This is a list of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee.
Mayor | Term |
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Marcus B. Winchester | 1827–1829 |
Isaac Rawlings | 1829–1831 |
Seth Wheatley | 1831–1832 |
Robert Lawrence | 1832–1833 |
Isaac Rawlings | 1833–1836 |
Enoch Banks | 1836–1837 |
John H. Morgan | 1837–1838 |
Enoch Banks | 1838–1839 |
Thomas Dixon | 1839–1841 |
William Spickernagle | 1841–1842 |
Edwin Hickman | 1842–1845 |
Jesse J. Finley | 1845–1846 |
Edwin Hickman | 1846–1847 |
Enoch Banks | 1847–1848 |
Gardner E. Locke | 1848–1849 |
Edwin Hickman | 1849–1852 |
A. B. Taylor | 1852–1855 |
A. H. Douglass | 1855–1856 |
T. B. Carroll | 1856–1857 |
R. D. Baugh | 1857–1861 |
John Park | 1861–1864 |
Thomas H. Harris | 1864 |
Channing Richards | 1864–1865 |
John Park | 1865–1866 |
William Lofland | 1866–1868 |
McDavitt | 1868 |
John W. Leftwich | 1868–1869 |
J. T. Swayne | 1869 |
John W. Leftwich | 1869–1870 |
John Johnson | 1870–1874 |
John Loague | 1874–1876 |
John R. Flippin | 1876–1879 |
(none) [1] | 1879–1895 |
W. L. Clapp | 1895–1898 |
J. J. Williams | 1898–1906 |
James H. Malone | 1906–1910 |
Edward H. Crump | 1910–1915 |
George C. Love | 1915–1916 |
Thomas C. Ashcroft | 1916–1917 |
Harry H. Litty | 1917–1918 |
Frank L. Monteverde | 1918–1919 |
Rowlett Paine | 1920–1927 |
Watkins Overton | 1928–1939 |
Edward H. Crump | 1940 |
Joseph Patrick Boyle | 1940 |
Walter Chandler | 1940–1946 |
Joseph Patrick Boyle | 1946 |
Sylvanus W. Polk, Sr. | 1946–1947 |
James J. Pleasants, Jr. | 1947–1949 |
Watkins Overton | 1949–1953 |
Frank T. Tobey | 1953–1955 |
Walter Chandler | 1955 |
Edmund Orgill | 1956–1959 |
Henry Loeb | 1960–1963 |
Claude Armour | 1963 |
William B. Ingram | 1963–1967 |
Henry Loeb | 1968–1971 |
J. Wyeth Chandler | 1972–1982 |
J.O. Patterson, Jr. | 1982 |
Wallace Madewell | 1982 |
Richard C. Hackett | 1982–1991 |
W. W. Herenton | 1992–2009 |
Myron Lowery | 2009 (pro tem) |
A C Wharton | elected 2009 |
[1] As a result of a yellow fever epidemic in 1879, Memphis lost so much of its population that it was disincorporated and was not rechartered until 1895. This accounts for the absence of a mayor during the period 1879 – 1893. See the article History of Memphis, Tennessee for more information.