This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.
The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.[4]
Pre-consolidation mayors
| #
|
Mayor
|
Term start
|
Term end
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| 1
|
Charlton Hunt
|
1832
|
1835
|
| 2
|
James E. Davis
|
1835
|
1837
|
| 3
|
James G. McKinney
|
1837
|
1839
|
| 4
|
Charles H. Wickliffe
|
1839
|
1841
|
| 5
|
Daniel Bradford
|
1841
|
1842
|
| 6
|
James Logue
|
1842
|
1846
|
| 7
|
Thomas Ross
|
1846
|
1847
|
| 8
|
John Henry
|
1847
|
1848
|
| 9
|
George Payne Jouett
|
1848
|
1849
|
| 10
|
Orlando F. Payne
|
1849
|
1851
|
| 11
|
Edward W. Dowden
|
1851
|
1854
|
| 12
|
Thomas H. Pindell
|
1854
|
1855
|
| 13
|
William Swift
|
1855
|
1859
|
| 14
|
Thomas B. Monroe Jr.
|
1859
|
1860
|
| 15
|
Benjamin F. Graves
|
1860
|
1862
|
| 16
|
Caleb Thomas Worley
|
1862
|
1863
|
| 17
|
Joseph Wingate
|
1863
|
1866
|
| 18
|
David W. Standiford
|
1866
|
1867
|
| 19
|
Jerry T. Frazier
|
1867
|
1868
|
| 20
|
Joseph G. Chinn
|
1868
|
1869
|
| 21
|
Jerry T. Frazier
|
1869
|
1880
|
| 22
|
Claude M. Johnson
|
1880
|
1888
|
| 23
|
Charles W. Foushee
|
1888
|
1892
|
| 24
|
J. Hull Davidson
|
1892
|
1893
|
| 25
|
Henry T. Duncan
|
1894
|
1896
|
| 26
|
Joseph Bullock Simrall
|
1896
|
1900
|
| 27
|
Henry T. Duncan
|
1900
|
1904
|
| 28
|
Thomas A. Combs
|
1904
|
1908
|
| 28
|
R. B. Waddy
|
1907
|
1908
|
| 29
|
John Skain
|
1908
|
1912
|
| 30
|
J. Ernest Cassidy
|
1912
|
1916
|
| 31
|
James C. Rogers
|
1916
|
1919
|
| 32
|
William H. McCorkle
|
1919
|
1920
|
| 33
|
Thomas Clark Bradley
|
1920
|
1924
|
| 34
|
Hogan Yancey
|
1924
|
1928
|
| 35
|
James J. O'Brien
|
1928
|
1932
|
| 36
|
William Thomas Congleton
|
1932
|
1934
|
| 37
|
Charles R. Thompson
|
1934
|
1935
|
| 38
|
E. Reed Wilson
|
1935
|
1940
|
| 39
|
T. Ward Havely
|
1940
|
1943
|
| 40
|
R. Mack Oldham
|
1943
|
1948
|
| 41
|
Thomas G. Mooney
|
1948
|
1952
|
| 42
|
Fred Fugazzi
|
1952
|
1956
|
| 43
|
Shelby C. Kinkead
|
1956
|
1960
|
| 44
|
Richard J. Colbert
|
1960
|
1964
|
| 45
|
Charles Wylie
|
1968
|
1971
|
| 46
|
H. Foster Pettit
|
1971
|
1974
|
Post-consolidation mayors
References
Sources
- Peter, Robert (1979). History of Fayette County, Kentucky. Southern Historical Press. ISBN 9780893081638.
- Wright, John Dean (1982). Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass. Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission. ISBN 9780912839066.
- Shawn Gillen (2010). "'The urge to merge:' the consolidation of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky". In Suzanne M. Leland; Kurt Thurmaier (eds.). City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-622-4.
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