William S. Pilcher

William S. Pilcher
Mayor

William Stanton Pilcher (January 5, 1803–August 14, 1858) was the eleventh mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, serving from 1857 to 1858.

Pilcher was born in Stafford County, Virginia to a wealthy manufacturing family. He came to Louisville in 1833 to study law.

Pilcher unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor in 1844 as a Jacksonian Democrat, but was elected mayor of Louisville on the Know Nothing party on April 4, 1857 in a landslide. However, by May 13, 1858 he was too ill to continue his duties, and he died later that year, becoming the first mayor of Louisville to die in office.

References

Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County (2nd edition ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.
"William S. Pilcher". The Encyclopedia of Louisville (1 ed.). 2001.

Political offices
Preceded by John Barbee	Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky 1857–1858	Succeeded by Thomas W. Riley

Mayors of Louisville Kentucky

Bucklin • Joyes • Cocke • Kaye • Beatty • Vance • Delph • Speed • Barbee • Pilcher • Riley • Crawford • Kaye • Tomppert • Lithgow • Bunce • Baxter • Jacob • Reed • Lyons • Tyler • King • Todd • Weaver • Grainger • Barth • Bingham • Grinstead • Head • Buschemeyer • Smith • Quin • Will • O'Neal • Harrison • Miller • Scholtz • Wyatt • Taylor • Farnsley • Broaddus • Hoblitzell • Cowger • Schmied • Burke • Sloane • Stansbury • Sloane • Abramson • Armstrong • Abramson • Fischer

Persondata
Name	Pilcher, William S.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1803
Place of birth
Date of death	1858
Place of death