List of mayors of Sacramento, California
This is a list of mayors of Sacramento, California. The Sacramento City Council met for the first time on August 1, 1849 and the citizens approved the city charter on October 13, 1849. The City Charter was recognized by the State of California on February 27, 1850 and Sacramento was incorporated on March 18, 1850.[1]
| Year | Mayor | Notes and references |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-present | Darrell Steinberg | |
| 2008–2016 | Kevin Johnson | First African-American mayor to serve in office. |
| 2000–2008 | Heather Fargo | |
| 1999–2000 | Jimmie R. Yee | First Asian-American to serve as mayor. (Interim mayor). |
| 1993–1999 | Joe Serna, Jr. | First Hispanic-American to be elected as mayor. (Died in office). |
| 1983–1992 | Anne Rudin | First elected female mayor in Sacramento. |
| 1982–1983 | R. Burnett Miller | |
| 1975–1982 | Phil Isenberg | |
| 1968–1975 | Richard H. Marriott | |
| 1966–1967 | Walter Christensen | |
| 1960–1965 | James B. McKinney | |
| 1956–1959 | Clarence L. Azevedo | |
| 1954–1955 | H. H. Hendren | |
| 1954 | W. A. Hicks | Resigned from office. |
| 1952–1953 | Leslie E. Wood | |
| 1950–1951 | Bert E. Geisreiter[2] | |
| 1948–1949 | Belle Cooledge | First female mayor to serve in office. |
| 1946–1947 | George L. Klumpp | |
| 1938–1945 | Tom B. Monk | |
| 1936–1937 | Arthur D. Ferguson | |
| 1934–1935 | Thomas P. Scollan | |
| 1930–1933 | C. H. S. Bidwell | |
| 1928–1929 | R. E. Conley | |
| 1926–1927 | A. E. Goddard | |
| 1921–1925 | Albert Elkus | First mayor to be born within city boundaries |
| 1920–1921 | Charles A. Bliss | |
| 1919–1920 | John Q. Brown | |
| 1917–1919 | D. W. Carmichael | |
| 1915–1917 | G. C. Simmons | |
| 1912–1915 | M. J. Burke | |
| 1910–1912 | M. R. Beard | |
| 1908–1909 | Clinton F. White | |
| 1906–1907 | M. R. Beard | |
| 1904–1905 | W. J. Hassett | |
| 1900–1903 | George H. Clark | |
| 1898–1899 | William Land | |
| 1896–1897 | C. H. Hubbard | |
| 1892–1896 | Bernard Ulmer Steinman | First Jewish person elected mayor of Sacramento [3] |
| 1889–1892 | W. D. Comstock | |
| 1887–1888 | Eugene J. Gregory | |
| 1881–1886 | John Q. Brown | |
| 1878–1880 | Jabez Turner | |
| 1872–1877 | Christopher Green | |
| 1863–1871 | Charles Heman Swift | |
| 1859–1863 | William Shattuck | |
| 1858 | Henry Lambard Nichols | |
| 1857 | Joseph Palmer Dyer | |
| 1856 | Benjamin Barnard Redding | |
| 1855 | James Lawrence English | |
| 1854 | R. P. Johnson | |
| 1853 | James Richmond Hardenberg | |
| 1852 | C. I. Hutchinson | |
| 1851 | James Richmond Hardenberg (1814-?) | |
| 1850 | Horace Smith | |
| 1850 | Hardin Bigelow | |
| 1849 | Albert Maver Winn | |
| 1849 | William S. Hamilton | First mayor of Sacramento, California. He was mayor for three weeks. |
See also : Lists of incumbents
See also
References
- ^ "Center for Sacramento History". Cityofsacramento.org. 1972-09-04. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ "Nurseryman, Former Mayor Bert Geisreiter, 83, Dies". Sacramento Bee. June 20, 1987. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
Bert E. Geisreiter, a former Sacramento mayor who first ran for election in 1947 as a last-minute candidate and ended up serving nine years on the City Council, died at home Friday following a long illness. He was 83. ...
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