Voters elect Wes Uhlman as Seattle Mayor on November 4, 1969.

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On November 4, 1969, Wes Uhlman (b. 1935) defeats Mort Frayn to become Seattle's youngest mayor at age 34. Wayne Larkin (ca. 1927-2009), Jeannette Williams (1914-2008), Liem Tuai, and George Cooley are elected to the Seattle City Council. Voters reject a transit household tax and a school levy.

Because the office of mayor was vacant (J. D. "Dorm" Braman had been appointed to a post in the Nixon Administration), Uhlman took office on December 1, 1969, one month before the usual inauguration.

Sources:
Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 276; "Mayors of the City of Seattle," Seattle Municipal Clerk website, (www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives/ Reference/Mayors.htm).

By Alan J. Stein, June 09, 1999

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Wes Uhlman, Pike Place Market, 1974
Courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives (Image No. 36790)