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William H. Briare
18th Mayor of Las Vegas
In office 1975–1987
Preceded by	Oran K. Gragson
Succeeded by	Ron Lurie
Personal details
Born	William Hubert Briare (1930-07-13)July 13, 1930 Long Beach, California, U.S.
Died	December 8, 2006(2006-12-08) (aged 76) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Resting place	Woodlawn Cemetery, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	St. Ignatius College Preparatory
Alma mater	City College of San Francisco[1] University of San Francisco[2]
Profession	Politician
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William Hubert Briare (July 13, 1930 – December 8, 2006) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas from 1975 to 1987.^[3] Briare was a member of the Democratic Party.^[3]

Briare was born, 13 July 1930, in Long Beach,^{[citation needed]} Los Angeles County, California, ^[4] to Ruth Ann (née Lynch) and Army engineer William W. Briare (K6SA^[5]),^[6] with a brother, Vincent.^[7][8] Briare grew up in San Francisco.^[9]

In 1948, Briare was graduated from St. Ignatius High School,^[10] and later, University of San Francisco.^[11][9]

In 1955, Briare moved to Las Vegas.^{[citation needed]}

Briare was a businessman, in insurance, real estate, and a cookie shop.^[12]

In 1961—1963, Briare served in the fifty-first session of the Nevada Assembly.^[13][14]

1963-1971, Briare served as a Clark County Commissioner.^[15]

In 1971, he lost his first campaign for mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada to Oran K. Gragson.

In 1975, Briare was elected mayor of Las Vegas, in his next attempt, defeating Harry Reid.^[16][17]

In 1976, he visited in Israel in a mission of 16 mayors from US cities who visited the Knesset.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, Briare was third-termed-out as Mayor of Las Vegas.

In 1992, Briare was the Executive Director of Las Vegas Downtown Progress Association.^[18]

In 1994, Briare ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, but lost to Lonnie Hammargren.^[16]

Briare was so positive about the city that people would ask him if he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.^[3] His obituary in the Las Vegas Review Journal noted that Briare's "public tenure came during a key time when control of casinos shifted from organized crime figures to corporations."^[3]

Briare has a twin brother, and two of his five sons are twins.^[19] His only daughter, Linda, gave birth to twin girls.^[19]

Briare married Leona^[9] "Jo" (? - 1998), having 6 children, and after her death, he married Susan.^[20]

On 13 May 1966, Briare and two other fishermen were rescued from a sand bar on Lake Mead.^[21]

Briare died, 8 December 2006, of complications from Parkinson's disease^[22] and Alzheimer’s disease,^[20] in Las Vegas at the age of 76, and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the City of Las Vegas.^{[citation needed]}

• William H. Briare Special Collections and Archives, Lied Library, UNLV
• Bill Briare Family Park - City of Las Vegas, Nevada
• William H. Briare at Find a Grave
• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1582015/
• John Jeffery Auer · 2019 · Movement and Change: Perspectives on Urban Gay Tourism and Gay Community Building of the Past (gay Las Vegas) Geography Doctorate Dissertation University of Nevada, Reno http://hdl.handle.net/11714/6006 https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/6006

"Mayor Briare has asked an opinion on doing away with the miscellaneous 'M-7' licensing category under which a bathhouse would fall."