List of mayors of Lafayette, Louisiana

The Office of the Mayor of Lafayette, known historically as Vermilionville, was established by an amendment passed on March 9, 1869, which replaced the "regular preliminaries of laying out" enacted by the Legislature upon the incorporation of Vermilionville on March 11, 1836.[1] This amended city charter remained in place until 1914, when the citizens of Lafayette voted in favor of discarding the mayor-council government to be replaced by a city commission, the first of three members, the Commissioner of Public Safety, would serve as an ex-officio mayor.[2]

Mayor of Lafayette
Flag of the City of Lafayette, LA
Incumbent Josh Guillory since January 6, 2020
Style	The Honorable
Term length	Four years renewable three times
Inaugural holder	Alphonse Neveu
Formation	1869
Website	Mayor's Office website

List

#	Mayor	Term start	Term end		Party
1	Alphonse Neveu	1869	1870
2	William O. Smith	1870	1871
3	William Brandt	1871	1872		Democratic
4	William O. Smith	1872	1873
5	Auguste Monnier	1873	1875		Democratic
6	John O. Mouton	1875	1876
7	G. C. Salles	1876	1877
8	John O. Mouton	1877	1879
9	John Clegg	1879	1881		Democratic
10	M. P. Young	1881	1884
11	William B. Bailey	1884	1893		Democratic
12	William Campbell	1893	1895		Democratic
13	A. J. Moss	1895	1896		Democratic
14	Charles D. Caffery	1896	1899		Democratic
15	William Campbell	1899	1900		Democratic
16	Charles D. Caffery	1900	1905		Democratic
17	Charles O. Mouton	1905	1909		Democratic
18	George Armand Martin	1909	1911		Democratic
19	Anatole R. Trahan	1911	1913		Democratic
20	George Armand Martin	1913	1915		Democratic
21	Felix E. Girard Sr.	1915	1919		Democratic
22	Robert L. Mouton	1919	1927		Democratic
23	Joseph Gilbert St. Julien	1927	1931		Democratic
24	Robert L. Mouton	1931	1936		Democratic
25	J. Maxime Roy	1936	1944		Democratic
26	Claude C. Colomb	1944	1948		Democratic
27	Ashton J. Mouton	1948	1956		Democratic
28	Jerome E. Domengeaux	1956	1960		Democratic
29	J. Rayburn Bertrand	1960	1972		Democratic
30	Kenny Bowen	1972	1980		Democratic
31	Dud Lastrapes	1980	1992		Republican
32	Kenny Bowen	1992	1996		Democratic
33	Walter Comeaux	1996	2004		Democratic
34	Joey Durel	2004	2016		Republican
35	Joel Robideaux	2016	2020		Republican
36	Josh Guillory	2020	Incumbent		Republican

References

1. Perrin, William Henry (1891). Southwest Louisiana, Biographical and Historical. New Orleans: Gulf Publishing Company.
2. Griffin, Harry Lewis (1959). The Attakapas Country: A History of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company.

External links

• "The Lafayette Advertiser. (Vermilionville, La.) 1865–19??". Library of Congress.
• "The Lafayette Gazette. (Lafayette, La.) 1893–1921". Library of Congress.