Kendra James was a 21-year-old African-American Oregonian mother of two,who was fatally shot by police on May 5,2003. The incident sparked a controversy over the use of deadly force by the Portland Police Bureau in Portland,Oregon.
John Elwood "Bud" Clark Jr. was an American politician and businessman who served as the 48th mayor of Portland,Oregon,from 1985 to 1992. A left-leaning populist with little political experience before his mayoral bid,he was one of Portland's most colorful political figures.
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 history of the city of Portland,Oregon,began in 1843 when business partners William Overton and Asa Lovejoy filed to claim land on the west bank of the Willamette River in Oregon Country. In 1845 the name of Portland was chosen for this community by coin toss. February 8,1851,the city was incorporated. Portland has continued to grow in size and population,with the 2010 Census showing 583,776 residents in the city.
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.
Francis James Ivancie was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Portland,Oregon,from 1980 to 1985. Prior to his term as mayor,Ivancie served for fourteen years on the Portland City Council. After his retirement from elected office,Ivancie remained active in community affairs,occasionally lending his support to political causes. During his political career,Ivancie was a conservative Democrat.
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.
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB),officially the Portland Bureau of Police,is the law enforcement agency of the city of Portland,the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. While oversight of Portland's bureaus shifts among the five City Commissioners,the mayor has historically been assigned to the Police Bureau as the police commissioner.
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.
Charles Andrew Hales is a former American politician who served as the 52nd mayor of Portland,Oregon,from 2013 to 2017. He previously served on the Portland City Council from 1993 to 2002.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland,Oregon,United States.
Charles Ray Jordan was a Portland City Commissioner from 1974 until 1984. He was the first African-American city commissioner in Portland,Oregon,and is the namesake of the Charles Jordan Community Center.
Jim Francesconi is an American lawyer and politician who served on the Portland,Oregon City Council from 1997 until 2004. In 2004 he raised $1.3 million in his bid for mayor of Portland,more than doubling the previous fund-raising record for the position of $600,000,set by Earl Blumenauer in 1992. Francesconi lost the election to Tom Potter,a former police chief who placed strict limits on contributions to his own campaign,and who ultimately spent less than a tenth of what Francesconi did on the campaign.
Danielle Outlaw is an American former law enforcement officer. She served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department in Philadelphia from 2020 to 2023,chief of police of the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon from 2017 to 2019,and deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department in California form 2013 to 2017.
The Portland Police Bureau was founded in 1870,and has been making societal changes in their city before others across the country,naming the first female police officer,Lola Baldwin,in 1908,being the first Bureau to ever do so in the United States. Its interaction with the LGBTQ community dates back to as early as 1912,with the Portland Vice Scandal,which involved many arrests in the community due to “indecency”or even counts of sodomy,when the arrests had little viable evidence and were heavily biased. The community kept low throughout the next few decades,until the early 1960s,when the community began to grow in size along with the rest of the city. Writers for papers such as The Oregon Journal stated:“The unmentionable people are virtually untouchable and they are growing stronger each week.”These reports were odd and prompted some early arrests in the 60s for “sex and pornography offenses”which prompted uproar. After these small incidents,the police became hands off with the LGBTQ community,and throughout the decades have embraced their inclusion in the Portland community,swearing to protect and serve all citizens of Portland. In 1977,the city recognized a national gay pride day,and campaigns against bigoted state measures in the 1990s helped halt discrimination and put Portland on the path to its current inclusive social environment.
The End Domestic Terrorism rally,sometimes subtitled "Better Dead Than Red",was a far-right demonstration organized by the Proud Boys and held in Portland,Oregon on August 17,2019. The event,the purpose of which was to promote the idea that the "antifa" anti-fascist movement should be classified as "domestic terrorism",received national attention. The rally drew more counter-demonstrators than participants,with at least one group urging its members in advance not to attend,and ended with the Proud Boys requesting a police escort to leave.
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.
Kayse Jama is an American politician currently serving as a Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate,representing Oregon's 24th Senate district,which includes parts of Clackamas and Multnomah Counties. Jama was appointed by the Clackamas and Multnomah County Board of Commissioners to replace Shemia Fagan,who was elected Oregon Secretary of State in 2021.
The 2024 Portland City Council elections will be held on November 5,2024,to elect the members of Portland's City Council. This will be a unique election as it will be the first election under Portland's new form of government,the first without a primary,the first where every seat will be up for election,and the first under a proportional ranked-choice voting system as opposed to a first-past-the-post voting system with a primary.
