List of mayors for Washington, D.C.
The cities of Washington and Georgetown also had mayors from 1802 -1871 . Governors administered the District of Columbia from 1871 -1874 . A Board of Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States adminstered the District from 1874 -1974 .
Mayors of Washington City Until 1820 the mayor was appointed
Robert Brent 1802-1812Daniel Rapine 1812-1813 James H. Blake 1813-1817 Benjamin G. Orr 1817-1819 Samuel N. Smallwood 1819-1822 (Smallwood was elected mayor in 1820) Thomas Carbery 1822-1824 Samuel N. Smallwood 1824 Roger C. Weightman 1824-1827 Joseph Gales, Jr. 1827-1830 John P. Van Ness 1830-1834 William A. Bradley 1834-1836 Peter Force 1836-1840 William Winston Seaton 1840-1850 Walter Lenox 1850-1852 John W. Maury 1852-1854 John Thomas Towers 1854-1856 William B. Magruder 1856-1858 James G. Berret 1858-1861 Richard Wallach 1861-1868 Sayles J. Bowen 1868-1870 Matthew Gault Emery 1870-1871
Mayors of Georgetown Robert Peter 1790 Thomas Beale 1791 Uriah Forrest 1792 John Threlkeld 1793 Peter Casenave 1794 Thomas Turner 1795 Daniel Reintzel 1796 Lloyd Beall 1797-1799 Daniel Reintzel 1799-1804 Thomas Corcoran 1805 Daniel Reintzel 1806-1807 Thomas Corcoran 1808-1810 David Wiley 1811 Thomas Corcoran 1812 John Peter 1813-1818 Henry Foxall 1819-1820 John Peter 1821-1822 John Cox 1823-1845 Henry Addison 1845-1857 Richard R. Crawford 1857-1861 Henry Addison 1861-1867 Charles D. Welch 1867-1869 Henry M. Sweeney 1869-1871
Governors of the District of Columbia Henry Cooke 1871-1873 Alexander Shepherd 1873-1874
Presidents of the Board of Commissioners William Dennison , 1874-1878Seth Ledyard Phelps, 1878-1879 Josiah Dent, 1879-1882 Joseph Rodman West, 1882-1883 James Barker Edmonds, 1883-1886 William Benning Webb, 1886-1889 John Watkinson Douglass, 1889-1893 John Wesley Ross, 1893-1898 John Brewer Wright, 1898-1900 Henry Brown Floyd Macfarland, 1898-1900 Cuno Hugo Rudolph, 1910-1913 Oliver Peck Newman, 1913-1917 Louis Brownlow, 1917-1920 Charles Willauer Kutz, 1920 Cuno Hugo Rudolph, 1920-1926 Proctor L. Dougherty, 1926-1930 Luther Halsey Reichelderfer, 1930-1933 Melvin Colvin Hazen, 1933-1941 John Russell Young , 1941-1952F. Joseph Donohue, 1952-1953 Samuel Spencer, 1953-1956 Robert E. McLaughlin, 1956-1961 Walter Nathan Tobriner, 1961-1967 Walter Washington (Democrat), 1967-1975
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