This a listing of past (and present) mayors (burgesses and recorders when noted) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
| Mayor | Term | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Robinson (Pittsburgh) | 1794–c. 1800 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh, Arrested by President George Washington for rebel activity during the Whiskey Rebellion | |
| John Park (Pittsburgh) | 1800–1801 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh | |
| Dr. George Stevenson | 1801–1802 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh | |
| Isaac Craig | 1802–1803 | Federalist[1] | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh |
| James O'Hara | 1803–1804 | Federalist | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh, formerly 6th Quartermaster General of the United States Army and Revolutionary War veteran. |
| General Pressley Neville | 1804–1805 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh, Revolutionary War veteran. | |
| General John Wilkins | c. 1805–c. 1812 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh, formerly 7th and last Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army | |
| William Steele (Pittsburgh) | 1812–1813 | "Chief Burgess" of Borough of Pittsburgh | |
| Ebenezer Denny | 1816–1817 | First "appointed" Mayor after city charter, resigned from office with health concerns, Revolutionary War veteran. | |
| John Darragh | 1817–1825 | Appointed by City Council, formerly president of the bank of Pittsburgh. | |
| John M. Snowden | 1825–1828 | Appointed by City Council, formerly president of the bank of Pittsburgh and county treasurer. | |
| Magnus Miller Murray | 1828–1830 | Appointed by City Council | |
| Matthew B. Lowrie | 1830–1831 | Anti-Masonic, Anti-Jackson | Appointed by City Council, brother was a U.S. Senator and son became Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. |
| Magnus Miller Murray | 1831–1832 | Appointed by City Council | |
| Samuel Pettigrew | 1832–1836 | Appointed by City Council, later won the first mayoral election | |
| Dr. Jonas R. McClintock | 1836–1839 | Democrat | Elected mayor at the age of 28, became the first man to assume the office from a general election. Later led a Union company in the American Civil War. |
| William Little | 1839–1840 | ||
| William W. Irwin | 1840–1841 | Whig | Elected to congress and appointed United States Ambassador to Denmark after leaving office. |
| James Thomson | 1841–1842 | ||
| Alexander Hay | 1842–1845 | After office he was commander in the Mexican War, and Captain in the Civil War. | |
| William J. Howard | 1845–1846 | Long time president of the "Guardians of the Poor", forerunner of the Salvation Army | |
| Dr. William Kerr | 1846–1847 | ||
| Gabriel Adams | 1847–1849 | After office was appointed state judge | |
| John Herron | 1849–1850 | Before office was a captain in the Mexican War, hero of the Siege of Veracruz. | |
| Joseph Barker | 1850–1851 | Anti-Catholic | Elected while serving a year in jail after protesting against the Catholic Church. He was illiterate but popular during a xenophobic time in the US. He is probably the only elected leader in world history to meet his death by "train decapitation". |
| John B. Guthrie | 1851–1853 | Father of future mayor George Guthrie, served in Mexican War, was the long time Customs Collector for Pittsburgh | |
| Robert M. Riddle | 1853–1854 | Republican | Formerly Postmaster of Pittsburgh, oversaw Cholera epidemic response |
| Ferdinand E. Volz | 1854–1856 | ||
| William Bingham | 1856–1857 | Republican | |
| Henry A. Weaver | 1857–1860 | After office served as U.S. Collector of Revenue for Pittsburgh | |
| George Wilson | 1860–1862 | Formerly Pittsburgh Public Schools Director | |
| Benair C. Sawyer | 1862–1864 | After office moved to Colorado then to California making a fortune in mining | |
| James Lowry, Jr. | 1864–1866 | ||
| William C. McCarthy | 1866–1868 | Formerly a legend as a City fire fighter and commander, during administration ended the police practice of assuring "All is Well" on the hour, later served as city controller. | |
| James Blackmore | 1868–1869 | Formerly Chief Clerk of City | |
| Jared M. Brush | 1869–1872 | Formerly city councilor, served as a minister during the Civil War. | |
| James Blackmore | 1872–1875 | Formerly Chief Clerk of City | |
| William C. McCarthy | 1875–1878 | Formerly a legend as a Pittsburgh Fire Fighter and commander, during administration ended the police practice of assuring "All is Well" on the hour, later served as city controller. | |
| Robert Liddell | 1878–1881 | Before and after office was a brewer and liquor dealer. | |
| Robert W. Lyon | 1881–1884 | Earned two Purple Hearts in the Civil War, oil businessman before being elected, worked in a steel mill after leaving office. | |
| Andrew "Andy" Fulton | 1884–1887 | Former city councilman; temporarily retired to breed horses in Colorado; later served as county director of the Division of Weights and Measures | |
| William McCallin | 1887–1890 | Former County Coroner and County Sherriff | |
| Henry I. Gourley | 1890–1893 | Former city councilman; became city clerk after office | |
| Bernard J. McKenna | 1893–1896 | Former city councilman and firefighter | |
| Henry P. Ford | 1896–1899 | Industrialist, with interests in knife manufacturing. | |
| William J. Diehl | 1899–1901 | Republican | Former Deputy Sheriff; impeached on corruption charges |
| Adam M. Brown | 1901 | Former Court of Common Pleas judge; California Gold Rush speculator; earned the nickname of "Major" due to his military service | |
| Joseph O. Brown | 1901–1903 | Former Allegheny County Prothonotary and city Director of Public Safety; died in office of a heart attack | |
| William B. Hayes | 1903–1906 | Democrat | Industrialst, with interests in coal and lumber |
| George W. Guthrie | 1906–1909 | Republican | Attorney; son of former mayor John Guthrie; served as United States Ambassador to Japan after office. |
| William A. Magee | 1909–1914 | Republican | Former Allegheny County Assistant District Attorney and city councilman |
| Joseph G. Armstrong | 1914–1918 | Republican | Former city councilman and Allegheny County Coroner; nicknamed "Joe the Builder" for his extensive public works projects |
| Edward V. Babcock | 1918–1922 | Republican | Formerly city councilman; later served as Allegheny County Commissioner; personally purchased 4,000 acres (16 km2) for county parklands. Purchased thousands of acres of south Florida timberland, estate sold to the state for conservation in the 1990s. |
| William A. Magee | 1922–1926 | Republican | Former City Council President |
| Charles H. Kline | 1926–1933 | Republican | Former State Representative and State Senator; convicted in 1932 by jury on 49 counts of corruption, but charges later overturned on appeal; resigned due to party pressure over corruption charges |
| John S. Herron | 1933–1934 | Republican | Former City Council President |
| William N. McNair | 1934–1936 | Democrat | Idealistic attorney; commended for his honesty, but criticized for his inability to get along with city council or the bureaucracy; arrested in 1935 for failing to authorize the return of a fine to an illegal gambler whose conviction had been overturned; resigned due to political infighting and pressure from state party chairman David Lawrence |
| Cornelius D. "Conn" Scully | 1936–1946 | Democrat | Former City Council President; had his driver's license suspended for three months in 1943 for violating wartime gasoline rationing requirements |
| David L. Lawrence | 1946–1959 | Democrat | Named one of the all-time 50 greatest American mayors; elected Governor in 1958; had political career nearly ruined because of indictment over kickbacks in coal contracts, but was acquitted by grand jury; former Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chairman, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and U.S. Collector of Revenue; considered a "king maker" by Democratic Party Conventions due to his crafting of compromise candidates of U.S. Presidents Truman and the Kennedy/Johnson tickets. |
| Thomas J. "Tom" Gallagher | 1959 | Democrat | Former State Representative and City Council President; became mayor at age 75 |
| Joseph M. "Joe" Barr | 1959–1970 | Democrat | Former State Senator |
| Peter F. "Pete" Flaherty | 1970–1977 | "Fusion" Democrat nominated by both parties | Former city councilman; resigned after he was appoitned Deputy U.S. Attorney General by President Jimmy Carter; Democratic nominee for Governor in 1978, and for U.S. Senate in 1974 and 1980, losing all three races by close margins |
| Richard S. Caliguiri | 1977–1988 | Independent/Democrat | Former City Council President; won 1978 election as an independent, after initially deciding not to run due to a lack of support from party leaders; died in office from amyloidosis |
| Sophie F. Masloff | 1988–1994 | Democrat | Former City Council President; began her career in Pittsburgh politics as a City Hall secretary in 1929 at age 18 |
| Thomas J. "Tom" Murphy, Jr. | 1994–2006 | Democrat | Former State Representative; was investigated by the U.S. Attorney and forced to sign non-indictment agreement stemming from allegations that the city's firefighters' union was exempted from citywide pay cuts in exchange for electoral support |
| Robert E. "Bob" O'Connor, Jr. | 2006 | Democrat | Former City Council President; died in office from a brain tumor. |
| Luke R. Ravenstahl | 2006–present | Democrat | Former City Council President; became mayor at age 26, making him the youngest mayor of a top 100 city. |