Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida
| Mayor of Tallahassee | |
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 Seal of City of Tallahassee | |
| Term length | 4 years |
| Inaugural holder | Charles Haire |
| Formation | 1826 |
| Website | [2] |
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The Mayor of Tallahassee is head of the executive branch of the government of Tallahassee, Florida.
List
Antebellum period
- 1826 Charles Haire (Florida politician)[1] was elected Intendant
- 1827 David Ochiltree, moved to Florida from Fayetteville, North Carolina.[2] He also served as a justice of the peace.[3] Ochiltree died in 1834 at his residence on Rocky Comfort Creek (Florida). He was a colonel and was a member elect of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida for Gadsden County when he died. [4]
- 1828-1829 John Y. Gary
- 1830 Leslie A. Thompson
- 1832-1833 Leslie A. Thompson
- 1834 Robert J. Hackley, a pioneer settler sent by his father to an area by Tampa Bay. He was dispossessed of his land for the establishment of Fort Brooke.[5] A case on behalf of his heirs went to the Supreme Court.
- 1837 William P. Gorman
- 1839 R. F. Ker
- 1840 Leslie A. Thompson
- 1841–1844 Francis W. Eppes
- 1845 James A. Berthelot, he also served in the General Assembly[6] and campaigned for another office on a no tax anti bond platform advertised on a poster.[7] He was a mason and part of the Grand Lodge of Florida
- 1846 Simon Towle, was also a state comptroller. Owned the Towle House (Tallahassee, Florida)[8]
- 1847 James Kirksey
- 1848 F. H. Flagg
- 1850-1851 D. P. Hogue (also David P. Hogue or David Porter Hogue, a lawyer[9] who served as Attorney General in Florida.[10]
- 1852 David S. Walker
- 1854-1855 Thomas Hayward (Florida politician)
- 1856-1857 Francis W. Eppes
- 1858-1860 D. P. Hogue
Civil War era and Reconstruction
- 1861-1865 P. T. Pearce, he was appointed a trustee of the West Florida Seminary
- 1866 Francis W. Eppes, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, returned to office
- 1867-1868 D. P. Hogue
- 1869-1870 Thaddeus Preston Tatum, was a druggist and served in the Battle of Natural Bridge. lived September 27 1835 - July 4 1873 and is buried in the Old City Cemetery.[11]
- 1871 Charles Edgar Dyke, a Conservative newspaper editor[12] of the Floridian & Journal
- 1872-1874 C. H. Edwards
- 1875 David S. Walker, Jr.
- 1876 Samuel Walker
Post-Reconstruction
- 1877 Jesse Bernard (also known as J. T. Bernard and Jesse Talbot Bernard), first Democratic mayor after Reconstruction, which ended the year he was elected.
- 1878-1879 David S. Walker, Jr.
- 1880 Henry Bernreuter, born in Columbus, Georgia to German immigrants, he moved as a child with his family to Florida. He was a Confederate veteran who later served as sheriff and police chief.[13][14]
- 1882 John W. Nash
- 1884-1885 Charles C. Pearce
- 1886 George W. Walker (Tallahassee, FL mayor)
- 1887 A. J. Fish
- 1888-1889 R. B. Gorman, served in the Confederate Army and was postmaster in Tallahassee.[15][16] As mayor, he signed on to a letter from the merchants of Tallahassee to the U.S. Army's Chief of Engineers calling for the St. Marks River to be made navigable to promote trade.[17] In 1889 he reported on negotiations with a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company for a water works system.[18]
- 1890-1894 Richard B. Carpenter, a shopkeeper. Later went into bankruptcy and had a legal case for exemption given individuals declaring bankruptcy, even though the firm was established as a separate entity. Decided on appeal in his favor.[19]
- 1895-1896 Jesse Talbot Bernard, a teacher and judge who travelled around Florida to hear cases. Served in the Confederate Army. He kept a diary.[20]
- 1897 R. A. Shine
- 1898-1902 R. B. Gorman, return to office of mayor
20th century to WWII
- 1903-1904 William L. Moor[21]
- 1905 John Ward Henderson[22], he also served as a legislator.[23]
- 1906 F. C. Gilmore
- 1907 W. M. McIntosh, Jr., he also served as Chief Clerk of the state's Comptroller Office.[24]
- 1908 F. C. Gilmore
- 1909 Francis B. Winthrop, the Florida State Archives have a photo of the family home[25] as well as a photo of Winthrop, age 3.[26] Florida State University has a photo of him in what appears to be a military uniform ca. 1918[27] as well as some of his business documents in a collection of his family's papers.[28] His family owned the Barrow Hill Plantation and a house at 610 North Magnolia, which he lived in with his wife for years.
- 1910-1917 D. M. Lowry
- 1918 J. R. McDaniel
- 1919-1921 Guyte P. McCord, played on the 1904 Florida State College football team and scored a touchdown in the state championship game against Stetson.
- 1922-1923 A. P. McCaskill
- 1924-1925 B. A. Meginniss
- 1926 W. Theo Proctor
- 1927 B.A. Meginniss
- 1928-1929 W. Theo Proctor
- 1930 G. E. Lewis
- 1931 Frank D. Moor
- 1932-1933 W. L. Marshall
- 1934 J. L. Fain
- 1935 Leonard A. Wesson
- 1936 H. J. Yaeger [29] (H. Jack Yaeger)
- 1937 L. A. Wesson (Leonard A. Wesson, lived at 503 McDaniel)
- 1938 J. R. Jinks
- 1939 S. A. Wahnish
- 1940 F. C. Moor
- 1941 Charles S. Ausley
- 1942 Jack W. Simmons
- 1943 A. R. Richardson
- 1944 Charles S. Ausley
- 1945 Ralph E. Proctor
Post-World War II
- 1946 Fred S. Winterle, he and his son were involved in the oil distribution business.[30]
- 1947 George I. Martin
- 1948 Fred N. Lowry
- 1949-1950 Robert C. Parker disambig needed
- 1951 William H. Cates
- 1952 B. A. Ragsdale
- 1953 William T. Mayo
- 1954 H. G. Esterwood
- 1954 H. C. Summitt
- 1955-1956 J. T. Williams disambig needed
- 1956 Fred S. Winterle, a return to office
- 1956-1957 John Y. Humphress
- 1957 J. W. Cordell
- 1958 Davis H. Atkinson
- 1960 George S. Taft disambig needed
- 1961 J. W. Cordell
- 1962 Davis H. Atkinson
- 1963 S. E. Teague, Jr. (Samuel)
- 1965 George S. Taft
- 1966 William Haywood Cates, Sr., longest-serving city commissioner in history of Tallahassee. Eventually lost to the first African American elected as commissioner. His son drowned in a hunting accident. Was a religion professor at Florida State University and helped found religious organizations in Tallahassee.[31]
- 1967 John A. Rudd, Sr.
- 1968 Gene Berkowitz [32] He also served as a City Commissioner in Tallahassee[33] His wife was a schoolteacher.[34] As a commissioner he voted to reopen the city's public schools in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.[32]
- 1969 Spurgeon Camp
- 1970 Lee A. Everhart, founder and president of building company Everhart Construction Company[35]
- 1971 Gene Berkowitz, return to office
- 1972 James R. Ford
- 1973 Joan Heggen
- 1974-1975 John R. Jones
- 1976 James R. Ford
- 1977-1978 Neal D. Sapp, was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and graduated from Florida State University with a business. He was a software developer and businessman. He died March 26, 2004.
- 1979 Sheldon A. Hilaman, also served as a City Commissioner. Went by Shad. Hillaman Golf Course is named for him.[36]
- 1980-1981 Hurley W. Rudd, also served as a city commissioner and multiple terms in the Florida legislature[37]
- 1982 James R. Ford[38]
- 1983 Carol Bellamy disambig needed
- 1984 Kent Spriggs, a Civil Rights lawyer who also edited a book about Civil Rights leaders in the deep south. Appeared on C-Span while mayor discussing his duties.[39]
- 1985 Hurley W. Rudd
- 1986 Jack McLean
- 1987–1988 Betty Harley
- 1988–1990 Dorothy Inman
- 1990 Steve Meisberg
- 1991–1992 Debbie Lightsey
- 1993–1994 Dorothy Inman-Crews
- 1994-1995 Penny Herman
- 1995–1996 Scott Maddox
- 1996–1997 Ron Weaver (Florida politician)
- 1997-2003 Scott Maddox[40]
- 2003-2014 John Marks, longest-serving mayor in the city's history
- 2014-2018 Andrew Gillum, ran for governor in 2018 but lost narrowly to Ron DeSantis
- 2018-present John E. Dailey
See also
References
- ^ "Tallahassee, Leon County". Viva Florida. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ^ "d.o. elected intendant in Tallahassee, fla. 1827". Newspapers.com.
- ^ Burgess, Louis Alexander (1 January 1973). Virginia soldiers of 1776: compiled from documents on file in the Virginia Land Office; together with material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other reliable sources. Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 9780806305295 – via Google Books.
- ^ Floridian and Advocate (Tallahassee, Florida), Dec. 27, 1834, p. 3: Obituary
- ^ Burnett, Gene M. (1 June 1996). Florida's Past: People and Events That Shaped the State. Pineapple Press Inc. ISBN 9781561641178 – via Google Books.
- ^ "A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the ... General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its ... Session". 7 December 2018. p. 3.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Campaign Poster for James A. Berthelot, James M. Gilchrist, and James H. Gibson". Florida Memory.
- ^ "Towle House - Florida Historical Markers". Waymarking.com.
- ^ Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida" – via Google Books.
- ^ Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Florida Reports" – via Google Books.
- ^ "Portrait of Thaddeus Preston Tatum - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
- ^ "Notes on Reconstruction in Tallahassee and Leon County, 1866-1876". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly. 5 (3): 153–158. 1927. JSTOR 30150750.
- ^ "Henry Bernreuter, Memorial article by friend". The Weekly True Democrat.
- ^ "BERNREUTER, Henry". Florida Memory.
- ^ "R B Gorman obit 17 April 1918 - Newspapers.com". Tallahassee Democrat.
- ^ House, Florida Legislature (8 December 1881). "Journal ..." pp. 2–27.
- ^ "Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army". U.S. Government Printing Office. 8 December 1889 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer". McGraw Publishing Company. 8 December 1889.
- ^ "Mayor r b carpenter bankrupt - Newspapers.com". Tampa Bay Times.
- ^ Phillips, Rebecca; Bernard, Jesse Talbot (1939). "A Diary of Jesse Talbot Bernard". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 18 (2): 115–126. JSTOR 30145327.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Tallahassee Junior Museum officials". Florida Memory. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ History of Florida, Past and Present: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1923.
- ^ "Search Results". Florida Memory.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Portrait of William M. McIntosh Jr. standing by the Capitol - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Winthrop family home at 610 N. Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Francis B. Winthrop at age three". Florida Memory.
- ^ "Francis B. Winthrop - fsu.digital.flvc.org". fsu.digital.flvc.org.
- ^ "Winthrop Family Papers, 1592-1970 - FSU Special Collections & Archives". fsuarchon.fcla.edu.
- ^ Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.). "Mayors and Postmasters of Tallahassee, Florida". Political Graveyard. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Fred S. Winterle and son's Gulf oil distribution trucks". Florida Memory.
- ^ "Cates Ave. named for former city commissioner". Tallahassee Democrat.
- ^ a b "Letter: Was it Wade or Berkowitz who reopened city pools?". Tallahassee Democrat.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "New City Commissioner Gene Berkowitz with his wife in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Gene Berkowitz reading to class in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
- ^ Butcher, Lee (10 December 1976). Florida's power structure: who's part of it and why. Trend Pub. ISBN 9780882510699 – via Google Books.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Men on the course at the Winewood Golf Club in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
- ^ 2006 obituary in the Tallahassee Democrat
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Kent Spriggs - C-SPAN.org". C-span.org.
- ^ "City Officials". City of Tallahassee. Archived from the original on June 5, 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.