Stu Rasmussen

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Stu Rasmussen
Mayor of Silverton, Oregon
In office
January 2009 – January 2015
Preceded byKen Hector
Succeeded byRick Lewis
Silverton City Councilor
In office
January 2004 – January 2008
Silver Falls Library Board
In office
1997–2001
Silverton City Councilor
In office
January 1992 – January 1996
Mayor of Silverton, Oregon
In office
January 1988 – January 1992
Silverton City Councilor
In office
January 1984 – January 1988
Personal details
Born(1948-09-09)September 9, 1948
Silverton, Oregon, U.S.
DiedNovember 17, 2021 (aged 73)
Silverton, Oregon, U.S.
PartyDemocratic (since 1996)
Other political
affiliations		Independent (before 1996)

Stu Rasmussen (September 9, 1948 – November 17, 2021) was an American politician. She became the nation's first openly transgender mayor when she was elected as the mayor of Silverton, Oregon in November 2008.[1][2]

She had previously been elected twice in the 1990s as mayor of Silverton before coming out as transgender.[3] She was also three times a member of the city council.[4] Stu described herself as a "gender anarchist", and used both he/him and she/her pronouns.[5] She sometimes went by the name Carla Fong.[6]

Rasmussen unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1994 as an independent, and a seat in the Oregon State Senate in 1996 as a Democrat. She ran for the House again in 1998 as a Democrat, losing with 41% of the vote.[7]

In 2013 a musical about Rasmussen, Stu for Silverton, premiered at Seattle's Intiman Theatre.[6][8][9]

Rasmussen, a self-described fiscal conservative and social liberal,[2][4] served as city councilor until January 2009.[10]

She co-owned Silverton's 1936 Palace Theater, which shows first-run movies, since 1974.[11]

Rasmussen died from prostate cancer on November 17, 2021, at the age of 73.[12]

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