Philip Wasserman

{{short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Philip Wasserman

| image = Philip Wasserman.png

| office = 20th Mayor of Portland, Oregon

| caption =

| term_start = 1871

| term_end = 1873

| predecessor = Bernard Goldsmith

| successor = Henry Failing

| birth_date = December 1828

| birth_place = Kingdom of Bavaria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|2|26|1828|12|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Portland, Oregon

| party = Republican

| profession = Banker, politician

}}

Philip Wasserman (December 1828 – February 26, 1895){{cite news|title=Philip Wasserman Dead|newspaper=The Morning Oregonian|date=February 27, 1895|url=http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1895-02-27/ed-1/seq-5/ |accessdate=2015-10-08|page=5}} was the mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States from 1871 to 1873. He was a pioneer banker and co-founder of the First National Bank.{{cite book |last=MacColl|first=E. Kimbark|authorlink=E. Kimbark MacColl|title=The Growth of A City|chapter=Chapter 3: The Early Jewish Communities|location=Portland, Oregon|publisher=The Georgian Press Company|year=1979|isbn=0-9603408-1-5|page=49}}

Wasserman moved to Portland from San Francisco in 1858 and entered the tobacco and cigar business with his brother, Herman. He was part of a group of successful early Jews in Portland who exhibited a strong sense of public responsibility and appetite for public life, along with his predecessor (and Portland's first Jewish mayor), Bernard Goldsmith.

He died of heart failure at his home in Portland on February 26, 1895.