List of mayors of Madison, Wisconsin

This is a list of mayors of Madison, Wisconsin.

Village presidents

Mayor	Tenure
A.L. Collins	1847-1849
William N. Seymour	1850
Simeon Mills	1851
Chauncey Abbott	1852
Horace A. Tenney	1853
Simeon Mills	1854
Peter Van Bergen	1855

Mayors

Mayor	Tenure
Jairus C. Fairchild	1856
Augustus A. Bird	1857
George Baldwin Smith	1858-1860
Levi Baker Vilas	1861
William T. Leitch	1860-1864
Elisha W. Keyes	1865-1866
Alden Sprague Sanborn	1867
David Atwood	1868
Andrew Proudfit	1869-1870
James Barton Bowen	1871
James L. Hill	1872
Jared Comstock Gregory	1873
Silas U. Pinney	1874-1875
John N. Jones	1876
Harlow S. Orton	1877
George Baldwin Smith	1878
John R. Baltzell	1879
Philip L. Spooner, Jr.	1880
James Conklin	1881-1883
Breese J. Stevens	1884
Hiram N. Moulton	1885
Elisha W. Keyes	1886
James Conklin	1887
Moses Ransom Doyon	1888-1889
Robert McKee Bashford	1890
William H. Rogers	1891-1892
John H. Corscot	1893-1894
Jabe B. Alford	1895
Albert A. Dye	1896
Mathias J. Hoven	1897
Charles Elbert Whelan	1898
Mathias J. Hoven	1899-1900
Storm Bull	1901
John W. Groves	1902-1903
William Dexter Curtis	1904-1905
Joseph C. Schubert	1906-1911
John B. Heim	1912-1913
Adolph H. Kayser	1914-1915
George C. Sayle	1916-1919
Isaac Milo Kittleson	1920-1925
Albert G. Schmedeman	1926-1932
James R. Law, Jr.	1932-1943
Fred Halsey Kraege	1943-1947
Leonard G. Howell	1947-1950
George J. Forster	1950-1955
Alfred W. Bareis	1955-1956
Ivan A. Nestingen	1956-1961
Harold E. Hanson	1961 Interim
Henry Edward Reynolds	1961-1965
Otto Festge	1965-1969
William Dyke	1969-1973
Paul Soglin	1973-1979
Joel Skornicka	1979-1983
F. Joseph Sensenbrenner, Jr.	1983-1989
Paul Soglin	1989-1997
Susan J. M. Bauman	1997-2003
Dave Cieslewicz	2003-2011
Paul Soglin	2011-present