The 1856 Dallas mayoral election was the first mayoral election in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

. The election was held on April 5, 1856. In the election, Dr.

Samuel B. Pryor Samuel B. Pryor (1816–1866) was the first mayor of Dallas, Texas. After Dallas was granted a town charter on February 2, 1856 by the Texas legislature, Pryor became the first mayor of Dallas. He led a town government which had six aldermen ...

defeated challenger and eventual mayor

A. D. Rice Anderson Doniphan Rice (1818 – October 10, 1869) was the third mayor of Dallas, Texas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the ...

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