List of mayors of Terre Haute, Indiana facts for kids
This is a list of mayors of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Town of Terre Haute
| # | Name | Term start | Term end | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elijah Tillotson (1791–1857; aged 66) |
1838 | 1838 | ||
| 2 | Dr. Marcus Hitchcock (1781–1848; aged 66) |
1838 | 1839 | ||
| 3 | Britton M. Harrison | June 1839 | 1843 |
"On Feb. 9, 1843, the office of Mayor was abolished by a special act of the Legislature in 1843, the president of the common council administered mayoral duties until the city was incorporated in 1853. Under the new constitution of the State of Indiana, a General Law was approved on June 18, 1852, providing for the incorporation of cities."
City of Terre Haute
| # | Name | Term start | Term end | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | William Kirkpatrick Edwards (1820–1878; aged 57) |
June 1853 | May 1855 | Whig | |
| 5 | James Hook (1815–1895; aged 80) |
1855 | 1856 | ||
| 6 | Chambers Y. Patterson (1824–1881; aged 56–57) |
1856 | 1860 | Democratic | |
| 7 | William H. Stewart | 1861 | 1863 | ||
| 8 | Albert Lange (1801–1869; aged 67–68) |
1863 | 1867 | Republican | |
| 9 | Grafton Fleener Cookerly (1815–1885; aged 70) |
1867 | 1871 | Democratic | |
| 10 | Alexander Thomas | 1871 | 1875 | ||
| 11 | James B. Edmunds | 1875 | 1877 | ||
| 12 | Henry Fairbanks | 1877 | 1878 | ||
| 13 | Joseph M. Wildy | 1878 | 1879 | Democratic | |
| 14 | Benjamin F. Havens (1839–1914; aged 75) |
1879 | 1881 | ||
| 15 | James B. Lyne | 1881 | 1883 | ||
| 16 | William H. Armstrong | 1883 | 1885 | ||
| 17 | Jacob C. Kolsem | 1885 | 1889 | Republican | |
| 18 | Frank C. Donaldson | 1889 | 1891 | Republican | |
| 19 | James M. Allen | 1891 | 1892 | ||
| 20 | Henry M. Griswold | 1892 | 1892 | Republican | |
| 21 | Frederick A. Ross | 1892 | 1898 | ||
| 22 | Henry C. Steeg | 1898 | 1904 | Democratic | |
| 23 | Edwin H. Bidaman | 1904 | July 6, 1906 | Republican | |
| 24 | Frank M. Buckingham | July 7, 1906 | 1906 | Republican | |
| 25 | James Lyons | 1906 | 1910 | Democratic | |
| 26 | Louis A. Gerhardt | 1910 | 1914 | ||
| 27 | Donn M. Roberts (1867–1936; aged 68) |
1914 | May 1915 | Democratic | |
| 28 | James Murrell Gossom | 1915 | 1917 | Democratic | |
| 29 | Charles S. Hunter | 1918 | 1922 | Republican | |
| 30 | Ora D. Davis | 1922 | 1930 | Republican | |
| 31 | Wood J. Posey | 1930 | 1935 | ||
| 32 | Samuel E. Beecher Sr. (1893–1973; aged 80) |
1935 | 1939 | ||
| 33 | Joseph P. Duffy | 1939 | 1943 | ||
| 34 | Vernon R. McMillan (1892–1968; aged 76) |
1943 | 1947 | Republican | |
| 35 | Ralph Tucker (1906–1977; aged 71) |
January 1, 1948 | 1967 | Democratic | |
| 36 | Leland Larrison (1907–1992; aged 85) |
1968 | 1972 | Republican | |
| 37 | William J. Brighton (1929–1992; aged 63) |
1972 | 1979 | Democratic | |
| 38 | P. Pete Chalos (1927–2006; aged 78) |
1980 | 1996 | Democratic | |
| 39 | Jim Jenkins | 1996 | 1999 | Democratic | |
| 40 | Judy A. Anderson (born in 1941; age 83) |
2000 | 2003 | Democratic | |
| 41 | Kevin D. Burke | 2004 | 2008 | Democratic | |
| 42 | Duke Bennett | January 2008 | Present | Republican |
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