Harry T. Bagley

Harry Taylor Bagley (December 23, 1874 – January 20, 1919) was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he was raised in Washington County, Oregon, where he practiced law and was a local official. He also served as a two-term mayor of Hillsboro, the county seat, and under his administration the city's public works were modernized and roads paved for the first time.

Early life Harry Bagley was born on December 23, 1874, in Canton, Ohio, to William and Sarah (née Robinson) Bagley. The couple had wed in England in 1866 before immigrating to the United States that same year. He then attended high school in neighboring Portland beginning in 1890. On January 18, 1899, he married Cora M. Rhea, a native of Morrow County in Eastern Oregon, and the daughter of a banker in Heppner. Meanwhile, brother George helped represent the detective suing the county, with the detective winning the lawsuit and $2,000. Merlo had originally been convicted at trial in Hillsboro, where Harry's brother George served as the judge. A Republican, he was elected as the mayor of Hillsboro in December 1910, and served in that position from December 5, 1910, until January 4, 1915. Bagley had run unopposed on a progressive ticket with a promise to start paving streets in Hillsboro, and garnered 326 votes out of 329 votes cast in the election.

In May 1911, he signed six ordinances that ordered the paving of 12 blocks of streets in the central business district. Bagley led the official Hillsboro welcome to the arrival of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern electric railroad in January 1914. Also while mayor he appointed his brother George, and others, to a special water commission to study how to replace the city's inadequate water supply system. The commission recommended a gravity-run system that was estimated to cost $131,000 to build. He was buried at the Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery.