List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana facts for kids
Being the mayor of a city like Shreveport is a very important job! A mayor is the leader of a city government. They help make decisions about how the city runs, like managing public services, planning new projects, and representing the city to the rest of the world.
This page lists all the people who have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, from the very beginning until today. It shows when they served, and which political party they belonged to.
Shreveport's Mayors Through History
This table shares information about each person who has been the mayor of Shreveport. You can see their name, when they were mayor, and their political party.
| Mayor | From | To | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angus McNeill | 1836 | 1839 | None | Leader of the Shreve Town Company. |
| John Octavius Sewall | 1839 | 1840 | Whig | Shreveport's first elected mayor. |
| William Walton George, M.D. | 1840 | 1840 | Democratic | |
| Samuel W. Briggs | 1841 | 1841 | None | |
| William Walton George, M.D. | 1842 | 1843 | Democratic | |
| John N. Howell | 1844 | 1844 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1845 | 1845 | Democratic | |
| Lawrence Pike Crain | 1846 | 1847 | Democratic | |
| Robert Nathaniel Wood | 1847 | 1847 | Whig/Know Nothing | Sadly passed away while in Mexico. |
| John Morgan Landrum | 1848 | 1848 | Democratic | Later elected to Congress in 1859. |
| Rev. John Bryce | 1849 | 1849 | Democratic | |
| Robert W. Cooke | 1850 | 1850 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1851 | 1853 | Democratic | |
| John Wallace Jones | 1854 | 1857 | Democratic | |
| Jonas Robeson | 1858 | 1858 | Democratic | |
| John W. Pennall | 1859 | 1859 | Democratic | Also served as Mayor of Homer, LA. |
| Jonas Robeson | 1860 | 1861 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1862 | 1863 | Democratic | |
| John Gooch, Samuel Wells | 1864 | 1865 | Democratic | Gooch was replaced by Wells during a difficult time. |
| Alexander Boarman | 1866 | 1867 | Republican. | Appointed during a special time. |
| Lewis S. Markham | 1867 | 1867 | Dem. | Served for only one month. |
| Martin Tally | 1867 | 1868 | Republican | Appointed during the Reconstruction era. |
| Jerome B. Gilmore | 1869 | 1871 | Republican | Appointed during the Reconstruction era. |
| William Rabun Shivers | 1871 | 1871 | Dem. | Sadly passed away before he could serve his term. |
| Moses Hodge Crowell | 1871 | 1872 | Republican | Appointed by the Union. |
| Joseph Taylor, M.D. | 1872 | 1873 | Dem. | Was not allowed to serve by federal authorities. |
| Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh | 1872 | 1873 | Republican | Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. |
| Samuel J. Ward | 1874 | 1874 | Democratic | Born in Wales. |
| W. Nick Murphy | 1875 | 1878 | Republican/Democratic | Switched from Republican to Democrat. |
| Andrew Currie | 1878 | 1889 | Democratic | Resigned in 1890. Born in Ireland. |
| Edward B. Herndon | 1890 | 1890 | Democratic | Elected to finish an unfinished term. |
| Richard Tucker Vinson | 1891 | 1895 | Democratic | |
| Reuben Neil McKellar | 1896 | 1900 | Democratic | Moved to Shreveport as a teenager. |
| Benjamin Holzman | 1900 | 1902 | Democratic | Born in Germany. |
| Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. | 1902 | 1906 | Democratic | Born in New Orleans. |
| Ernest Ralph Berstein | 1906 | 1908 | Democratic | |
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1908 | 1910 | Democratic | |
| John Henry Eastham, Jr. | 1910 | 1914 | Democratic | First mayor under a new city government style. |
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1914 | 1916 | Democratic | |
| Robert Hodges Ward | 1916 | 1918 | Democratic | Son of former Mayor Samuel J. Ward. |
| John McWilliams Ford | 1918 | 1922 | Democratic | |
| Lee Emmett Thomas | 1922 | 1930 | Democratic | Also a Louisiana State Representative. |
| J. G. Palmer | 1930 | 1932 | Democratic | A Louisiana State Judge. |
| John McWilliams Ford | 1932 | 1932 | Democratic | |
| George W. Hardy, Jr. | 1932 | 1934 | Democratic | A Louisiana State Judge. |
| Samuel S. Caldwell | 1934 | 1946 | Democratic | |
| Clyde E. Fant | 1946 | 1954 | Democratic | |
| James C. Gardner | 1954 | 1958 | Democratic | Also a Louisiana State Representative. |
| Clyde E. Fant | 1958 | 1970 | Democratic | Served the longest term as Shreveport Mayor. |
| L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. | 1970 | 1978 | Democratic | |
| William T. Hanna, Jr. | 1978 | 1982 | Democratic | |
| John Brennan Hussey | 1982 | 1990 | Democratic | |
| Hazel Beard | 1990 | 1994 | Republican | First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era. |
| Robert W. "Bo" Williams | 1994 | 1998 | Republican | |
| Keith Hightower | 1998 | 2006 | Democratic | |
| Cedric B. Glover | 2006 | 2014 | Democratic | Shreveport's first African-American mayor. |
| Ollie Tyler | 2014 | 2018 | Democratic | Shreveport's first African-American female mayor. |
| Adrian Perkins | 2018 | 2022 | Democratic | |
| Martin Thomas “Tom” Arceneaux | 2022 | Incumbent | Republican |
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