List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana
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This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Mayor | From | To | Party | Notes |
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Angus McNeill | 1836 | 1839 | None | President of Shreve Town Co. |
John Octavius Sewall | 1839 | 1840 | Whig | First Elected Mayor |
William Walton George, M.D. | 1840 | 1840 | Dem. | |
Samuel W. Briggs | 1841 | 1841 | None | |
William Walton George, M.D. | 1842 | 1843 | Dem. | |
John N. Howell | 1844 | 1844 | Dem. | |
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1845 | 1845 | Dem. | |
Lawrence Pike Crain | 1846 | 1847 | Dem. | |
Robert Nathaniel Wood | 1847 | 1847 | Whig/Know | Died in Mexico |
John Morgan Landrum | 1848 | 1848 | Dem. | Elected to Congress |
Rev. John Bryce | 1849 | 1849 | Dem. | |
Robert W. Cooke | 1850 | 1850 | Dem. | |
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1851 | 1853 | Dem. | |
John Wallace Jones | 1854 | 1857 | Dem. | |
Jonas Robeson | 1858 | 1858 | Dem. | |
John W. Pennall | 1859 | 1859 | Dem. | Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 |
Jonas Robeson | 1860 | 1861 | Dem. | |
Joseph Clinton Beall | 1862 | 1863 | Dem. | |
John Gooch, Samuel Wells | 1864 | 1865 | Dem. | Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells. |
Alexander Boarman | 1866 | 1867 | Rep. | Appointed by Union. |
Lewis S. Markham | 1867 | 1867 | Dem. | Served only one month. |
Martin Tally | 1867 | 1868 | Rep. | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. |
Jerome B. Gilmore | 1869 | 1871 | Rep. | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. |
William Rabun Shivers | 1871 | 1871 | Dem. | Was killed before he was able to serve term. |
Moses Hodge Crowell | 1871 | 1872 | Rep. | Appointed by the Union. |
Joseph Taylor, M.D. | 1872 | 1873 | Dem. | Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist) |
Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh | 1872 | 1873 | Rep. | Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. |
Samuel J. Ward | 1874 | 1874 | Dem. | Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales. |
W. Nick Murphy | 1875 | 1878 | Rep./Dem. | Switched from Republican to Democrat. |
Andrew Currie | 1878 | 1889 | Dem. | Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland. |
Edward B. Herndon | 1890 | 1890 | Dem. | Elected to fill unfinished term. |
Richard Tucker Vinson | 1891 | 1895 | Dem. | |
Reuben Neil McKellar | 1896 | 1900 | Dem. | Born in Kickapoo, Texas. |
Benjamin Holzman | 1900 | 1902 | Dem. | Born in Germany. |
Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. | 1902 | 1906 | Dem. | Born in New Orleans. |
Ernest Ralph Berstein | 1906 | 1908 | Dem. | |
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1908 | 1910 | Dem. | |
John H. Eastman | 1910 | 1914 | Dem. | First mayor under city commission government |
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1914 | 1916 | Dem. | |
Robert Hodges Ward | 1916 | 1918 | Dem. | Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward. |
John McWilliams Ford | 1918 | 1922 | Dem. | |
Lee Emmett Thomas | 1922 | 1930 | Dem. | Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916 |
J. G. Palmer | 1930 | 1932 | Dem. | Louisiana State Judge. |
John McWilliams Ford | 1932 | 1932 | Dem. | |
George W. Hardy, Jr. | 1932 | 1934 | Dem. | Louisiana State Judge. |
Samuel S. Caldwell | 1934 | 1946 | Dem. | |
Clyde E. Fant | 1946 | 1954 | Dem. | |
James C. Gardner | 1954 | 1958 | Dem. | Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954 |
Clyde E. Fant | 1958 | 1970 | Dem. | Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor. |
L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. | 1970 | 1978 | Dem. | |
William T. Hanna, Jr. | 1978 | 1982 | Dem. | |
John Brennan Hussey | 1982 | 1990 | Dem. | |
Hazel Beard | 1990 | 1994 | Rep. | First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era |
Robert W. "Bo" Williams | 1994 | 1998 | Rep. | |
Keith Hightower | 1998 | 2006 | Dem. | |
Cedric B. Glover | 2006 | 2014 | Dem. | First African-American mayor |
Ollie Tyler | 2014 | incumbent | Dem. | First African-American female mayor |
Notes
Cedric Glover was elected in 2006 over a Republican opponent, Jerry Jones, and reelected in 2010 over another Republican opponent, city council member Bryan Wooley.
Ollie Tyler became the first African-American female mayor in 2014, when she defeated Independent Victoria Provenza and African-American State Representative Patrick C. Williams.