List of mayors of Sacramento, California
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Mayor of Sacramento | |
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since December 13, 2016 | |
Type | Mayor |
Formation | 1849 |
First holder | William Stout |
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]
# | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Notes and references |
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1 | William Stout | 1849 | Spent three weeks in office[1] | |
2 | Albert Maver Winn | 1849 | ||
3 | Hardin Bigelow | April 1, 1850 | November 1850 | The first elected mayor of Sacramento |
4 | James Richmond Hardenberg | November 1850 | 1851 | |
5 | C. I. Hutchinson | 1852 | ||
6 | James Richmond Hardenberg | 1853 | ||
7 | R. P. Johnson | 1854 | ||
8 | James Lawrence English | 1855 | Later served as the California State Treasurer | |
9 | Benjamin Barnard Redding | 1856 | 1857 | Born in Canada |
10 | Joseph Palmer Dyer | 1857 | ||
11 | Henry Lambard Nichols | 1858 | Later served as Secretary of State of California | |
12 | William Shattuck | 1859 | 1862 | |
13 | Charles Heman | 1863 | 1871 | |
14 | Christopher Green | 1872 | 1877 | |
15 | Jabez Turner | 1878 | 1880 | Elected on what was known as the State Workingmen's ticket |
16 | John Q. Brown | 1881 | 1887 | Father of mayor John Q. Brown (1918-1920) |
17 | Eugene J. Gregory | 1887 | 1888 | |
18 | William D. Comstock | 1889 | 1892 | |
19 | Bernard U. Steinman | 1893 | 1895 | First Jewish mayor of Sacramento[2] |
20 | Cyrus H. Hubbard | 1896 | 1897 | |
21 | William Land | 1898 | 1899 | |
22 | George H. Clark | 1900 | 1903 | |
23 | William J. Hassett | 1904 | 1905 | |
24 | Marshall R. Beard | 1906 | 1907 | |
25 | Clinton L. White | 1908 | 1909 | |
26 | Marshall R. Beard | 1910 | 1912 | |
27 | Michael J. Burke | 1912 | 1915 | |
28 | Gustavaus C. Simmons | 1915 | 1916 | |
29 | Daniel W. Carmichael | 1916 | 1918 | |
30 | John Q. Brown | 1918 | 1920 | Son of former mayor John Q. Brown (1881-1887) |
31 | Charles A. Bliss | 1920 | 1921 | |
32 | Albert Elkus | 1921 | 1925 | First mayor to be born within city boundaries |
33 | Alexander E. Goddard | 1926 | 1927 | |
34 | Ralph E. Conley | 1928 | 1928 | Resigned effective October 15, 1928 |
35 | Martin I. Welsh | 1928 | 1930 | Ran for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1930 |
36 | C. H. S. Bidwell | 1930 | 1933 | |
37 | Thomas P. Scollan | 1934 | 1935 | |
38 | Arthur D. Ferguson | 1936 | 1937 | |
39 | Thomas B. Monk | 1938 | 1945 | |
40 | George L. Klumpp | 1946 | 1947 | |
41 | Belle Cooledge | 1948 | 1949 | First female mayor |
42 | Bert E. Geisreiter[3] | 1950 | 1951 | |
43 | Leslie E. Wood | 1952 | 1953 | |
44 | William A. Hicks | 1954 | Resigned from office | |
45 | H. H. Hendren | 1954 | 1955 | |
46 | Clarence L. Azevedo | 1956 | 1959 | |
47 | James B. McKenney | 1960 | 1965 | |
48 | Walter Christensen | 1966 | 1967 | |
49 | Richard H. Marriott | 1968 | 1975 | |
50 | Phil Isenberg | 1975 | 1982 | Later served in the California State Assembly |
51 | R. Burnett Miller | 1983 | ||
52 | Anne Rudin | 1983 | January 2, 1993 | First elected female mayor in Sacramento |
53 | Joe Serna, Jr. | January 2, 1993 | November 7, 1999 | First Hispanic-American to be elected as mayor (died in office) |
Vacant | November 7, 1999 | December 14, 1999 | ||
Jimmie R. Yee (interim) | December 14, 1999 | November 27, 2000 | First Asian-American mayor | |
54 | Heather Fargo | November 27, 2000 | December 2, 2008 | Second elected female mayor in Sacramento |
55 | Kevin Johnson | December 2, 2008 | December 13, 2016 | First African-American mayor and former NBA player |
56 | Darrell Steinberg | December 13, 2016 | Incumbent |
See also : Lists of incumbents
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sacto Facto". Center for Sacramento History. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ "Bernard Ulmer Steinman, Jewish Pioneer Businessman, Civil Servant and Mayor of Sacramento, California". Jmaw.org. Jewish Museum of the American West. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "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. ...