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
 | 
| 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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