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19 april 1893 seattle , washington , u.s. gideon weed darmstadt , hesse , german confederation henry yesler judaism united states american mayor of seattle 29 december 1829 8th 1879 bailey-gatzert-portrait . jpg bailey gatzert
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bailey gatzert

bailey gatzert -lrb- december 29 , 1829 -- april 19 , 1893 -rrb- was an american politician and the eighth mayor of seattle , washington , serving from 1875 to 1876 .
he was the first jewish mayor of seattle , narrowly missing being the first jewish mayor of a major american city -lrb- moses bloom became mayor of iowa city , iowa , in 1873 -rrb- , and has been the only jewish mayor of seattle to date .
gatzert was born in 1829 in darmstadt , germany , and emigrated to natchez , mississippi , in 1849 , coming west four years later .
in 1869 he opened a seattle branch of schwabacher brothers and company , a hardware and general store he managed as partners with his brothers-in-law abraham , louis , and sigmund schwabacher .
in addition to being mayor , gatzert was charter member of the seattle chamber of commerce , served on the seattle city council 1872 -- 1873 and 1877 -- 1878 , was president of puget sound national bank and peoples savings bank , and co-founded washington 's second synagogue -lrb- seattle 's first -rrb- , ohaveth shalom , which opened in 1892 .
washington 's first synagogue was built in spokane .
the famous sternwheeler `` bailey gatzert '' is named for him , as is an elementary school .
