Editing Cold Bay, Alaska (section)

==Government==
Cold Bay was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] as a city in January 1982.<ref>{{Cite book|title=1996 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=[[Juneau]]|publisher=[[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development|Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs]] / Alaska Municipal League|date=January 1996|page=42}}</ref> Cold Bay is classified by the state government as a second-class city.<ref name="SWAMC">{{Cite web|title=Cold Bay|url=http://www.swamc.org/html/southwest-alaska/aleutians-east-borough-raquo/cold-bay.php|publisher=[[Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference]]|access-date=October 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014054046/http://www.swamc.org/html/southwest-alaska/aleutians-east-borough-raquo/cold-bay.php|archive-date=October 14, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> As such, it is governed by a seven-member city council, which elects the city's [[mayor]] from among its membership. The current mayor is Harold Kremer. The city [[Clerk (municipal official)|clerk]] is currently a vacant position.

===Mayors===
The following individuals have served as the mayor of Cold Bay since its incorporation:

{| class="wikitable"
! Tenure
! Name
|-
| 1982–1984
| Monte M. Larsh <ref>{{Cite book|title=Alaska Municipal Officials Directory 1983|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|year=1983|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Alaska Municipal Officials Directory 1984|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|year=1984|page=25}}</ref>
|-
| 1984–1985
| Donald Dennis <ref>{{Cite book|title=Alaska Municipal Officials Directory 1985|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|year=1985|page=35}}</ref>
|-
| 1985 - 1988
| {{data missing|date=February 2020}}Clayton Brown <ref>Personal knowledge
</ref>
|- 
| 1988-1997
| Gerry Dias <ref>Gerry Dias</ref>
|-
| 1997–1998
| Alan Ellis <ref>{{Cite book|title=1998 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|date=January 1998|page=42}}</ref>
|-
| 1998–1999
| Jim Blowers <ref>{{Cite book|title=1999 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|date=January 1999|page=42}}</ref>
|-
| 1999–2004
| Harold (Happy) Kremer
|-
| 2004–2010
| John Maxwell <ref>{{Cite web|title = PUBLIC LANDS: 'The scariest plane ride of your life'|url = http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059976982/print|website = www.eenews.net|access-date = October 24, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=2005 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=Juneau|publisher=Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs / Alaska Municipal League|date=January 2005|page=43}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=2007 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory|location=Juneau|publisher=[[Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development]] / Alaska Municipal League|date=March 2007|page=44}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=2008 Alaska Community Directory|location=Anchorage|publisher=Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development, Division of Community & Regional Affairs|date=January 2008|page=69}}</ref>
|-
| 2010–2015
| Jorge Lopez
|-
| 2015–2017
| Candace Schaack 
|-
| 2017–2019
| Dailey Schaack
|-
| 2020–2021
| David Lyons 
|-
| 2021–2021
| Harold (Happy) Kremer
|-
|2021-2022
|Robert Nielsen
|-
|2022-2023
|Candace (Schaack) Nielsen
|}