List of mayors of Cordova, Alaska

This is a list of mayors of Cordova in the state of Alaska in the United States. The City of Cordova was incorporated on July 8, 1909.[1]

Name	Term	Notes
George Hazelet	c. 1909[2]	First mayor of Cordova[3]
Will H. Chase	1910[4]
Austin E. Lathrop	1911–1912[5]	Ran for city council and was named mayor by virtue of being to top vote-getter in the election. Lathrop declined any more terms as mayor, but continued serving on the council until 1914[5]
Will H. Chase	1928, 1932,[6]^[failed verification] 1934[7]	Multiple sources state he served as mayor of Cordova for 24 terms, not necessarily consecutive, though.[8] Born in 1874 and died in 1965.[9]^[failed verification] Served 18 years as mayor by 1952.[10] By 1911 he had already served as mayor in some capacity.[11] By 1938 he had already served 12 times as mayor.[12] Was elected mayor in 1910 along with a "practically new council."[4]
Richard Davis	1949[13]
Barney Anderson	1961[14]
John Stotera LeFevre	1961–1963
Melvin Soder	1965[15]
Arthur P. Knight	1971[16]
Jim Poor	1975[17]
Erling Johansen	1985[18] – 1989[19]
Bob Van Brocklin	1989[20] – 1990[21]	Committed suicide several years after the oil spill.[22]
Kelly Weaverling	1991–1993	First Green Party mayor in U.S.[23]
Margy Johnson	1993–1999[24]	First woman elected mayor of Cordova[25]
Ed Zeine	1999[26] – 2000
Margy Johnson	2001[27] – 2002[28]
Nancy Bird	2003	"... served for about 4 months as Acting Mayor in 2003."[29]
Timothy L. Joyce	March 2004 – March 2010[30]
James Kallander	March 2010 – March 2013[30]
Jim Kasch	March 2013 – March 2016[31]
Clay Koplin	March 2016 – present[32]

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