List of mayors of Pasadena, California


Mayors of [Pasadena, California]

#DatesNameLife datesElected byPartyNotes
11886–1887Henry James Holmes1825–1892councilRepublican
21887–1889Millard Mayhew Parker1849–1928councilRepublican
31889–1890Amos G. Throop1811–1894councilTemperance
41890–1892Theodore Lukens 1848–1918councilRepublican
51892–1894Oscar Fitzallen Weed1824–1919councilRepublican
61894–1895Theodore Lukens 1848–1918councilRepublican
71895–1896John Samuel Cox1857–1941councilRepublican
81896–1898Calvin Hartwell1849–1920councilRepublican
91898–1900George Downing Patten1847–1922councilRepublican
101900–1901Horace Dobbins1868–1962councilRepublican
111901–1903Martin H. Weight1854–1920publicRepublicanFirst publicly elected mayor
121903–1905William Vedder1862–1923publicDemocratic
131905–1907William Waterhouse1852–1943publicRepublican
141907–1911Thomas Earley1849–1912publicDemocratic
151911–1913William Thum1862–1941publicRepublican
161913–1915Richard Lee Metcalf1854–1916publicDemocratic
171915–1921Arthur Lincoln Hamilton1859–1953public--
181921–1925Hiram W. Wadsworth1862–1939publicRepublican
191925–1927Franklin Brooks Cole1872–1943council--
201927–1929Clayton Taylor1870–1941councilRepublican
211929–1931Robert L. Daugherty1885–1978councilRepublican
221931–1932Patrick M. Walker1876–1946council--
231932–1941Edward O. Nay1873–1941councilRepublicanOnly mayor to die in office
241941–1943Albert I. Stewart1870–1963councilRepublican
251943–1945Carl G. Wopschall1879–1959council--
261945–1947Robert E. Dawson1884–1968councilRepublican
271947–1948Charles Hamill1898–1978council--
281948–1951A. Ray Benedict1885–1974councilRepublican
291951–1953Alson E. Abernethy1900–1969councilRepublican
301953–1955Clarence A. Winder1887–1959councilRepublican
311955–1956Warren Dorn1918–2006councilRepublican
321956–1959Seth Miller1890–1967councilRepublican
331959–1961Ray G. Woods1910–1990councilRepublican
341961–1963C. Lewis Edwards1905–1999councilDemocratic
351963–1964Clarence Allen Oakley1915–1982councilDemocratic
361964–1966Floyd Gwinn1897–1972councilDemocratic
371966–1968Boyd Welin1904–1989councilRepublican
381968–1970Cyril Bernard Cooper1900–1971councilRepublican
391970–1972Walter Benedict1908–2000councilRepublican
401972–1974Donald F. Yokaitis1932–councilRepublican
411974–1976Mortimer J. Matthews1933–2007councilRepublican
421976–1977Robert Glenn White1929–2010councilDemocrat
431977–1980Dr. Ellis Jones1916–1986councilRepublican
441980–1982Josephine Heckman1914–1998councilRepublicanFirst female mayor
451982–1984Loretta Thompson-Glickman1945–2001councilDemocraticFirst African-American mayor
461984–1986Bill Bogaard 1938–councilDemocratic
471986–1988John C. Crowley1920–2007councilDemocratic
481988–1990William E. Thomson1927–councilRepublican
491990–1992Jess Hughston1924–1998councilDemocratic
501992–1994Rick Cole1953–councilDemocratic
511994–1995Katie Nack1925–2008councilDemocratic
521995–1997Bill Paparian1950–councilIndependent
531997–1999Chris Holden1960–councilDemocraticSecond African-American mayor
541999–2015Bill Bogaard 1938–publicDemocraticLongest-serving mayor
552015–Terry Tornek1945-publicDemocraticCurrent mayor

Living former mayors

As of May 2015, five former mayors were alive, the oldest being Bill Thomson. The most recent mayor to die was Katie Nack, on March 17, 2008.
NameMayoral term
Bill Thomson ±1988–1990
Rick Cole1992–1994
Bill Paparian1995–1997
Chris Holden1997–1999
Bill Bogaard1999–2015