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The Other Mayor Mays 02 28 06

The headline in newspaper read, “The People of The Dalles Win a Handsome Victory,” and the story is about a gentleman named R. Mays who had been elected mayor of The Dalles. But this isn’t a story in The Dalles Chronicle about current mayor Rich Mays’ first election in 2019. Instead, the headline and story appeared in The Oregonian on June 18, 1891, and reported on Robert Mays being elected as Mayor of The Dalles. Though there are no streets, monuments or school buildings named after him, Robert Mays is an influential rancher, business owner and politician in The Dalles, Wasco County and the state of Oregon in the last half of the 19th Century. And his political career is one of the most unusual ever in the state. It began when he was elected as state representative from Wasco County, when that county covered all of Oregon east of the Cascades, and served in the very first session of the Oregon legislature in 1860. He was not re-elected in 1862, but in 1874 he was elected again and served one term. In 1891, he was voted in as Mayor of The Dalles and in 1896 he was elected as Wasco County Judge. He also owned many businesses and was involved in many organizations.