Port Richey Government
Incorporated 1925
Port Richey government consists of an elected city council of 5 members, each with 3 year terms of office. A mayor is elected separately and is a member of the city council. The city council appoints a city manager who is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the city.
Mayors
| Charles F. Hoffman 1 | 1925 | |
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Victor Malcolm Clark | 1926 – 1927 |
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William Michael Nicks | 1928 – 1929 |
| John Nelson | 1930 – 1938 | |
| John G. Holzscheiter (acting) | 1937 | |
| Frank H. Slagle 2 | 1939 – 1942 | |
| H. E. Clark | 1943 – 1944 | |
| F. E. McClimans | 1945 | |
| A. F. Curtis | 1946 | |
| Marvin D. Ackerman | 1947 – 1948 | |
| Harry A. Lashua | 1949 – 1950 | |
| Walker Price Stone | 1951 – 1952 | |
| Hendrik J. Ammeraal Jr. | 1953 – 1954 | |
| Fred C. Nelson | 1954 – 1956 | |
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Dean Cox | 1957 – 1958 |
| Francis M. Fisher | 1959 – 1960 | |
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Paul Runyon | 1961 – 1962 |
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John Brasher | 1963 – 1966 |
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John W. Durney | 1967 – 1974 |
| Harry Siam Jr. | 1975 – 1978 | |
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Billie Milton Cox | 1978 – 1980 |
| Harold Loser | 1980 | |
| Doug Thompson | 1981 – 1983 | |
| Harold Loser | 1983 – 1986 | |
| James M. Carter | 1986 | |
| Keith Kollenbaum | 1986 – 1990 | |
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Michael Cox | 1991 – 1993 |
| Roger Naused | 1993 – 1995 | |
| James M. Carter | 1995 – 1997 | |
| Eileen Ferdinand | 1997 – 2000 | |
| Bob Leggiere (acting) | 2000 | |
| Eloise Taylor | 2000 – 2005 | |
| Mark A. Abbott | 2005 – 2007 | |
| Richard Rober | 2007 – 2012 | |
| Bill Colombo (acting) | 2012 | |
| Eloise Taylor | 2012 – 2015 | |
| Bill Colombo (acting) | 2015 | |
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Dale Glen Massad | 2015 – 2019 |
| Terrence Rowe (acting) | 2019 | |
| William Dittmer (acting) | 2019 | |
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Scott Tremblay | 2019 |
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John Eric Hoover | 2023 – present |
Footnotes:
1 Hoffman was named Mayor by the charter. Victor Malcolm Clark was the first elected mayor.
2 Frank Slagle’s last name is sometime seen spelled “Slagel”.
City Council Members
| S. J. Ross | 1925 | |
| Victor Clark | 1925 | |
| M. L. Bailey | 1925 | |
| H. H. Stubblefield | 1925 | |
| John Nelson | 1925 | |
| Warner Randall | 1926 | |
| Walter Smith | 1926 | |
| Susie Clark | 1926 | |
| B. W. Davis | 1926 | |
| Harry Flemming | 1926 | |
| M. W. Hicks | 1930 | |
| Harry C. Waldvogel | 1930 | |
| Art Da Coma | 1930 | |
| David H. Clark | 1931 | |
| John Holzscheiter | 1932 | |
| Henry Remling | 1937 | |
| William Garrett | 1939 | |
| William Schaefer | 1939 | |
| B. N. Wanser | 1939 | |
| Fred Nelson | 1940 | |
| S. M. Uzzel | 1940 | |
| Mrs. Post | 1941 | |
| Mrs. Nolyscheitermane | 1941 | |
| N. E. Clark | 1941 | |
| A. F. Curtis | 1943 | |
| Homer Hunn | 1943 | |
| Otto Miller | 1943 | |
| H. G. Van Buren | 1943 | |
| Fremont Simmons | 1945 | |
| James Teeslick | 1945 | |
| J. B. McDonald | 1945 | |
| Henry Queener | 1945 | |
| H. E. Lugenheel | 1946 | |
| Isadore Decubellis | 1946 | |
| W. P. Stone | 1949 | |
| Robert Stewart | 1947 | |
| Daniel Hillicross | 1950 | |
| William Grey | 1950 | |
| Frank Archibald | 1951 | |
| E. L. Fowler | 1952 | |
| D. E. Hillsaur | 1952 | |
| S. H. Ranks | 1952 | |
| S. H. Allen | 1953 | |
| D. M. Day | 1953 | |
| Dean Cox | 1955 | |
| Howard Roark | 1955 | |
| John Beaton | 1955 | |
| Earnest Ritter | 1955 | |
| Eugene Strout | 1956 | |
| Dr. Robert Hartzell | 1956 | |
| John DeYoung | 1956 | |
| Russ Locastro | 1957 | |
| Arthur Nowland | 1958 | |
| Charles Lewis | 1958 | |
| Lawrence Dougherty | 1959 | |
| Emil Ilman | 1959 | |
| James Cardnell | 1960 | |
| Clarence Pierce | 1960 | |
| John Gibson | 1961 | |
| Peter Phillips | 1961 | |
| Margaret Sutterland | 1961 | |
| John Brasher | 1961 | |
| Phillip Cipollo | 1961 | |
| William Bennett | 1962 | |
| Don Armstrong | 1963 | |
| Dan Riddle | 1963 | |
| Lawrence C. Earle Sr. | 1963 | |
| William Bell | 1964 | |
| Robert Koons | 1966 | |
| William Chafin | 1966 | |
| Fred Rottman | 1966 | |
| Roy Baker | 1967 | |
| William Whited | 1967 | |
| Charles Schwartz | 1968 | |
| August Stritt | 1968 | |
| Thad Lowrey | 1969 | |
| Frank Williams | 1970 | |
| Ralph Shannon | 1970 | |
| Leslie Payne | 1972 | |
| Holy Oder | 1973 | |
| John Dacey | 1973 | |
| Gerald Riddle | 1973 | |
| Robert Downey | 1974 | |
| Marilyn Hill | 1975 | |
| Doris Burris | 1975 | |
| Robert Wilhite | 1976 | |
| Gordon Caravona | 1977 | |
| Myles Kelly | 1977 | |
| Burton Spissak | 1977 | |
| Harold Loser | 1977 | |
| Billie Cox | 1977 | |
| Doug Thompson | 1978 | |
| Joe Bilancione | 1978 | |
| Kenneth Meade | 1978 | |
| Patrick Raimond | 1978 | |
| Edward Savica | 1979 | |
| Gordon Seago | 1980 | |
| Robert Haleen | 1980 | |
| Gordon Lennon | 1980 | |
| Sharon Rumpf | 1980 | |
| Thomas Smith | 1983 | |
| Keith Kollenbaum | 1984 | |
| Roger Naused | 1986 | |
| Jean Looney | 1987 | |
| Michael Cox | 1987 | |
| C. E. Hempfling | 1987 | |
| Joseph Mastrocolo | 1987 | |
| Ken Altman | 1988 |
Page created March 29, 2024 by Paul Herman, Digital Media Archivist, West Pasco Historical Society. Last edited March 25, 2025.