List of mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio

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Before 1925 and since 1999, the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been elected in a separate, partisan election. From 1925 through 1998, the mayor was chosen by the city council from among its nine members. With the Democratic-Charterite coalition of 1971, the two parties worked out a power-sharing plan, which, starting in 1973, resulted in a rotating mayorship. After a few years of rotation, they decided that the city council member who received the most votes in the election would automatically become mayor. In 1999, Charlie Luken became the first mayor to take office under a restored system of direct mayoral election.

The Charter Party is a local third-party founded in 1924 that has successfully elected members of the city council and mayors. Until 1961, many Democrats ran as Charterites. The party focuses exclusively on local government; thus, many Charterites switch to a major party when seeking office outside Cincinnati.

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Dates Name Life Dates Party
1802-1803 David Ziegler 1748-1811  
1805-1806 James Findlay    
1810-1811 James Findlay 1770-1835  
1812 Martin Baum 1765-1831  
1815-1819 William Corry 1779-1833  
1819-1831 Isaac G. Burnet 1784-1856  
1831-1833 Elisha Hotchkiss 1778-1858  
1833-1843 Samuel W. Davies 1776-1843  
1843-1851 Henry E. Spencer 1807-1882  
1851-1853 Mark P. Taylor   Democratic
1853-1855 David T. Snelbaker 1804-1867 Democratic
1855-1857 James J. Faran 1808-1892 Democratic
1857-1859 Nicholas W. Thomas 1810-1864 Whig
1859-1861 Richard M. Bishop 1812-1893 Democratic
1861-1863 George Hatch   Democratic
1863-1866 Leonard A. Harris 1824-1890  
1866-1869 Charles F. Wilstach 1818-1882  
1869-1871 John F. Torrence 1819-1883  
1871-1873 S. S. Davis 1817-1896 Republican
1873-1877 George W. C. Johnston 1828-1879 Democratic
1877-1879 Robert M. Moore 1816-1880 Republican
1879-1881 Charles Jacob Jr. 1834-1913  
1881-1883 William F. Means   Democratic
1883-1885 Thomas J. Stephens 1823-1892 Democratic
1885-1889 Amor Smith Jr. 1840-1915 Republican
1889-1894 John B. Mosby 1845-1928 Republican
1894-1897 John A. Caldwell 1852-1927 Republican
1897-1900 Gustav Tafel 1830-1908 Democratic
1900-1905 Julius Fleischmann 1871-1925 Republican
1906-1907 Edward J. Dempsey 1858-1929 Democratic
1908-1909 Leopold Markbreit 1842-1909 Republican
1909 John Galvin 1862-1922 Republican
1910-1911 Louis Schwab 1850-1926 Republican
1912-1913 Henry T. Hunt 1879-1956 Democratic
1914-1915 Frederick S. Spiegel 1855-1925 Republican
1916-1917 George Puchta 1860-1937 Republican
1918-1921 John Galvin (2nd) 1862-1922 Republican
1922-1925 George Carrel 1865-1949  
1926-1929 Murray Seasongood 1878-1983 Charterite
1930-1937 Russell Wilson 1876-1946  
1938-1947 James G. Stewart 1881-? Republican
1947 Carl W. Rich 1898-1972 Republican
1948-1951 Albert D. Cash 1897-1952 Charterite
(Democratic)
1951-1953 Carl W. Rich (2nd) 1898-1972 Republican
1953-1954 Edward N. Waldvogel 1894-1954  
1954 Dorothy N. Dolbey 1908-?  
1954 Carl W. Rich (3rd) 1898-1972 Republican
1955-1957 Charles Phelps Taft II 1897-1983 Charterite
(Republican)
1957-1960 Donald D. Clancy 1921-? Republican
1960-1967 Walton H. Bachrach 1904-1989 Republican
1967-1971 Eugene P. Ruehlmann 1925-? Republican
1971 Willis D. Gradison Jr. 1928- Republican
1971-1972 Thomas A. Luken 1925- Democratic
1972-1975 Theodore M. Berry 1905-2000 Charterite
1975-1976 Bobbie L. Sterne   Charterite
1976-1977 James T. Luken   Democratic
1977-1978 Gerald N. "Jerry" Springer 1944- Democratic
1978-1979 Bobbie L. Sterne (2nd)   Charterite
1979-1980 J. Kenneth Blackwell 1948- Charterite
(Republican)
1980-1982 David S. Mann 1939- Democratic
1982-1983 Thomas B. Brush   Charterite
1983-1984 Arnold L. Bortz   Charterite
1984-1991 Charles J. Luken 1951- Democratic
1991 David S. Mann (2nd) 1939- Democratic
1991-1993 Dwight Tillery   Democratic
1993-1999 Roxanne Qualls 1953- Democratic
1999-2005 Charles J. Luken (2nd) 1951- Democratic
2006- Mark Mallory 1962- Democratic