List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia

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This is a List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia, arranged chronologically.

The following is a list of past and present mayors of the city of Richmond, Virginia:

Mayor	Term Began	Term Ended	Notes
William Foushee	1782	1783	Richmond's first mayor.^[1]^[2]
John James Beckley	July 1, 1783	July 6, 1784
Robert Mitchell	July 7, 1784	1785
John Harvie	1785	1786
William Pennock	1786	December 10, 1786
Richard Adams	December 11, 1786	February 21, 1788
John James Beckley	February 21, 1788	March 9, 1789
Alexander Roberts	March 9, 1789	1790
Robert Boyd	1790	1790	(acting mayor)
Robert Mitchell	1790	1791
John Barrett	1791	1792
Robert Mitchell	1792	1793
John Barrett	1793	1794
Robert Mitchell	1794	1795
Andrew Dunscomb	1795	1796
Robert Mitchell	1796	1797
James McClurg	1797	1798
John Barrett	1798	1799
George Nicholson	1799	1800
James McClurg	1800	1801
William Richardson	1801	1802
John Foster	1802	1803
James McClurg	1803	1804
Robert Mitchell	1804	1805
William DuVal	1805	1806
Edward Carrington	1806	1810
David Bullock	1810	1811
Benjamin Tate	1811	1812
Thomas Wilson	1812	1813
John Greenhow	1813	1814
Thomas Wilson	1814	1815
Robert Gamble	1815	1816
Thomas Wilson	1816	1817
William H. Fitzwhylson	1817	1818
Thomas Wilson	1818	1818
Francis Wicker	1818	1819	(acting mayor)
John Adams	1819	1826
Joseph Tate	1826	1839	(died in office)
Francis Wicker	1839	1840
William Lambert	1840	1852	(died in office)
Samuel Pulliam	1852	1853
Joseph Carrington Mayo	1853	April 3, 1865
N. A. Sturdevant	April 1865	April 1865
David J. Saunders	April 1865	April 1866
Joseph Carrington Mayo	April 1866	May 4, 1868
George Chahoon	May 4, 1868	1870
Henry Keeling Ellyson	1870	1871	George Chahoon was the incumbent mayor. For seventeen months there was uncertainty about who was the legitimate mayor. The resulting Supreme Court of Appeals case resulted in masses of people packing the third floor of the Virginia State Capitol building in 1870, leading to a structural collapse. The case was resolved with the election of Anthony Michael Keily in 1871.^[3]
Anthony Michael Keily	1871	1876
William Cornelius Carrington	1876	1888
James Taylor Ellyson	1888	1894
Richard M. Taylor	1894	1904
Carlton McCarthy	1904	1908
David C. Richardson	1908	1912
George Ainslie	1912	1924
John Fulmer Bright	1924	1940
Gordon Barbour Ambler	1940	1944
William C. Herbert	1944	1946	(died in office)
Horace Hall Edwards	1946	1948
W. Stirling King	1948	1950	In 1948, a new city charter replaced the bicameral city council with a single nine-person body whose members were elected at large. The new charter also weakened the mayor's power by implementing a city manager system.
T. Nelson Parker	1950	1952
Edward Ellis Haddock	1952	1954
Thomas P. Bryan	1954	1956
F. Henry Garber	1956	1958
A. Scott Anderson	1958	1960
Claude W. Woodward	1960	1962
Eleanor Parker Sheppard	1962	1964	(first female mayor)
Morrill Martin Crowe	1964	1968
Phil J. Bagley, Jr.	1968	1970
Thomas J. Bliley, Jr.	1970	1977	Between 1972 and 1976, city council elections were not held in the City of Richmond by order of the United States Department of Justice (see City of Richmond v. United States).
Henry Marsh, Jr.	1977	1982	(first African American mayor of Richmond)
Roy A. West	1982	1988
Geline Bowman Williams	1988	1990	(first time both mayor and vice mayor were female)
Walter T. Kenney	1990	1994
Leonidas Young	1994	1996
Larry E. Chavis	1996	1998
Timothy Michael Kaine	1998	2000
Rudolph "Rudy" C. McCollum, Jr.	2000	2004
L. Douglas Wilder	2005	present	City Council elections were moved from April to November to coincide with national and statewide elections. With the election of L. Douglas Wilder in 2005, the mayor is now elected at-large (by the entire city rather than by members of city council).