List of Mayors

Following is a list of mayors of the American city of

Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had ...

. # Edwin Bird Allen (1871–1872) # James G. Hope (1873–1874) #

George E. Harris George Emrick Harris (January 6, 1827 – March 19, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Biography Born in Orange County, North Carolina, Harris moved to Tennessee and thence to Mississippi. He attended the common schools. He st ...

(1875) # James G. Hope (1876–1877) # William Greiffenstein (1878) # Sol H. Kohn (1879) # William Greiffenstein (1879–1884) # Benajah W. Aldrich (1885–1886) #

Joseph P. Allen Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV (born June 27, 1937) is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft. Early life and education Allen was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on June 27, 1937. His parents, Mr. ...

(1887–1888) # George W. Clement (1889–1890) # John B. Carey (1891–1892) # Lindley Murray Cox (1893–1896) # Finlay Ross (1897–1900) # Benjamin Franklin McLean (1901–1904) # Finlay Ross (1905–1906) # John H. Graham (1907–1908) # Charles Lock Davidson (1909–1910) # William Walter Minick (1911–1912) #

William Jasper Babb William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

(1913–1914) # Orsemus Hills Bentley (1915–1916) # Lewis William Clapp (1917–1919) # John Lee Powell (1919–1920) # Wallace C. Kemp (1921–1922) #

George Henry Hamilton George Henry Hamilton (April 4, 1875 – January 19, 1948) was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1932 to 1941. Hamilton served three terms in the Illinois legislature. In 1912 he purchased the State Savings Bank of Wichit ...

(1922) #

William Coffin Coleman William Coffin Coleman (May 21, 1870 – November 2, 1957) was a businessman, the American founder of the Coleman Company, a maker of camping equipment, and a politician. He served as the Mayor of Wichita, Kansas from 1923 to 1924. Biography ...

(1922–1923) # Benjamin Franklin McLean (1923–1924) #

Frank Leslie Dunn Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curr ...

(1924–1925) # Ben F. Copley (1925–1926) #

Frank Nighswonger Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curr ...

(1926–1927) # A.J. Coombs (1927–1928) #

(1928–1929) # Charles S. Lawrence (1929–1930) # Herman A. Hill (1930–1931) #

(1931–1932) # Harry D. Cottman (1932–1933) # Charles S. Lawrence (1933–1934) #

James Schuyler Crawford James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

(1934–1935) #

(1935–1936) # Robert E. Israel (1936–1937) # T. Walker Weaver (1937–1938) # Elmer R. Corn (1938–1939) # Frank W. Coleman (1939–1940) # Elmer R. Corn (1940–1941) # John I. Dotson (1941–1942) # Odom Farrell Sullivan (1942–1943) # Eugene Calendar Moriarty (1943–1944) # Herman William Beuttel (1944–1945) # Phil H. Manning (1945–1946) # Frank W. Coleman (1946–1947) # Charles S. Ritchie (1947–1948) # L.A. Donnell (1948–1949) # William Christian Salome, Jr. (1949–1950) # Earl K. Duke (1950–1951) # Floyd Throckmorton Amsden (1951–1952) # Frank Russell Jump (1952–1953) # Walter M. Keeler (1953–1954) # William Christian Salome, Jr. (1954) # L.A. Donnell (1954–1955) # Claude M. DeVorss (1955–1956) # Hugh David Lester (1956) # Alfred E. Howse (1956–1957) # Elzie E. Baird (1957–1958) # James L. Gardner (1958–1959) # Justus H. Fugate (1959–1960) # Levi Budd Rymph (1960–1961) # Herbert Piper Lindsley (1961–1962) # Carl A. Bell, Jr. (1962–1963) # Gerald F. Byrd (1963–1964) # Vincent L. Bogart (1964–1965) # William D. Tarrant (1965–1966) # John S. Stevens (1966–1967) # Clarence Eldert Vollmer (1967–1968) # William D. Anderson, Jr. (1968–1969) # Donald K. Enoch (1969–1970) # A. Price Woodard Jr. (1970–1971), first appointed African–American mayor # Jack H. Greene (1971–1972) # Glenn J. "Jack" Shanahan (1972–1973) # James M. Donnell (1973–1974) # Garry L. Porter (1974–1975) # Connie Ames Peters Kennard (1975–1976) # James M. Donnell (1976–1977) # Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (1977–1978) # Connie Ames Peters Kennard (1978–1979) # Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (1979–1980) #

Robert G. Knight Robert G. "Bob" Knight (born July 31, 1941) was the Republican List of mayors of Wichita, Kansas, mayor of Wichita, Kansas for seven terms. He first ran for office, Wichita City Council, in 1979. He also served under Democratic Governor Joan Finn ...

(1980–1981) # Robert C. Brown (1981–1982) # Albert J. Kirk (1982–1983) # Margalee Wright (1983–1984) #

(1984–1985) # Kathlien Robertson Edmiston (1985) # Robert C. Brown (1985–1986) # Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (1986–1987) #

(1987–1988) # Sheldon Kamen (1988–1989) #

(1989–1992) # Frank M. Ojile (1992–1993) # Elma Broadfoot (1993–1995) #

(1995–2003) #

Carlos Mayans Carlos Mayans (born July 8, 1948) became mayor of the city of Wichita, Kansas in April 2003. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948 and emigrated to the United States through the Operation Peter Pan shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. In ...

(2003–2007) # Carl Brewer (2007–2015), first elected African–American mayor #

Jeff Longwell Jeff Longwell (born June 15, 1960) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 101st mayor of Wichita, Kansas from 2015 to 2020. Prior to his election as mayor, Longwell served eight years on the Wichita city council and twelve ...

(2015–2020) #

Brandon Whipple Brandon Whipple (born July 13, 1982) is an American politician and academic serving as mayor of Wichita, Kansas. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 96th district, which included p ...

(2020–present)

List of Mayors

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