List of mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee

This is a list of mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Years ServedMayor[1]
1840[a]James Enfield Berry
1841Dr. Beriah Frazier
1842-1843Dr. Milo Smith
1844-1845Dr. Joseph Strong Gillespie
1846-1848Henry White Massengale
1849Thomas Crutchfield, Sr.
1850-1852Dr. Milo Smith
1853Henry White Massengale
1854William Williams
1854William F. Ragsdale
1855Eldridge Gerry Pearl
1856David Claiborne McMillin
1857William D. Fulton
1858William Samuel Bell
1859Thomas Crutchfield, Jr.
1860Charles Erskine Grenville
1861James Cartwright Warner
1862-1863Milo Smith
1863-1865Under direct control of the United States Army for duration of Civil War
1865Richard Henderson
1866Charles E. Lewis
1867-1868Dudley C. Carr
1869Alonzo G. Sharpe
1870-1871William P. Rathburn
1871-1872John T. Wilder
1872Josiah Jackson Bryan
1873Eli M. Wight
1874Philander D. Sims
1875John W. James
1876Col. Tomlinson Fort, Jr. (Dem)
1877Eli M. Wight
1878Thomas J. Carlisle
1878Andrew Jackson Gahagan
1879Jesse Thomas Hill
1880Henry Frederick Temple
1881John A. Hart
1882-1883Henry Clay Evans (Rep)
1883-1885[b]Hugh Whiteside
1885-1887Alonzo G. Sharpe
1887-1889John B. Nicklin
1889-1891John A. Hart
1891Isaac B. Merriman
1891-1893Garnet Andrews
1893-1897George W. Ochs
1897-1899Edmund Watkins
1899-1901Joseph Wassman
1901-1905William Little Frierson
1905-1907
1907-1909William Riley Crabtree
1909-1915[c]T.C. Thompson
1915-1919Jesse M. Littleton
1919-1923Alexander Wilds Chambliss
1923-1927Richard Hardy
1927-1947Edward Davis "E.D." Bass (Dem)
1947Elijah Radford Betterton
1947-1951Hugh Wasson
1951-1963Peter Rudolph "Rudy" Olgiati
1963-1969Ralph H. Kelley
1969-1971Austin Letheridge "Chunk" Bender (Dem)
1971S. Dean Peterson
1971-1975Robert Kirk Walker
1975-1983Charles A. “Pat” Rose
1983-1997Gene Roberts
1997-2001Jon Kinsey (Dem)
2001-2005Bob Corker (Rep)
2005-2013Ron Littlefield (Ind)
2013-Andy Berke (Dem)

Notes
[a] From 1840-1882, all mayors served one year terms, with several mayors elected to successive terms.
[b] From 1883-1911, all mayors served two year terms, with several mayors elected to successive terms.
[c] From 1911 to the present, most mayors have served four year terms, with several mayors elected to successive terms.

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