Captain Frank V. Hogan, first Mayor, 1891
Frank V. Hogan was born February 9, 1838 in Missouri, according to the 1850 census. He was the son of Hortensia and John Davenport Hogan.
During the American Civil War, he was a captain in the army of the Confederate States of America (CSA) and told of being present for the Battle of Galveston.
After the war, Hogan said he left Texas for California and made his way to Washington in about 1888. In Anacortes, he invested in land as a partner with Hogan and Hagan, a firm that handled property for the Oregon Improvement Company. In the “boom years” Hogan was elected Anacortes' first mayor when the town incorporated in 1891; he served two other 1-year terms in 1904 and 1915.
When boom turned to bust by 1893 in Anacortes, Hogan moved his real estate business to Tacoma. In 1894 he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for a reportedly unprovoked knife attack on a stranger (Deplorable Stabbing Affray, Anacortes American, 19 April 1894).
By 1900 Hogan was back to Anacortes, where he operated a real estate business until retirement.
Frank Hogan passed away on September 21, 1927 and is interred at Grandview Cemetery in Anacortes, Washington. He was survived by four daughters.
