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This is a list of mayors of Raleigh since the creation of the office in 1857. The Mayor is the head of a council-manager system of government for Raleigh , North Carolina . The office was created in 1857 when a new charter was established for the city to replace the original 1795 charter. Mayor William H. Harrison was mayor during the Confederate States of America and eventually surrendered the city back to the United States before Sherman's March to the Sea arrived.[1]
Intendants of Police [ ]
Under Raleigh's original 1795 charter, the equivalent of a mayor was called the "Intendant of Police" (a title borrowed from France ). The first person to hold the office was John Haywood . He was elected by the city board of commissioners (who were themselves appointed by the North Carolina General Assembly ). Starting in 1803, intendants of police were elected annually by all land-owning free men, including free African-Americans.[2] [3]
#
Mayor
Term start
Term end
1
John Haywood
1795
c. 1803
2
William White
1803
1806
3
William Hill
1806
1807[4]
4
Dr. Calvin Jones
1807
1809
5
John Marshall
1809
1811
6
Jonathan S. Robeteau
1812
1813
7
Sterling Yancey
1813
1814[5]
8
Alexander Lucas
1814
1816
9
Mark Cooke
1817
1819
10
Joseph Gales, Sr. (first time)
1819
1826
11
John Bell
1826
1827
12
Joseph Gales, Sr. (second time)
1827
1833
13
Thomas Cobbs
1833
1834
14
Weston Raleigh Gales (first time)
1835
1837
15
Thomas Cobbs
1837
1838
16
William C. Carrington
1838
1839
17
Thomas Cobbs
1839
1840
18
Joseph Gales, Sr. (third time)
1840
1841
19
William F. Clarke
1841
1842
20
Thomas Loring
1842
1843
21
Weston Raleigh Gales (second time)
1843
1847[6]
22
William Dallas Haywood
1847
1857[7]
List of mayors [ ]
#
Mayor
Term start
Term end
23
William Dallas Haywood (first time)
1857
1858
24
William H. Harrison (first time)
1858
1867
25
William Dallas Haywood (second time)
1867
1868
26
Charles B. Root[8]
1868
1869
27
William H. Harrison (second time)
1869
1872
28
Wesley Whitaker
1872
1874
29
Joseph W. Holden
1874
1875
30
John C. Gorman
1875
1875
31
Joseph Henry Separk (died in office)
1875
1875
32
Basil C. Manly (died in office)
1875
1882
33
William H. Dodd[9]
1882
1887
34
Alfred A. Thompson
1887
1891
35
Thomas Badger
1891
1895
36
William M. Russ
1895
1898
37
A. M. Powell
1898
1905
38
James I. Johnson (first time)
1905
1909
39
James S. Wynne
1909
1911
40
James I. Johnson (second time)
1911
1919
41
T. B. Eldridge
1919
1923
42
Eugene English Culbreth[10] [11]
1923
1931
43
George A. Iseley
1931
1939
44
Graham H. Andrews
1939
1947
45
Percey Daniel Snipes
1947
1951
46
James E. Briggs
1951
1953
47
[12]
1951
1957
48
William Gilmore Enloe
1957
1963
49
James William Reid
1963
1965
50
Travis Hocutt Tomlinson
1965
1969
51
Seby Brown Jones
1969
1971
52
Thomas Wood Bradshaw, Jr.
1971
1973
53
Clarence Everett Lightner
1973
1975
54
Jyles Jackson Coggins
1975
1977
55
Isabella McLean Bett Walton Cannon
1977
1979
56
George Smedes York
1979
1983
57
Avery Council Upchurch
1983
1993
58
Tom Harrison Fetzer
1993
1999
59
Paul Yelverton Coble
1999
2001
60
Charles Carpenter Meeker
2001
2011
61
Nancy Pletcher McFarlane
2011
2019
62
Mary-Ann Baldwin
2019
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See also [ ]
Timeline of Raleigh, North Carolina
[ ]
^ "Fall of Raleigh" . North Carolina Highway Historical Landmark Program . North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources . Retrieved January 3, 2021 .
^ Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900–1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition
^ "Historical Raleigh from its foundation in 1792" by Moses N. Amis Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Early history of Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina" Archived 2011-08-14 at the Wayback Machine by Kemp P. Battle
^ Murray, Elizabeth (1983). "Appendix D (Mayors)". Wake, Capital County of North Carolina, Volume 1, Prehistory Through Centennial . Wake County, North Carolina: Capital County Publishing, Raleigh. ASIN B000M0ZYF4 . OCLC 9584353 .
^ Elliot, Robert (1986). "The Raleigh Register, 1799-1863" . Raleigh, North Carolina. ISBN 978-0807850367 .
^ Cahoon, Ben. "Mayors of U.S. Cities M - W" . Worlds Statesmen. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
^ McCrady, Edward; A'Court Ashe, Samuel (1892). Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century . 2 . Brant & Fuller, 1892. pp. 364–365. ISBN 978-1376644845 .
^ "Dod-Hinsdale House" . National Park Service. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
^ "History of Raleigh" . Raleigh. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
^ North Carolina State College Agriculture and Engineering . Edwards & Broughton. 1921.
^ Dorin-Black, Cathy (September 26, 2017). "Fred Barnett Wheeler: Alumnus, Soldier, Councilman, Mayor" . NC State University Libraries.
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