List of mayors of Washington, D.C.

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 1802-1812
• Daniel 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, 1874-1878
• Seth 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, 1941-1952
• F. Joseph Donohue, 1952-1953
• Samuel Spencer, 1953-1956
• Robert E. McLaughlin, 1956-1961
• Walter Nathan Tobriner, 1961-1967
• Walter Washington[?], 1967-1975

Home Rule Mayors

• Walter Washington[?], 1975-1979
• Marion S. Barry, 1979-1991
• Sharon Pratt Kelly[?], 1991-1995 (elected as Sharon Pratt Dixon, but remarried during her term)
• Marion S. Barry, 1995-1999
• Anthony A. Williams[?], 1999-Present