List of mayors of Owensboro, Kentucky
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Owensboro, Kentucky, United States.
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- Edward S. Ayres, 1866 [1][2]
- Samuel Dyson Kennady, 1866–1872 [1]
- Ben Bransford, c.1872–1874 [3]
- George Brown, c.1874–1878 [3]
- John Thixton, 1878–1880 [1]
- James K. Tharpe, c.1880–1883 [3]
- Joseph Lee, 1884–1890 [1]
- James H. Hickman, 1890–1897, 1913–1918, 1922–1926 [1]
- Warden Pope Small, 1897–1901 [1]
- Martin Yewell, 1901–1905 [1]
- William Meigs O'Bryan, 1905–1909 [1]
- Stinson Lambert, 1909–1913 [1]
- John Caldwell Calhoon, 1918–1922 [1]
- James Robert "J. R." Beck, 1926–1930 [1]
- Logan Meredith, 1930–1934 [1]
- Fred Lawrence Weir, 1934–1938, 1942–1946, 1950–1952 [1]
- Harry Charles Smith, 1938–1942 [1]
- Glenn Adams Lovern, 1946–1950 [1]
- Fred L. Weir, c.1951–1952 [3]
- LeRoy Woodward, 1952–1954 [1]
- Casper "Cap" Steinmetz Gardner, 1954–1958 [1]
- Benjamin Walker Hawes, 1958–1964 [1]
- Dugan Best, 1964–1967 [1]
- Irvin Terrill, 1967–1972 [1]
- Cloran Waitman Taylor Jr., 1972–1976 [1]
- John Calhoun "Jack" Fisher, 1976–1980, 1984–1988 [1]
- James Rufus "J. R." Miller, 1980–1984 [1]
- David Cyrus Adkisson, 1988–1995 [1]
- Waymond Morris, 1995–2004 [4]
- Tom Watson, 2005–2008, 2017–present[5]
- Ron Payne, 2011–2016 [6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Mayors—Kentucky—Owensboro", Kentucky Room Digital Archive, Owensboro, KY, retrieved April 28, 2025 – via Daviess County Public Library
- ^ History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co., 1883 – via HathiTrust
- ^ a b c d Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Owensboro, Kentucky", Political Graveyard, retrieved April 28, 2025
- ^ "Mayor", owensboro.org, City of Owensboro, archived from the original on June 26, 1998 – via Wayback Machine
- ^ "Owensboro Board of Commissioners", owensboro.org, retrieved April 28, 2025
- ^ "A Kentucky City Reinvents a Faded Downtown", nytimes.com, November 15, 2011