List of mayors of Pasadena, California

Mayors of Pasadena, California

#	Dates	Name	Life Dates	Elected By	Party	Notes
1	1886–1887	Henry James Holmes	1825–1892	council	Republican
2	1887–1889	Millard Mayhew Parker	1849–1928[1][2]	council	Republican
3	1889–1890	Amos G. Throop	1811–1894	council	Temperance
4	1890–1892	Theodore Lukens (1)	1848–1918	council	Republican
5	1892–1894	Oscar Fitzallen Weed	1824–1919	council	Republican
6	1894–1895	Theodore Lukens (2)	1848–1918	council	Republican
7	1895–1896	John Samuel Cox	1857–1941[3]	council	Republican
8	1896–1898	Calvin Hartwell	1849–1920	council	Republican
9	1898–1900	George Downing Patten	1847–1922	council	Republican
10	1900–1901	Horace Dobbins	1868–1962	council	Republican
11	1901–1903	Martin H. Weight[4]	1854–1920	public	Republican	first publicly elected mayor
12	1903–1905	William Vedder	1862–1923	public	Democratic
13	1905–1907	William Waterhouse	1852–1943	public	Republican
14	1907–1911	Thomas Earley	1849–1912	public	Democratic
15	1911–1913	William Thum	1862–1941	public	Republican
16	1913–1915	Richard Lee Metcalf	1854–1916	public	Democratic
17	1915–1921	Arthur Lincoln Hamilton	1859–1953	public
18	1921–1925	Hiram W. Wadsworth	1862–1939[5]	public	Republican
19	1925–1927	Franklin Brooks Cole	1872–1943	council
20	1927–1929	Clayton Taylor	1870–1941	council	Republican
21	1929–1931	Robert L. Daugherty	1885–1978	council	Republican
22	1931–1932	Dr. Patrick M. Walker	1876–1946	council
23	1932–1941	Edward O. Nay	1873–1941	council	Republican	only mayor to die in office
24	1941–1943	Albert I. Stewart	1870–1963	council	Republican
25	1943–1945	Carl G. Wopschall	1879–1959	council
26	1945–1947	Robert E. Dawson	1884–1968	council	Republican
27	1947–1948	Charles Hamill	1898–1978	council
28	1948–1951	A. Ray Benedict	1885–1974	council	Republican
29	1951–1953	Alson E. Abernethy	1900–1969	council	Republican
30	1953–1955	Clarence A. Winder[6]	1887–1959	council	Republican
31	1955–1956	Warren Dorn	1918–2006	council	Republican
32	1956–1959	Seth Miller	1890–1967	council	Republican
33	1959–1961	Ray G. Woods	1910–1990	council	Republican
34	1961–1963	C. Lewis Edwards	1905–1999	council	Democratic
35	1963–1964	Clarence Allen Oakley	1915–1982[7][8]	council	Democratic
36	1964–1966	Floyd Gwinn	1897–1972	council	Democratic
37	1966–1968	Boyd Welin	1904–1989	council	Republican
38	1968–1970	C. Bernard Cooper	1900–1971	council	Republican
39	1970–1972	Walter Benedict	1908–2000	council	Republican
40	1972–1974	Donald F. Yokaitis	1932–	council	Republican
41	1974–1976	Mortimer J. Matthews	1933–2007	council	Republican
42	1976–1977	Robert Glenn White	1929–2010	council	Republican
43	1977–1980	Dr. Ellis Jones	1916–1986	council	Republican
44	1980–1982	Josephine Heckman	1914–1998	council	Republican	first female mayor
45	1982–1984	Loretta Thompson-Glickman	1945–2001	council	Democratic	first African-American mayor
46	1984–1986	Bill Bogaard (1)	1938–	council	Democratic
47	1986–1988	John C. Crowley	1920–2007	council	Democratic
48	1988–1990	William E. Thomson	1927–	council	Republican
49	1990–1992	Jess Hughston	1924–1998	council	Democratic
50	1992–1994	Rick Cole	1953–	council	Democratic
51	1994–1995	Katie Nack	1925–2008	council	Democratic
52	1995–1997	Bill Paparian	1950–	council	Independent
53	1997–1999	Chris Holden	1960–	council	Democratic	second African-American mayor
54	1999–2015	Bill Bogaard (2)	1938–	public	Democratic	longest serving mayor
55	2015-	Terry Tornek	1945-	public	Democratic	The Current Mayor

Living former mayors

As of May 2015, five former mayors were alive, the oldest being Bill Thomson (1988–1991). The most recent mayor to die was Katie Nack (1994–1995), on March 17, 2008.

Donald F Yokaitis 1972–1974Name!!Mayoral term
Bill Thomson ±	1988–1990
Rick Cole	1992–1994
Bill Paparian	1995–1997
Chris Holden	1997–1999
Bill Bogaard	1999–2015

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