Mayors - City of Houston, Texas

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Mayors - City of Houston, Texas

1. 1837-1837 James Sanders Holman (1804-1867)

2. 1838-1839 Francis W. Moore, Jr. (1808-1864)

3. 1839-1839 George W. Lively

4. 1840-1840 Col. Charles Bigelow (1805-1885)

5. 1841-1842 John Day Andrews (1795-1882)

6. 1843-1843 Francis W. Moore, Jr. (1808-1864)

7. 1844-1844 Horace Baldwin (1801-1850)

8. 1845-1845 William W. Swain

9. 1846-1846 James Bailey (1801-1880)

10. 1847-1848 Judge Benjamin Pendleton Buckner (1801-1876)

11. 1849-1852 Francis W. Moore, Jr. (1808-1864)

12. 1853-1854 Col. Nathan Fuller

13. 1855-1856 James H. Stevens (1818-1856)

14. 1856-1857 Cornelius Ennis (1813-1899)

15. 1858-1858 Judge Alexander D. McGowan (1817-1893)

16. 1859-1859 William Harrison King

17. 1860-1860 Thomas W. Whitmarsh

18. 1861-1861 William J. Hutchins (1813-1884)

19. 1862-1862 Thomas William House, Sr. (1814-1880)

20. 1863-1865 William Anders ( -1873)

21. 1866-1866 Horace Dickinson Taylor (1821-1890)

22. 1867-1867 Judge Alexander D. McGowan (1817-1893)

23. 1868-1869 Joseph Robert Morris (1828-1876)

24. 1870-1873 Thomas Howe Scanlan (1832-1906)

25. 1874-1875 James Theodore Dudley Wilson (1820-1902)

26. 1875-1876 Irvin Capers Lord (1827-1914)

27. 1877-1878 James Theodore Dudley Wilson (1820-1902)

28. 1879-1879 Andrew Jackson Burke (1813-1903)

29. 1880-1886 William Robinson Baker (1820-1890)

30. 1886-1890 Daniel C. Smith (1836- )

31. 1890-1892 Capt. Henry B. Scherffius (1838-1894)

32. 1892-1896 John Thomas Browne (1845-1941)

33. 1896-1898 Horace Baldwin Rice (1861- )

34. 1898-1901 Judge Samuel H. Brashear (1866-1941)

Pictures of Houston Mayors #1 thru #34
Pictures of Houston Mayors #35 thru #60

35. 1901-1901 John Dunnock Woolford, Sr. (1855-1918)

36. 1902-1904 Orren Thaddeus Holt (1849-1913)

37. 1904-1905 Andrew L. Jackson (1863- )

38. 1905-1913 Horace Baldwin Rice (1861- )

39. 1913-1917 Ben Campbell (1858-1942)

40. 1917-1917 Joseph Jay Pastoriza (1854-1917)

41. 1917-1918 Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Jr. (1879-1973)

42. 1918-1921 Almeron Earl Amerman, Sr. (1878-1958)

43. 1921-1929 Oscar FitzAllen Holcombe (1888-1968)

44. 1929-1933 Judge Walter Embree Monteith (1877-1953)

45. 1933-1937 Oscar FitzAllen Holcombe (1888-1968)

46. 1937-1939 Richard Henry Fonville (1882-1954)

47. 1939-1941 Oscar FitzAllen Holcombe (1888-1968)

48. 1941-1943 Cornelius A. "Neal" Pickett (1902-1990)

49. 1943-1947 Otis Massey (1891-1968)

50. 1947-1952 Oscar FitzAllen Holcombe (1888-1968)

51. 1952-1955 Judge Roy Mark Hofheinz (1912-1982)

52. 1956-1957 Oscar FitzAllen Holcombe (1888-1968)

53. 1957-1963 Lewis Wesley Cutrer (1904-1981)

54. 1964-1973 Louie William Welch (1918-2008)

55. 1974-1977 [James] Fred Hofheinz (1938 - liv.)

56. 1978-1981 James "Jim" Joseph McConn (1928-1997)

57. 1982-1991 Kathryn Jeannine (Niederhofer) Whitmire (1946 – liv.)

58. 1992-1997 Robert Clayton "Bob" Lanier (1925- liv.)

59. 1998-2003 Lee Patrick Brown (1937 – liv.)

60. 2004-2009 William Howard “Bill” White (1954- liv.)

61. 2010- Annise Parker

Ex-Mayors shaped today's Houston: Louie Welch, Fred Hofheinz, Kathy Whitmire and Bob Lanier led Houston through four decades. All but Whitmire remain plugged into city politics. [Winter 2003]

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