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Mayors

The cities of Washington and Georgetown had separate mayors from 1802 - 1871. From 1871 through 1874, the District of Columbia was administered by Governors. From 1874 to 1974, the District was administered by a Board of Commissioners that was appointed by the President of the United States. From 1975 to the present day, the District, given home rule, has been administered by a popularly elected mayor and city council. The mayor of Washington, D.C. can be thought of as analogous to the city mayors of other cities in the United States, but in some manners can also be thought of as analogous to governors of other states. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mayors of Washington (1802 - 1871) Mayors were appointed from 1802 until 1820, and then were elected. Mayor   Term of Office Robert Brent   1802 - 1812 Daniel Rapine   1812 - 1813 James H. Blake   1813 - 1817 Benjamin G. Orr   1817 - 1819 Samuel N. Smallwood   1819 - 1822 Thomas Carbery   1822 - 1824 Samuel N. Smallwood   1824 - 1824 Roger C. Weightman   1824 - 1827 Joseph Gales, Jr.   1827 - 1830 John P. Van Ness   1830 - 1834 William A. Bradley   1834 - 1836 Peter Force   1836 - 1840 William Winston Seaton   1840 - 1850 Walter Lenox   1850 - 1852 John W. Maury   1852 - 1854 John Thomas Towers   1854 - 1856 William B. Magruder   1856 - 1858 James G. Berret   1858 - 1861 Richard Wallach   1861 - 868 Sayles J. Bowen   1868 - 1870 Matthew Gault Emery   1870 - 1871 Mayors of Georgetown (1790 - 1871)     Mayor   Term of Office Robert Peter   1790 - 1791 Thomas Beale   1791 - 1792 Uriah Forrest   1792 - 1793 John Threlkeld   1793 - 1794 Peter Casenave   1794 - 1795 Thomas Turner   1795 - 1796 Daniel Reintzel   1796 - 1797 Lloyd Beall   1797 - 1799 Daniel Reintzel   1799 - 1804 Thomas Corcoran   1805 - 1806 Daniel Reintzel   1806 - 1807 Thomas Corcoran   1808 - 1810 David Wiley   1811 - 1812 Thomas Corcoran   1812 - 1813 John Peter   1813 - 1818 Henry Foxall   1819 - 1820 John Peter   1821 - 1822 John Cox   1823 - 1845 Henry Addison   1845 - 1857 Richard R. Crawford   1857 - 1861 Henry Addison   1861 - 1867 Charles D. Welch   1867 - 1869 Henry M. Sweeney   1869 - 1871

Governors of the District of Columbia (1871 - 1874) Governor   Term of Office Henry Cooke   1871 - 1873 Alexander Shepherd   1873 - 1874

Presidents of the Board of Commissioners President   Term of Office William Dennison   1874 - 1878 Seth Ledyard Phelps   1878 - 1879 Josiah Dent   1879 - 1882 Joseph Rodman West   1882 - 1883 James Barker Edmonds   1883 - 1886 William Benning Webb   1886 - 1889 John Watkinson Douglass   1889 - 1893 John Wesley Ross   1893 - 1898 John Brewer Wright   1898 - 1900 Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland   1901 - 1909 Cuno Hugo Rudolph   1910 - 1913 Oliver Peck Newman   1913 - 1917 Louis Brownlow   1917 - 1920 Charles Willauer Kent   1920 - 1920 Cuno Hugo Rudolph   1920 - 1926 Proctor L. Dougherty   1926 - 1930 Luther Halsey Reichelderfer   1930 - 1933 Melvin Colvin Hazen   1933 - 1941 John Russell Young   1941 - 1952 F. Joseph Donohue   1952 - 1953 Samuel Spencer   1953 - 1956 Robert E. McLaughlin   1956 - 1961 Walter Nathan Tobriner   1961 - 1967 Walter Washington   1967 - 1975

In 1973, Congress passed the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, ceding some of its power over the city to a new, directly elected city council and mayor. District of Columbia Mayors (1975 - present day) Mayor   Term of Office   Political Party Walter Washington   1975 - 1979   Democrat Marion S. Barry   1979 - 1991   Democrat Sharon Pratt Kelly Elected as Sharon Pratt Dixon but remarried during her term.   1991 - 1995   Democrat Marion S. Barry   1995 - 1999   Democrat Anthony A. Williams   1999 - present   Democrat

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