List of mayors of Kaohsiung

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This is a list of mayors of Kaohsiung.

[edit] Mayors

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Japanese rule era[1]
# Name Office
1 Tasuke Iwamoto (岩本 多助) 1924 – 1927
2 Genjurō Saitō (齋藤 玄壽郎)[2] 1927 – 1929
3 Masaharu Imai (今井 昌治)[3] 1929 – 1932
4 Gisaburō Kobayashi (小林 儀三郎)[4] 1932 – 1934
5 Shigeharu Matsuo (松尾 繁治)[5] 1934 – 1938
6 Tairiku Munetō (宗藤 大陸)[6] 1938 – 1941
7 Takeshi Kojima (小島 猛)[7] 1941 – 1943
8 Takeo Yokoyama (橫山 竹雄) 1943 – 1944
9 Otohiko Nakamatsu (中松 乙彥)[8] 1944 – 1945
Provincial municipality era
# Name Office Political party Term
10 Lien Mou (連謀)[9] 1945 – 1946 Kuomintang -
11 Huang Chung-tu (黃仲圖)[9] 1946 – 1947 Kuomintang -
12 Huang Chiang (黃強)[9] 1947 – 1949 Kuomintang -
13 Liou Hsiang (劉翔)[9] 1949 – 1950 Kuomintang -
14 Chen Pau-tai (陳保泰)[9] 1950 – 1951 Kuomintang -
15 Hsieh Cheng-chiang (謝掙強)[10] 1951 – 1957 Kuomintang 1
2
16 Chen Wu-chang (陳武璋) 1957 – 1960 Kuomintang 3
17 Chen Chi-chuan (陳啟川) 1960 – 1968 Kuomintang 4
5
18 Yang Chin-hu (楊金虎) 1968 – 1973 Kuomintang 6
Direct municipality era
# Name Office Political party Term
19 Wang Yu-yuin (王玉雲)[9] 1973 – 1981 Kuomintang 7[11]
20 Yang Chin-tsung (楊金欉)[9] 1981 – 1982 Kuomintang -
21 Hsu Shui-te (許水德)[9] 1982 – 1985 Kuomintang -
22 Su Nan-cheng (蘇南成)[9] 1985 – 1990 Kuomintang -
23 Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) 1990 – 1998[12] Kuomintang 1
24 Frank Hsieh (謝長廷)[13] 1998 – 2005 Democratic Progressive Party 2
25 Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) 2005 as acting Democratic Progressive Party 3
26 Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭)[14] 2005 – 2006 as acting Democratic Progressive Party
27 Chen Chu (陳菊)[15] 2006 – Democratic Progressive Party 4
  1. ^ During this era, Kaohsiung was called "Takao" (高雄; たかを). All of the mayors were appointed by the Empire of Japan.
  2. ^ Given name may have been read Genjirō
  3. ^ Given name may have been read Shōji or Masaji
  4. ^ Given name may have been read Gizaburō
  5. ^ Given name may have been read Shigeji
  6. ^ Family name may have been read Munefuji
  7. ^ Family name may have been read Koshima
  8. ^ Given name may have been read Otsuhiko
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Appointed mayors.
  10. ^ First elected mayor of Kaohsiung.
  11. ^ Served as elected mayor from 1973 to 1979.
  12. ^ Appointed from 1990 to 1994.
  13. ^ First non-Kuomintang mayor of Kaohsiung.
  14. ^ First female mayor of Kaohsiung.
  15. ^ First non-acting female mayor of Kaohsiung.

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