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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 ...
Lord was a tradesman and an industrialist. He had owned a sawmill in Houston, but was best known for Eagle Iron Works, a manufacturer of iron and brass products. [1] Lord was elected to his first public office in 1858, when he began serving as Alderman for the First Ward in Houston.
John Harris Whitmire (born August 13, 1949) [2] is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd mayor of Houston, the most populous city in Texas, since 2024.
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.
Daniel C. Smith (April 30, 1836 - January 1915) was Mayor of Houston, Texas from 1886 to 1890. [1] A railroad machinist, Smith is the only mayor of Houston to have been elected as a sitting member of a labor union.
The battle to be the next mayor of Houston is headed to a runoff next month, NBC News projects, pitting Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire against Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee after ...
Alexander McGowan was born in Duplin County, North Carolina on July 5, 1817. He was raised by foster parents and spent most of his youth in Montgomery, Alabama.He came to Houston in September 1839, opening a tin shop shortly after arriving.
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 ...