Sam Adams
The Office
The Portland Tribune called
Portland's City Commissioner Sam Adams "The council’s most vocal
advocate for public arts, neighborhoods, diversity, transportation,
economic development, and transparency and accountability in
government." That long list maybe makes Sam Portland’s busiest City
Commissioner, but he's no stranger to hard work.
Sam’s
well-known work ethic was born from childhood experiences that included public
housing and public assistance. He says that these experiences fueled
his passion for making government work better for the people. He gravitated
to politics early in life as a University of Oregon intern for
Congressman Peter DeFazio where he stayed on staff until 1987. Sam then
went to work for the Oregon House Democratic Campaign Committee and
Carl Hosticka, then Democratic Majority Leader and current Metro
Councilor. Sam turned his focus to Portland in 1991, where he
successfully managed Vera Katz’s first campaign for mayor. At age 29,
he began the first of 11 years as the youngest mayoral chief of staff
in the city’s history.
Today, Sam continues to conquer those
political first ascents serving as Portland ’s first-ever openly gay
City Commissioner. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Cascade
AIDS Project and in his role as City Commissioner serves on the boards
of the Portland Streetcar Inc., Portland Area Tram Inc., Joint Policy
Advisory Committee on Transportation, the Bi-State Coordination
Committee, and Kenton Business District Association.
Sam Adams
1221 SW 4th Avenue, Room 220
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 823-3008
Fax: (503) 823-3017
commissionersam@ci.portland.or.us
Posted by The Office on April 18, 2005
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