Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina

Mayor of the City of Columbia
Incumbent Stephen K. Benjamin since July 2010
Style	His Honor
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Edward J. Arthur
Formation	19th century

The mayor of Columbia, South Carolina is elected at large for a four-year term. The duties of the mayor is to create policy and enact laws, rules and regulations for the city of Columbia. Stephen K. Benjamin, who assumed office on July 2010 after a run-off election, is the current mayor of Columbia, and the first to be elected of African descent.

On November 5, 2013, Benjamin received 64% of the total vote, allowing him to remain mayor for four more years.

Mayors of Columbia

Term	Mayor
1855–1857	Edward J. Arthur
1857–1859	James D. Tradewell
1859–1861	Allen J. Green
1861–1863	John H. Boatwright
1863–1865	Thomas J. Goodwyn
May 1865 – April 1866	James C. Gibbes
April 1866 – July 1868	Theodore Stark
July–August 1868	Francis L. Guenther
August–November 1868	Cyrus H. Baldwin
1868–1870	John McKenzie
1870–1878	John Alexander
1878–1880	William B. Stanley
1880–1882	Richard O'Neale Jr.
1882–1890	John T. Rhett
1890–1892	Fitz William McMaster
1892–1894	Walter C. Fisher
1894–1898	William M. Sloan
1898–1900	Thomas J. Lipscomb
1900–1904	Fort Sumter Earle
1904–1908	Thomas H. Gibbes
1908–1910	William S. Reamer
1910–1914	Wade Hampton Gibbes
1914–1918	Lewie A. Griffith
1918–1922	R. Johnson Blalock
1922–1926	William A. Coleman
1926–1941	Lawrence B. Owens
1941–1946	Fred D. Marshall
1946–1950	Frank C. Owens
1950–1954	J. Macfie Anderson
1954–1958	J. Clarence Dreher
1958–1970	Lester L. Bates
1970–1978	John T. Campbell
1978–1986	Kirkman Finlay, Jr.
1986–1990	T. Patton Adams
1990–2010	Bob Coble
2010–present	Stephen K. Benjamin

See also

• Timeline of Columbia, South Carolina

References

• Information obtained from Columbia & Richland County: A South Carolina Community 1740–1990 by John Hammond Moore (University of South Carolina Press, 1993). ISBN 0-87249-827-1