Parker was the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. She was Houston’s second female mayor. Mayor Kathy Whitmire, the first female mayor, led City Hall from 1982 to 1991. Parker has led ...

Languages: English, French U.S. Representative Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston, has died at 70, Houston Mayor John Whitmire announced. The Democrat was just two months into his first ...

Turner served eight years as Houston’s mayor, leading the nation’s fourth-largest city through various challenges, including devastating flooding from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Before being ...