Charles T. Royer Subject Correspondence
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, reports, and other records related to the issues, programs, and organizations that were part of the work of the Mayor's Office during Royer's tenure. Major topics covered include downtown issues, housing, the arts, community councils, transportation, KidsPlace, environmental issues, sports, Interstate 90, Metro, gay and minority issues, Pioneer Square, schools, and boards and commissions. Arranged alphabetically by subject for each year.
Dates
- Creation: 1978-1989
Creator
- Royer, Charles, 1939- (Person)
- Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Biographical Note
Born in 1939 in Medford, Oregon, Charles Royer briefly attended Portland State University before being drafted by the Army in 1961. Upon being discharged from the military, he went to the University of Oregon and studied journalism. He worked as a news reporter for television stations in Eugene, Portland, and Seattle for about ten years before running for Seattle mayor in 1977. He won election, taking office in 1978 and serving three terms before stepping down at the end of 1989. Major issues Royer worked on during his tenure included public housing, the downtown bus tunnel, pollution, the High Ross Dam, the convention center, downtown development, and public health. He served as president of the National League of Cities in the early 1980s. After leaving office, Royer was the director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard for five years before returning to Seattle to work for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative. He later founded the nonprofit Institute for Community Change and worked as a consultant.
Full Extent
48.2 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Location of Records
SMA
Subject
- Downtown Seattle Development Association (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Royer, Charles, 1939- (Person)
- Puget Sound Council of Governments (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Mayor (Organization)
- Seattle Housing Authority (Organization)
- United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Organization)
- Seattle Chamber of Commerce (Organization)
- Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County (Organization)
- Home of the Good Shepherd (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- United Indians of All Tribes Foundation (U.S.) (Organization)
- Housing Resources Group (Organization)
- Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority (Organization)
- United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (Organization)
- Mayor's Small Business Citizens Task Force (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- King-Snohomish Manpower Consortium (Organization)
- Japan-American Conference of Mayors and Chamber of Commerce Presidents (Organization)
- African American Heritage Museum and Cultural Center (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Seattle 2000 Commission (Organization)
- Municipal League of Seattle (Organization)
- Public Reinvestment Review Board (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Organization)
- Neighborhood Crime Control Council (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Washington (State). Dept. of Transportation (Organization)
- Port of Seattle (Organization)
- Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Organization)
- United States. Army. Corps of Engineers (Organization)
- Southeast Housing Task Force (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center (Organization)
- United States Conference of Mayors (Organization)
- United States Conference of Mayors. Housing Task Force (Organization)
- United States. Navy (Organization)
- United States. Congress (Organization)
- United States. Environmental Protection Agency (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Board of Ethics (Organization)
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service (Organization)
- Seattle Urban League (Organization)
- Variety Club (Organization)
- Washington (State). Dept. of Social and Health Services (Organization)
- University of Washington (Organization)
- Seattle Art Museum (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- AIDS
- Alcoholism
- Annexation
- Arts -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Asian Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Bonds
- Child care
- Convention Center
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Environmental protection
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Females
- Forward Thrust
- Gays
- Greenbelts
- Hispanics
- Interstate 90
- Jews -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- KidsPlace (Seattle, Wash.)
- King County (Wash.). Jail
- Labor Relations
- Mercer Street (Seattle, Wash.)
- Minority Enterprises
- Monorail System
- Morrison Hotel (Seattle, Wash.)
- Native Americans
- Neighborhood House Inc. (Seattle, Wash.)
- Neighborhood Plans
- Nuclear disarmament
- Older people -- Housing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Pike Place Market
- Pollution
- Promenade 23 Shopping Center
- Racial and Ethnic Minorities
- Refugees -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Sand Point Coast Guard Property
- Schools
- Seafair
- Segregation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Sick's Stadium
- Signs and Billboards
- Sister cities
- Sports
- Taxes
- Television
- Transportation
- Waterfront Streetcar (Seattle, Wash.)
- West Seattle Bridge (Seattle, Wash.)
- Westlake Mall
- Womens Business Enterprises
- Title
- Guide to the Charles Royer Mayoral Records 1968-1990
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- EAD Location
- http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv50399
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository