List of mayors of Macon, Georgia

This is a list of mayors and intendents of the city of Macon, Georgia since its incorporation in 1823.

List

Intendents

• David S. Booth (1824)
• James H. Rogers (1825)
• Edward Dorr Tracy (1826)
• Washington Poe (1827)
• Robert Birdsong (1828)
• Joseph Washburn (1829)
• W. J. Dannelly (1830)
• Isaac R. Rowland (1831)
• Levi Eckley (1832)

Mayors

• Isaac G. Seymour (1833-1834) elected by Board of Adermen
• Robert Augustus Beall (1835) 1st popularly elected
• Isaac G. Seymour (1836-1839)
• Washington Poe (1840-1841)
• Frederick Sims (1842)
• John J. Gresham (1843)
• James A. Nisbet (1844-1845)
• Isaac Holmes (1846)
• John J. Gresham (1847)
• George M. Logan (1848-1850)
• James H. R. Washington (1851)
• E. L. Strohecker (1852-1854)
• Benjamin Franklin Ross (1855-1856)
• A. B. Adams (1857)
• Ovid G. Sparks (1858-1860) resigned September 18, 1860
• Methvin S. Thompson (1860-1862) elected September 25, 1860
• Ovid G. Sparks (1863)
• Stephen Collins (1864-1866)
• George S. Obear (1867-1870)
• William A. Huff (1871-1879)
• Felix Corput (1880-1883)
• Sylvester B. Price (1884-1894)
• Henry Horne (1895-1896)
• Sylvester B. Price (1897)
• Bridges Smith (1898-1907)
• Alexander Lawton Miller (1908-1909)
• John T. Moore (mayor) (1910-1913)
• Bridges Smith (1914-1917)
• Glover Glendenning Toole (1918-1921)
• Luther Williams (1922-1925)
• Wallace Miller (1926-1927)
• Luther Williams (1928-1929)
• Glover Glendenning Toole (1930-1933)
• Herbert Ivan Smart (1934-1937)
• Charles L. Bowden (1938-1947)
• Lewis Burgess Wilson (1948-1953)
• Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1954-1959)
• Edgar H. Wilson (1960-1963)
• Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1964-1967)
• Ronnie Thompson (1968-1975)
• Buckner F. Melton (1976-1979)
• George Israel (1980-1987) 1st elected Republican Mayor
• Lee Robinson (1988-1991)
• Tommy Olmstead (1992-1994)
• David Carter (1995)
• Jim Marshall (1996-2000)
• C. Jack Ellis (2000-2007) 1st African American
• Robert Reichert

Links

• Macon Mayor's office