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The following is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. Until 2015, the term of the mayor was two years. Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier, the city charter imposed term limits on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total). On November 3, 2015, voters approved ...
This category contains the mayors of Houston, Texas in that city's history. ... Pages in category "Mayors of Houston" The following 47 pages are in this category, out ...
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Sylvester Turner (born September 27, 1954) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 18th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Turner was the 62nd mayor of Houston from 2016 to 2024 and was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1989 to 2016.
Houston is home today to too many different kinds of people, with too many different sets of values and interests, for any one group to control elections so easily. [11] Whitmire was the first mayor to appoint an African American, Lee P. Brown, as Houston's police chief. Brown had previously served as Commissioner of Public Safety, in Atlanta ...
Oct. 11—PALMER — The mayor of the Mat-Su city of Houston, as well as the deputy mayor and city treasurer, resigned suddenly last week without any immediate public explanation. Virgie Thompson ...
Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American politician, criminologist and businessman; in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston, Texas.
The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took ...