Philip Wasserman (December 1828 – February 26, 1895) was the mayor of

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, United States from 1871 to 1873. He was a pioneer banker and co-founder of the First National Bank. Wasserman moved to Portland from

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in 1858 and entered the tobacco and cigar business with his brother, Herman. He was part of a group of successful early Jews in Portland who exhibited a strong sense of public responsibility and appetite for public life, along with his predecessor (and Portland's first Jewish mayor),

Bernard Goldsmith Bernard Goldsmith (November 20, 1832 – July 22, 1901) was a Bavarian-American businessman and politician. He is best remembered as the 19th mayor of Portland, Oregon, serving from 1869 to 1871, and as the first Jew to hold that position. ...

. He died of heart failure at his home in Portland on February 26, 1895.

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Mayors of Portland, Oregon Jewish American people in Oregon politics Jewish mayors of places in the United States Jews and Judaism in Portland, Oregon 1828 births 1895 deaths Oregon Republicans 19th-century American politicians {{Oregon-mayor-stub