Drago, Jan

Dates:
Active 1987
Active 2000

Biographical notes:

Jan Drago served on City Council from 1994 through 2009. In 1996, she became the first Councilmember since Liem Tuai (1972) to serve as Council President during her first full term in office. She served in this role for four years, in two non-consecutive terms. She chaired committees focused on finance and budget, business and labor, and transportation. Drago was educated at Douglass College, Rutgers University, where she studied psychology. Prior to joining City Council, she was a teacher (1973-1978) and a proprietor of a Haagen Dazs ice cream store (1980-1991). Drago unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2009. Throughout most of 2010, she served in an interim capacity on the King County Council in the seat vacated by Dow Constantine, who had been elected as King County Executive.

From the guide to the Jan Drago Records, 1984-2009, 1994-2009, (City of Seattle Seattle Municipal Archives)

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Subjects:

  • Alaskan Way Viaduct (Seattle, Wash.)
  • Bicycles and bicycling
  • City planning
  • City planning
  • Dogs
  • Economic development
  • Homelessness
  • Labor unions
  • Land use
  • Local transit
  • Monorails
  • Pedestrians
  • Public works
  • Regional planning
  • Seattle
  • Transportation
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • Women politicians

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  • Seattle (Wash.) (as recorded)