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==See also== |
Revision as of 04:42, 30 December 2018
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This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Mayor | From | To | Party | Notes | ||||
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Angus McNeill | 1836 | 1839 | None | President of Shreve Town Co. | ||||
John Octavius Sewall | 1839 | 1840 | Whig | First Elected Mayor | ||||
William Walton George, M.D. | 1840 | 1840 | Democratic | |||||
Samuel W. Briggs | 1841 | 1841 | None | |||||
William Walton George, M.D. | 1842 | 1843 | Democratic | |||||
John N. Howell | 1844 | 1844 | Democratic | |||||
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1845 | 1845 | Democratic | |||||
Lawrence Pike Crain | 1846 | 1847 | Democratic | |||||
Robert Nathaniel Wood | 1847 | 1847 | Whig/Know Nothing | Died in Mexico | ||||
John Morgan Landrum | 1848 | 1848 | Democratic | Elected to Congress | ||||
Rev. John Bryce | 1849 | 1849 | Democratic | |||||
Robert W. Cooke | 1850 | 1850 | Democratic | |||||
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1851 | 1853 | Democratic | |||||
John Wallace Jones | 1854 | 1857 | Democratic | |||||
Jonas Robeson | 1858 | 1858 | Democratic | |||||
John W. Pennall | 1859 | 1859 | Democratic | Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 | ||||
Jonas Robeson | 1860 | 1861 | Democratic | |||||
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1862 | 1863 | Democratic | |||||
John Gooch, Samuel Wells | 1864 | 1865 | Democratic | Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells. | ||||
Alexander Boarman | 1866 | 1867 | Republican. | Appointed by Union. | ||||
Lewis S. Markham | 1867 | 1867 | Dem. | Served only one month. | ||||
Martin Tally | 1867 | 1868 | Republican | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. | ||||
Jerome B. Gilmore | 1869 | 1871 | Republican | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. | ||||
William Rabun Shivers | 1871 | 1871 | Dem. | Was killed before he was able to serve term. | ||||
Moses Hodge Crowell | 1871 | 1872 | Republican | Appointed by the Union. | ||||
Joseph Taylor, M.D. | 1872 | 1873 | Dem. | Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist) | ||||
Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh | 1872 | 1873 | Republican | Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. | ||||
Samuel J. Ward | 1874 | 1874 | Democratic | Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales. | ||||
W. Nick Murphy | 1875 | 1878 | Republican/Democratic | Switched from Republican to Democrat. | ||||
Andrew Currie | 1878 | 1889 | Democratic | Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland. | ||||
Edward B. Herndon | 1890 | 1890 | Democratic | Elected to fill unfinished term. | ||||
Richard Tucker Vinson | 1891 | 1895 | Democratic | |||||
Reuben Neil McKellar | 1896 | 1900 | Democratic | Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens | ||||
Benjamin Holzman | 1900 | 1902 | Democratic | Born in Germany. | ||||
Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. | 1902 | 1906 | Democratic | Born in New Orleans. | ||||
Ernest Ralph Berstein | 1906 | 1908 | Democratic | |||||
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1908 | 1910 | Democratic | |||||
John H. Eastman | 1910 | 1914 | Democratic | First mayor under city commission government | ||||
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1914 | 1916 | Democratic | |||||
Robert Hodges Ward | 1916 | 1918 | Democratic | Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward. | ||||
John McWilliams Ford | 1918 | 1922 | Democratic | |||||
Lee Emmett Thomas | 1922 | 1930 | Democratic | Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916 | ||||
J. G. Palmer | 1930 | 1932 | Democratic | Louisiana State Judge. | ||||
John McWilliams Ford | 1932 | 1932 | Democratic | |||||
George W. Hardy, Jr. | 1932 | 1934 | Democratic | Louisiana State Judge. | ||||
Samuel S. Caldwell | 1934 | 1946 | Democratic | |||||
Clyde E. Fant | 1946 | 1954 | Democratic | |||||
James C. Gardner | 1954 | 1958 | Democratic | Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954 | ||||
Clyde E. Fant | 1958 | 1970 | Democratic | Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor. | ||||
L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. | 1970 | 1978 | Democratic | |||||
William T. Hanna, Jr. | 1978 | 1982 | Democratic | |||||
John Brennan Hussey | 1982 | 1990 | Democratic | |||||
Hazel Beard | 1990 | 1994 | Republican | First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era | ||||
Robert W. "Bo" Williams | 1994 | 1998 | Republican | |||||
Keith Hightower | 1998 | 2006 | Democratic | |||||
Cedric B. Glover | 2006 | 2014 | Democratic | First African-American mayor | ||||
Ollie Tyler | 2014 | 2018 | Democratic | First African-American female mayor | Adrian Perkins | 2018 | Incumbent | [[Democratic Party (United States) |
See alsoNotesOn December 8th, 2018, Adrian D. Perkins was elected Mayor of Shreveport and will succeed Ollie Tyler on December 29th, 2018. External links |