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List of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky

Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky
Incumbent
Linda Gorton
since January 6, 2019
Formation1832
First holderCharleton Hunt
WebsiteOffice of the Mayor

This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky.[1][2] The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.[3]

The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.[4]

Pre-consolidation mayors

# Mayor Term start Term end
1 Charleton Hunt 1832 1834
2 James E. Davis 1835 1836
3 James G. McKinney 1837 1838
4 Charles H. Wickliffe 1839 1840
5 Daniel Bradford 1841 1841
6 James Logue 1842 1845
7 Thomas Ross 1846 1846
8 John Henry 1847 1847
9 George Payne Jouett 1848 1848
10 Orlando F. Payne 1849 1850
11 Edward W. Dowden 1851 1853
12 Thomas H. Pindell 1854 1854
13 William Swift 1855 1858
14 Thomas B. Monroe Jr. 1859 1859
15 Benjamin F. Graves 1860 1861
16 Caleb Thomas Worley 1862 1862
17 Joseph Wingate 1863 1865
18 David W. Standiford 1866 1866
19 Jerry T. Frazier 1867 1867
20 Joseph G. Chinn 1868 1868
21 Jerry T. Frazier 1869 1880
22 Claude M. Johnson 1880 1888
23 Charles W. Foushee 1888 1891
24 J. Hull Davidson 1892 1893
25 Henry T. Duncan 1894 1895
26 Joseph Bullock Simrall 1896 1899
27 Henry T. Duncan 1900 1904
28 Thomas A. Combs 1904 1907
28 R. B. Waddy 1907 1908
29 John Skain 1908 1911
30 J. Ernest Cassidy 1912 1916
31 James C. Rogers 1916 1919
32 William H. McCorkle 1919 1919
33 Thomas Clark Bradley 1920 1924
34 Hogan Yancey 1924 1928
35 James J. O'Brien 1928 1932
36 William Thomas Congleton 1932 1934
37 Charles R. Thompson 1934 1935
38 E. Reed Wilson 1935 1940
39 T. Ward Havely 1940 1943
40 R. Mack Oldham 1943 1948
41 Thomas G. Mooney 1948 1952
42 Fred Fugazzi 1952 1956
43 Shelby C. Kinkead 1956 1960
44 Richard J. Colbert 1960 1964
45 Charles Wylie 1968 1971
46 H. Foster Pettit 1971 1974

Post-consolidation mayors

# Mayor Term start Term end
1 H. Foster Pettit 1974 1977
2 James G. Amato 1978 1981
3 Scotty Baesler 1981 1992
4 Pam Miller 1993 2003
5 Teresa Isaac 2003 2006
6 Jim Newberry 2006 2011
7 Jim Gray 2011 2019
8 Linda Gorton 2019

References

  1. ^ Peter 1979, p. 271.
  2. ^ Wright 1982, p. 232.
  3. ^ Gillen 2010.
  4. ^ Kapos, Shia (December 8, 2021). "It's Kentucky Straight in Lexington City Hall". Politico. Archived from the original on September 12, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024. Mayor Linda Gorton is a registered Republican.

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