Paul Schell
| Paul E. S. Schell | |
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Paul Schell, 1999
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| 50th Mayor of Seattle | |
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In office January 1, 1998 – January 1, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Norm Rice |
| Succeeded by | Greg Nickels |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Paul Schlachtenhaufen October 8, 1937 Pomeroy, Iowa, U.S |
| Died | July 27, 2014 (aged 76) Seattle, Washington, U.S |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
University of Iowa Columbia Law School |
| Profession | lawyer, urban planner, real estate developer |
Paul E. S. Schell (born Paul Ervin Schlachtenhaufen; October 8, 1937 – July 27, 2014), served as the 50th mayor of Seattle, Washington. Schell died at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington following heart surgery.
The oldest of six children of Lutheran minister Ervin Schlachtenhaufen and nurse Gertrude Reiff Schlachtenhaufen, Paul Schell grew up in the small farm town of Pomeroy, Iowa and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, where he played linebacker on the school football team. He also worked as a short-order cook and a fireman. Schell transferred to the University of Iowa. After graduation he went on to law school at Columbia University in New York. There he met his future wife, Pam, a registered nurse. They married on the day he graduated from law school — a double celebration scheduled so his father would have to pay for only one plane ticket.
In New York, Schell took a position at the Dewey Ballantine law firm, where he specialized in corporate finance. During his time there, “Schlachtenhaufen” became “Schell,” a truncation he described as "practical, not political," since the longer name wouldn’t fit on computer punch cards used at the time. He worked as a summer law clerk in Portland.
In 1967, Paul and Pam Schell moved to Seattle so he could take a job with the Perkins Coie law firm, practicing business and securities law. Their daughter Jamie joined the family in January 1971.
After a few years with the Perkins firm, Schell left to help form a new law firm: Hillis, Schell, Phillips, Cairncross, Clark and Martin.
He also engaged in civic activism. He joined other urban activists with Allied Arts of Seattle in the 1971 campaign to save the Pike Place Market from a proposed redevelopment. He left legal practice for civic affairs in 1973, when Mayor Wes Uhlman appointed him director of the Seattle Department of Community Development. During his term with DCD Schell oversaw the Market's preservation and rebuilding. As President of Allied Arts he led the successful effort to establish "One Percent for Art" in 1973 — with Seattle thus becoming one of the first cities to adopt an approach that has since become the national standard. A member of the Democratic Party, he first ran for mayor in 1977, but lost to Charles Royer.
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