The following is a list of people who have served as
mayor of the city of
Houston in the U.S. state of
Texas.
Until 2015, the term of the mayor was two years. Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier, the city charter imposed
term limits
A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potenti ...
on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total). On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to four years, while imposing a limit of two terms.
List of mayors of Houston
Living former mayors
, five former mayors were alive, the oldest being
Lee Brown (1998–2004, born 1937). The most recent mayor to die was
Bob Lanier (1992–1998), on December 20, 2014.
See also
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Timeline of Houston
References
External links
Mayor of Houston Biography
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Houston, Texas
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
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Mayors
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