but the Argus ceased publication only 14 months later, in March 2017.
Oregon Mandolin Orchestra (OMO) is an all-volunteer community orchestra based in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 2010, the OMO consists of about 30 members and has been led by music director Christian McKee since April 2017.
Jerry Willey is an American politician who is currently a Washington County Commissioner and was the 41st mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, a position he held from 2009 to 2017.