List of mayors of Columbus, Ohio

This is a list of mayors of Columbus, Ohio from 1816 to the present.

Terms	Name	Life Dates	Party
1816–1817	Jarvis W. Pike	1795–1854
1818–1819	John Kerr	1778–1823
1820–1822	Eli C. King
1823	John Laughrey	1784-?
1824–1826	William T. Martin	1788–1866
1827	James Robinson
1827–1833	William Long	1781–1851
1833	Philo H. Olmsted	1793–1870
1834	John Brooks	1785–1869
1835	John Bailhache	1787–1857	Whig
1836–1837	Warren Jenkins		Whig
1838–1839	Philo H. Olmsted (2nd)	1793–1870	Whig
1840	John G. Miller	1795–1871	Whig
1841	Thomas Wood	1782–1861
1842	Abram Irvin McDowell	1793–1844
1843	Smithson E. Wright	1807–1881	Whig
1845	Alexander Patton	1791–1858
1846	Augustus Stoner Decker	1813–1872	Whig
1847–1849	Alexander Patton (2nd)	1791–1858
1850–1861	Lorenzo English	1819–1888	Whig
1861–1864	Wray Thomas	1810-?	Peace Democrat
1865–1868	James G. Bull	1838-?	Democratic
1869–1870	George W. Meeker	1833–1890	Democratic
1871–1874	James G. Bull (2nd)	1838-?
1875–1878	John H. Heitmann	1841–1894
1879–1880	Gilbert G. Collins	1830–1885
1881–1882	George Silas Peters	1846–1928	Democratic
1883–1886	Charles C. Walcutt	1838–1898	Republican
1887–1890	Philip H. Bruck	1845–1920	Democratic
1893–1894	George J. Karb	1858–1937
1895–1896	Cotton Hayden Allen	1834–1900	Democratic
1897–1898	Samuel Luccock Black	1859–1929	Democratic
1899–1900	Samuel Jackson Swartz	1854–1905	Republican
1901–1902	John Nelson Hinkle	1854–1905	Democratic
1903–1905	Robert H. Jeffrey	1873–1961	Republican
1906–1907	De Witt C. Badger	1858–1926	Democratic
1908–1909	Charles Anson Bond	1873–1943	Republican
1910–1911	George Sidney Marshall	1869–1956	Republican
1912–1919	George J. Karb (2nd)	1858–1937
1920–1931	James John Thomas	1868–1947	Republican
1932–1935	Henry William Worley	1877–1938	Democratic
1936–1939	Myron B. Gessaman	1894–1975	Republican
1940–1943	Floyd F. Green	1900–1952	Republican
1944–1952	James A. Rhodes	1909–2001	Republican
1953	Robert Theodore Oestreicher	1894–1955	Republican
1954–1960	Maynard Edward "Jack" Sensenbrenner	1902–1991	Democratic
January 1, 1960 – January 1, 1964	Wallace Ralston Westlake	1907–1978	Republican
January 1, 1964 – January 1, 1972	Maynard Edward "Jack" Sensenbrenner (2nd)	1902–1991	Democratic
January 1, 1972 – January 1, 1984	Tom Moody	1930–2008	Republican
January 1, 1984 – January 1, 1992	Dana G. "Buck" Rinehart	born 1946	Republican
January 1, 1992 – January 1, 2000	Gregory S. Lashutka		Republican
January 1, 2000 – present	Michael B. Coleman		Democratic

References

• Egger, Charles, ed. (1975). Columbus Mayors. Columbus: Columbus Citizen-Journal. http://www.genealogybug.net/franklin_county/colmayors/columbus_mayors_1.pdf.  -- a series of articles published in the Columbus Citizen-Journal in 1975 on the 44 mayors to that time, later printed as a book.