Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky | |
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Incumbent Linda Gorton since January 6, 2019 | |
Formation | 1832 |
First holder | Charleton Hunt |
Website | Office of the Mayor |
This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.
The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.
Pre-consolidation mayors
# | Mayor | Term start | Term end |
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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 |
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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
- Peter 1979, p. 271.
- Wright 1982, p. 232.
- Gillen 2010.
- 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.
Sources
- Peter, Robert (1979). History of Fayette County, Kentucky. Southern Historical Press. ISBN 9780893081638.
- Wright, John Dean (1982). Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass. Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission. ISBN 9780912839066.
- Shawn Gillen (2010). "'The urge to merge:' the consolidation of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky". In Suzanne M. Leland; Kurt Thurmaier (eds.). City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-622-4.
Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Area | ||
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