This is a list of mayors of Berkeley, California. The list includes people serving in the equivalent position of president, in the city's early history. *Presidents, Town Board of Trustees (1878–1909) **Abel Whitton ( Workingman's Party) 1878–1881 **A. McKinstry 1881–1883 **W.C. Wright (Republican) 1883–1885 **J.B. Henley 1885–1887 **Henry L. Whitney 1887–1889 ** Samuel Heywood / Joseph L. Scotchler (Republican) 1889–1891 **

Reuben Rickard Reuben Rickard (August 20, 1841 – February 24, 1896) was a mining engineer He married Mary Elizabeth Humphreys October 3, 1863. They had six children, three of whom died young. who served as President of the Town Board of Trustees in Berkeley, ...

(Republican) 1891–1893 **Byron E. Underwood / Martin J. Acton / Charles S. Preble 1893–1895 **Reuben Rickard (Republican) 1895 **John W. Richards 1895–1899 **

William H. Marston Captain William Harrington Marston (1835–1926) was an early resident of Berkeley, California. He served as President of the Town Board of Trustees from 1899 to 1903. Captain Marston was born in Cutler, Maine in November 1835, and orphaned at age ...

1899–1903 **

Thomas Rickard Thomas Rickard (1866–1911) was a mining engineer, an early resident of Berkeley, California, and served as the last President of the Town Board of Trustees from 1903 to 1909, before the new city charter went into effect, creating the office of ...

(Republican) 1903–1909 *Mayors **

Beverly L. Hodghead Beverly Lacy Hodghead (21 March 1865 – 16 October 1928) was the first mayor of the City of Berkeley, California, United States, serving from 1909 to 1911. Although Berkeley had been incorporated since 1878 as a Town, the office of mayor did not ...

(Democrat) 1909–1911 **

J. Stitt Wilson Jackson Stitt Wilson (March 19, 1868 – August 28, 1942) was a Canadian-born American politician. He was a Christian socialist and suffragist, and held Georgist economic views. A member of the Socialist Party of America, Wilson was the mayor of ...

( Socialist) 1911–1913 **

Charles D. Heywood Charles Dingley Heywood (1881–1957) was an American politician. He was member of a family prominent in the early history of Berkeley, California. He served as mayor of the City of Berkeley from 1913 to 1915. In 1925, he was appointed as the l ...

(Republican) 1913–1915 **

Samuel C. Irving Samuel C. Irving (1858–1930) served as mayor of the City of Berkeley, California from 1915 to 1919. Irving was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1858. He came to Berkeley to attend the University of California from which he graduated in 1879. Samuel ...

(Democrat) 1915–1919 **

Louis Bartlett Louis De Fontenay. Bartlett (1873–1951) was an attorney and Mayor of Berkeley, California, from 1919 to 1923. Bartlett was noted for his work to promote public utilities, especially water and power. Louis Bartlett was born in San Francisco ...

(Republican) 1919–1923 ** Frank D. Stringham (Republican) 1923–1927 ** Michael B. Driver (Republican) 1927–1930 **

Thomas E. Caldecott Thomas Edwin Caldecott (July 27, 1878 – July 23, 1951) was a pharmacist and politician. From 1923, Caldecott served in politics in Alameda County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1951. The Caldecott Tunnel which is a key highway ...

(Republican) 1930–1932 **

Edward N. Ament Edward Newton Ament (1860–1949) was Mayor of Berkeley, California, United States from 1932 to 1939. Ament was born in Arcata, California July 30, 1860. In 1889, he married Florence Moody. They had one daughter. Ament was the proprietor of the A ...

(Republican) 1932–1939 **

Frank S. Gaines Frank S. Gaines (1890–1977) was the Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1939 to 1943. Gaines was noted for his involvement in the Berkeley-based Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, a group which addressed the Japanese A ...

(Republican) 1939–1943 **

Fitch Robertson Fitch Robertson (February 12, 1896 – March 5, 1956) was Mayor of Berkeley, California, United States, from 1943 to 1947. He was born February 12, 1896, in Pueblo, Colorado. Robertson was a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines. He served d ...

(Republican) 1943–1946 ** Carrie L. Hoyt (Republican) 1947 (January–April) **

Laurance L. Cross Laurance L. Cross (April 13, 1892–August 27, 1966) was a Presbyterian minister and Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1947 to 1955. Cross was born in Gastonburg, Alabama. His father and two brothers were also pastors. One of his nephews is ...

(Democrat) 1947–1955 **

Claude B. Hutchison Claude Burton Hutchison (April 9, 1885 – August 25, 1980) was an American botanist, agricultural economist, educator, and politician who served as the mayor of Berkeley, California, from 1955 to 1963. Early life Hutchison was born on April 9 ...

(Republican) 1955–1963 ** Wallace Johnson (Republican) 1963–1971 ** Warren Widener (Democrat) 1971–1979, first African-American mayor ** Gus Newport, (Berkeley Citizens Action) 1979–1986 ** Loni Hancock, (Berkeley Citizens Action) 1986–1994 **Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter, 1994 (March–December) ** Shirley Dean, (Berkeley Democrat Club) 1994–2002 ** Tom Bates, 2002–2016 ** Jesse Arreguín, 2016–

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