Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida

The Mayor of Tallahassee is head of the executive branch of the government of Tallahassee, Florida.

Mayor of Tallahassee
Seal of City of Tallahassee
Incumbent
John E. Dailey
since November 19, 2018
Term length4 years
Inaugural holderCharles Haire
Formation1826
Website
Elections in Florida
Government

List

Antebellum period
  • 1826 Charles Haire (Florida politician)[1] was elected Intendant
  • 1828-1829 John Y. Gary
  • 1831 Charles Austin (politician)
  • 1834 Robert J. Hackley, a pioneer settler sent by his father to an area by Tampa Bay. He was dispossessed of his land for the establishment of Fort Brooke.[5] A case on behalf of his heirs went to the Supreme Court.
  • 1835 William Wilson (Florida politician)
  • 1836 John Rea (Florida politician)
  • 1837 William P. Gorman
  • 1838 William Hilliard (Florida politician)
  • 1839 R. F. Ker
  • 1845 James A. Berthelot, he also served in the General Assembly[6] and campaigned for another office on a no tax anti bond platform advertised on a poster.[7] He was a mason and part of the Grand Lodge of Florida
  • 1846 Simon Towle, was also a state comptroller. Owned the Towle House (Tallahassee, Florida)[8]
  • 1847 James Kirksey
  • 1848 F. H. Flagg
  • 1849 Thomas J. Perkins (Florida politician)
  • 1850-1851 D. P. Hogue (also David P. Hogue or David Porter Hogue, a lawyer[9] who served as Attorney General in Florida.[10]
  • 1853 Richard Hayward (Florida politician)
  • 1854-1855 Thomas Hayward (Florida politician)
  • 1858-1860 D. P. Hogue

Civil War era and Reconstruction
  • 1861-1865 P. T. Pearce, he was appointed a trustee of the West Florida Seminary
  • 1867-1868 D. P. Hogue
  • 1869-1870 Thaddeus Preston Tatum, was a druggist and served in the Battle of Natural Bridge. lived September 27 1835 - July 4 1873 and is buried in the Old City Cemetery.[11]
  • 1872-1874 C. H. Edwards

Post-Reconstruction
  • 1877 Jesse Bernard (also known as J. T. Bernard and Jesse Talbot Bernard), first Democratic mayor after Reconstruction, which ended the year he was elected.
  • 1878-1879 David S. Walker, Jr.
  • 1880 Henry Bernreuter, born in Columbus, Georgia to German immigrants, he moved as a child with his family to Florida. He was a Confederate veteran who later served as sheriff and police chief.[13][14]
  • 1881 Edward Lewis (Florida politician
  • 1882 John W. Nash
  • 1883 Edward Lewis (Florida politician)
  • 1884-1885 Charles C. Pearce
  • 1886 George W. Walker (Tallahassee, FL mayor)
  • 1887 A. J. Fish
  • 1888-1889 R. B. Gorman, served in the Confederate Army and was postmaster in Tallahassee.[15][16] As mayor, he signed on to a letter from the merchants of Tallahassee to the U.S. Army's Chief of Engineers calling for the St. Marks River to be made navigable to promote trade.[17] In 1889 he reported on negotiations with a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company for a water works system.[18]
  • 1890-1894 Richard B. Carpenter, a shopkeeper. Later went into bankruptcy and had a legal case for exemption given individuals declaring bankruptcy, even though the firm was established as a separate entity. Decided on appeal in his favor.[19]
  • 1895-1896 Jesse Talbot Bernard, a teacher and judge who travelled around Florida to hear cases. Served in the Confederate Army. He kept a diary.[20]
  • 1897 R. A. Shine
  • 1898-1902 R. B. Gorman, return to office of mayor

20th century to WWII
  • 1903-1904 William L. Moor[21]
  • 1905 John Ward Henderson[22], he also served as a legislator.[23]
  • 1906 F. C. Gilmore
  • 1907 W. M. McIntosh, Jr., he also served as Chief Clerk of the state's Comptroller Office.[24]
  • 1908 F. C. Gilmore
  • 1909 Francis B. Winthrop, the Florida State Archives have a photo of the family home[25] as well as a photo of Winthrop, age 3.[26] Florida State University has a photo of him in what appears to be a military uniform ca. 1918[27] as well as some of his business documents in a collection of his family's papers.[28] His family owned the Barrow Hill Plantation and a house at 610 North Magnolia, which he lived in with his wife for years.
  • 1910-1917 D. M. Lowry
  • 1918 J. R. McDaniel
  • 1922-1923 A. P. McCaskill
  • 1924-1925 B. A. Meginniss
  • 1926 W. Theo Proctor
  • 1927 B.A. Meginniss
  • 1928-1929 W. Theo Proctor
  • 1930 G. E. Lewis
  • 1931 Frank D. Moor
  • 1932-1933 W. L. Marshall
  • 1934 J. L. Fain
  • 1935 Leonard A. Wesson
  • 1936 H. J. Yaeger [29] (H. Jack Yaeger)
  • 1937 L. A. Wesson (Leonard A. Wesson, lived at 503 McDaniel)
  • 1938 J. R. Jinks
  • 1939 S. A. Wahnish
  • 1940 F. C. Moor
  • 1941 Charles S. Ausley
  • 1942 Jack W. Simmons
  • 1943 A. R. Richardson
  • 1944 Charles S. Ausley
  • 1945 Ralph E. Proctor

Post-World War II
  • 1946 Fred S. Winterle, he and his son were involved in the oil distribution business.[30]
  • 1947 George I. Martin
  • 1948 Fred N. Lowry
  • 1951 William H. Cates
  • 1952 B. A. Ragsdale
  • 1953 William T. Mayo
  • 1954 H. G. Esterwood
  • 1954 H. C. Summitt
  • 1956 Fred S. Winterle, a return to office
  • 1956-1957 John Y. Humphress
  • 1957 J. W. Cordell
  • 1958 Davis H. Atkinson
  • 1959 Hugh E. Williams, Jr.
  • 1960 George S. Taft disambig needed
  • 1961 J. W. Cordell
  • 1962 Davis H. Atkinson
  • 1963 S. E. Teague, Jr. (Samuel)
  • 1964 Hugh E. Williams, Jr.
  • 1965 George S. Taft
  • 1966 William Haywood Cates, Sr., longest-serving city commissioner in history of Tallahassee. Eventually lost to the first African American elected as commissioner. His son drowned in a hunting accident. Was a religion professor at Florida State University and helped found religious organizations in Tallahassee.[31]
  • 1967 John A. Rudd, Sr.
  • 1968 Gene Berkowitz [32] He also served as a City Commissioner in Tallahassee[33] His wife was a schoolteacher.[34] As a commissioner he voted to reopen the city's public schools in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.[32]
  • 1969 Spurgeon Camp
  • 1970 Lee A. Everhart, founder and president of building company Everhart Construction Company[35]
  • 1971 Gene Berkowitz, return to office
  • 1977-1978 Neal D. Sapp, was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and graduated from Florida State University with a business. He was a software developer and businessman. He died March 26, 2004.
  • 1979 Sheldon A. Hilaman, also served as a City Commissioner. Went by Shad. Hillaman Golf Course is named for him.[36]
  • 1980-1981 Hurley W. Rudd, also served as a city commissioner and multiple terms in the Florida legislature[37]
  • 1984 Kent Spriggs, a Civil Rights lawyer who also edited a book about Civil Rights leaders in the deep south. Appeared on C-Span while mayor discussing his duties.[39]
  • 1985 Hurley W. Rudd
  • 1986 Jack McLean
  • 1987–1988 Betty Harley
  • 1988–1990 Dorothy Inman
  • 1990 Steve Meisberg
  • 1991–1992 Debbie Lightsey
  • 1993–1994 Dorothy Inman-Crews
  • 1994-1995 Penny Herman
  • 1996–1997 Ron Weaver (Florida politician)
  • 2003-2014 John Marks, longest-serving mayor in the city's history

See also

References
  1. "Tallahassee, Leon County". Viva Florida. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  2. "d.o. elected intendant in Tallahassee, fla. 1827". Newspapers.com.
  3. Burgess, Louis Alexander (1 January 1973). Virginia soldiers of 1776: compiled from documents on file in the Virginia Land Office; together with material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other reliable sources. Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 9780806305295 – via Google Books.
  4. Floridian and Advocate (Tallahassee, Florida), Dec. 27, 1834, p. 3: Obituary
  5. Burnett, Gene M. (1 June 1996). Florida's Past: People and Events That Shaped the State. Pineapple Press Inc. ISBN 9781561641178 – via Google Books.
  6. "A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the ... General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its ... Session". 7 December 2018. p. 3.
  7. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Campaign Poster for James A. Berthelot, James M. Gilchrist, and James H. Gibson". Florida Memory.
  8. "Towle House - Florida Historical Markers". Waymarking.com.
  9. Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida" – via Google Books.
  10. Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Florida Reports" – via Google Books.
  11. "Portrait of Thaddeus Preston Tatum - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  12. "Notes on Reconstruction in Tallahassee and Leon County, 1866-1876". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly. 5 (3): 153–158. 1927. JSTOR 30150750.
  13. "Henry Bernreuter, Memorial article by friend". The Weekly True Democrat.
  14. "BERNREUTER, Henry". Florida Memory.
  15. "R B Gorman obit 17 April 1918 - Newspapers.com". Tallahassee Democrat.
  16. House, Florida Legislature (8 December 1881). "Journal ..." pp. 2–27.
  17. "Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army". U.S. Government Printing Office. 8 December 1889 – via Google Books.
  18. "The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer". McGraw Publishing Company. 8 December 1889.
  19. "Mayor r b carpenter bankrupt - Newspapers.com". Tampa Bay Times.
  20. Phillips, Rebecca; Bernard, Jesse Talbot (1939). "A Diary of Jesse Talbot Bernard". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 18 (2): 115–126. JSTOR 30145327.
  21. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Tallahassee Junior Museum officials". Florida Memory. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  22. History of Florida, Past and Present: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1923.
  23. "Search Results". Florida Memory.
  24. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Portrait of William M. McIntosh Jr. standing by the Capitol - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  25. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Winthrop family home at 610 N. Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  26. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Francis B. Winthrop at age three". Florida Memory.
  27. "Francis B. Winthrop - fsu.digital.flvc.org". fsu.digital.flvc.org.
  28. "Winthrop Family Papers, 1592-1970 - FSU Special Collections & Archives". fsuarchon.fcla.edu.
  29. Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.). "Mayors and Postmasters of Tallahassee, Florida". Political Graveyard. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  30. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Fred S. Winterle and son's Gulf oil distribution trucks". Florida Memory.
  31. "Cates Ave. named for former city commissioner". Tallahassee Democrat.
  32. "Letter: Was it Wade or Berkowitz who reopened city pools?". Tallahassee Democrat.
  33. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "New City Commissioner Gene Berkowitz with his wife in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
  34. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Gene Berkowitz reading to class in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
  35. Butcher, Lee (10 December 1976). Florida's power structure: who's part of it and why. Trend Pub. ISBN 9780882510699 – via Google Books.
  36. Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Men on the course at the Winewood Golf Club in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  37. 2006 obituary in the Tallahassee Democrat
  39. "Kent Spriggs - C-SPAN.org". C-span.org.
  40. "City Officials". City of Tallahassee. Archived from the original on June 5, 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
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