Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida

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Mayor of Tallahassee
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Incumbent
John E. Dailey
since November 19, 2018
StyleThe Honorable
Term length4 years
Inaugural holderCharles Haire
Formation1826
Salary$80,289
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The Mayor of Tallahassee is head of the executive branch of the government of Tallahassee, Florida.

For part of the city's history the office of mayor was a rotating position chosen among city commissioners.[1] Tallahassee switched to the direct election of its mayors in 1997.

List[]

Florida Territory[]

  • 1826 [2] was elected Intendant
  • 1827 David Ochiltree, moved to Florida from Fayetteville, North Carolina.[3] He also served as a justice of the peace.[4] Ochiltree died in 1834 at his residence on Rocky Comfort Creek (Florida). He was a colonel and was a member elect of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida for Gadsden County when he died.[5]
  • 1828-1829 John Y. Gary
  • 1830 Leslie A. Thompson
  • 1831
  • 1832-1833 Leslie A. Thompson
  • 1834 , a pioneer settler sent by his father to an area by Tampa Bay. He was dispossessed of his land for the establishment of Fort Brooke.[6] A case on behalf of his heirs went to the Supreme Court.[citation needed]
  • 1835
  • 1836
  • 1837
  • 1838
  • 1839
  • 1840 Leslie A. Thompson
  • 1841–1844 Francis W. Eppes

Statehood[]

  • 1845 James A. Berthelot, he also served in the General Assembly[7] and campaigned for another office on a no tax anti bond platform advertised on a poster.[8] He was a mason and part of the
  • 1846 , was also a state comptroller. Owned the [9]
  • 1847 James Kirksey
  • 1848
  • 1849
  • 1850-1851 D. P. Hogue (also David P. Hogue or David Porter Hogue, a lawyer[10] who served as Attorney General in Florida.[11]
  • 1852 David S. Walker
  • 1853
  • 1854-1855
  • 1856-1857 Francis W. Eppes
  • 1858-1860 D. P. Hogue

Civil War era and Reconstruction[]

  • 1861-1865 , he was appointed a trustee of the West Florida Seminary
  • 1866 Francis W. Eppes, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, returned to office
  • 1867-1868 D. P. Hogue
  • 1869-1870 Thaddeus Preston Tatum, was a druggist and served in the Battle of Natural Bridge. lived September 27, 1835 - July 4, 1873 and is buried in the Old City Cemetery.[12]
  • 1871 , a Conservative newspaper editor[13] of the Floridian & Journal
  • 1872-1874
  • 1875 David S. Walker, Jr.
  • 1876 Samuel Walker

Post-Reconstruction[]

  • 1877 (also known as J. T. Bernard and Jesse Talbot Bernard), first Democratic mayor after Reconstruction, which ended the year he was elected.
  • 1878-1879
  • 1880 Henry Bernreuter, born in Columbus, Georgia to German immigrants, he moved as a child with his family to Florida. He was a Confederate veteran who later served as sheriff and police chief.[14][15]
  • 1881
  • 1882
  • 1883
  • 1884-1885
  • 1886 George W. Walker (Tallahassee, FL mayor)
  • 1887 A. J. Fish
  • 1888-1889 R. B. Gorman, served in the Confederate Army and was postmaster in Tallahassee.[16][17] As mayor, he signed on to a letter from the merchants of Tallahassee to the U.S. Army's Chief of Engineers calling for the St. Marks River to be made navigable to promote trade.[18] In 1889 he reported on negotiations with a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company for a water works system.[19]
  • 1890-1894 Richard B. Carpenter, a shopkeeper. Later went into bankruptcy and had a legal case for exemption given individuals declaring bankruptcy, even though the firm was established as a separate entity. Decided on appeal in his favor.[20]
  • 1895-1896 Jesse Talbot Bernard, a teacher and judge who travelled around Florida to hear cases. Served in the Confederate Army. He kept a diary.[21]
  • 1897
  • 1898-1902 R. B. Gorman, return to office of mayor

20th century to WWII[]

Samuel A. Wahnish, the first Jewish American mayor of Tallahassee
  • 1903-1904 [22]
  • 1905 ,[23] he also served as a legislator.[24]
  • 1906
  • 1907 , he also served as Chief Clerk of the state's Comptroller Office.[25]
  • 1908
  • 1909 , the Florida State Archives have a photo of the family home[26] as well as a photo of Winthrop, age 3.[27] Florida State University has a photo of him in what appears to be a military uniform ca. 1918[28] as well as some of his business documents in a collection of his family's papers.[29] His family owned the Barrow Hill Plantation and a house at 610 North Magnolia, which he lived in with his wife for years.
  • 1910-1917
  • 1918
  • 1919-1921 , played on the 1904 Florida State College football team and scored a touchdown in the state championship game against Stetson.
  • 1922-1923
  • 1924-1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
  • 1928-1929
  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932-1933
  • 1934
  • 1935
  • 1936 [30] (H. Jack Yaeger)
  • 1937 (Leonard A. Wesson, lived at 503 McDaniel)
  • 1938
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1943
  • 1944
  • 1945

Post-World War II[]

James R. Ford, the first African American mayor of Tallahassee
Joan Heggen, the first female mayor of Tallahassee (1973)
Dorothy Inman-Crews, the first female African American mayor of Tallahassee (1986)
  • 1946 , he and his son were involved in the oil distribution business.[31]
  • 1947
  • 1948
  • 1949-1950 Robert C. Parker disambig needed
  • 1951 William H. Cates
  • 1952
  • 1953
  • 1954
  • 1954
  • 1955-1956 J. T. Williams disambig needed
  • 1956 , a return to office
  • 1956-1957
  • 1957
  • 1958
  • 1959
  • 1960 George S. Taft disambig needed
  • 1961
  • 1962
  • 1963 (Samuel)
  • 1964
  • 1965 George S. Taft
  • 1966 , longest-serving city commissioner in history of Tallahassee. Eventually lost to the first African American elected as commissioner. His son drowned in a hunting accident. Was a religion professor at Florida State University and helped found religious organizations in Tallahassee.[32]
  • 1967
  • 1968 [33] He also served as a City Commissioner in Tallahassee[34] His wife was a schoolteacher.[35] As a commissioner he voted to reopen the city's pools in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968.[33]
  • 1969
  • 1970 , founder and president of building company Everhart Construction Company[36]
  • 1971 , return to office
  • 1972 James R. Ford, first African-American mayor
  • 1973 Joan Heggen, first female mayor
  • 1974 Russell R. Bevis
  • 1974 Earl Yancy
  • 1975 Johnny Jones
  • 1976 James R. Ford
  • 1977 Ben W. Thompson
  • 1978 , was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army and graduated from Florida State University with a business. He was a software developer and businessman. He died March 26, 2004.
  • 1979 Sheldon E. Hilaman, also served as a City Commissioner. Went by Shad. Hillaman Golf Course is named for him.[37]
  • 1980 Richard P. Wilson
  • 1981 , also served as a city commissioner and multiple terms in the Florida legislature[38]
  • 1982 James R. Ford[39]
  • 1983 Carol Bellamy
  • 1984 Kent Spriggs, a Civil Rights lawyer who also edited a book about Civil Rights leaders in the deep south. Appeared on C-Span while mayor discussing his duties.[40]
  • 1985
  • 1986 Jack L. McLean Jr., second African-American mayor
  • 1987
  • 1988 Frank Visconti
  • 1989 , first female African-American mayor
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992 Bob Hightower[41]
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995 Scott Maddox
  • 1996 [42]
  • 1997–2003 Scott Maddox, first directly-elected mayor[43]
  • 2003–2014 John Marks, longest-serving mayor in the city's history
  • 2014–2018 Andrew Gillum, ran for governor in 2018 but lost narrowly to Ron DeSantis[44]
  • 2018–present John E. Dailey

See also[]

  • Timeline of Tallahassee, Florida

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Mayoral-candidate-raises-the-question-of-a-position-overhaul--458071993.html
  2. ^ "Tallahassee, Leon County". Viva Florida. Tallahassee: Florida League of Cities. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  3. ^ "d.o. elected intendant in Tallahassee, fla. 1827". Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Burgess, Louis Alexander (1 January 1973). Virginia soldiers of 1776: compiled from documents on file in the Virginia Land Office; together with material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other reliable sources. Genealogical Pub. Co. ISBN 9780806305295 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Floridian and Advocate (Tallahassee, Florida), Dec. 27, 1834, p. 3: Obituary
  6. ^ Burnett, Gene M. (1 June 1996). Florida's Past: People and Events That Shaped the State. Pineapple Press Inc. ISBN 9781561641178 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the ... General Assembly of the State of Florida, at Its ... Session". 7 December 2018. p. 3.
  8. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Campaign Poster for James A. Berthelot, James M. Gilchrist, and James H. Gibson". Florida Memory.
  9. ^ "Towle House - Florida Historical Markers". Waymarking.com.
  10. ^ Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Florida" – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Court, Florida Supreme (10 December 2018). "Florida Reports" – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Portrait of Thaddeus Preston Tatum - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  13. ^ "Notes on Reconstruction in Tallahassee and Leon County, 1866-1876". The Florida Historical Society Quarterly. 5 (3): 153–158. 1927. JSTOR 30150750.
  14. ^ "Henry Bernreuter, Memorial article by friend". The Weekly True Democrat.
  15. ^ "BERNREUTER, Henry". Florida Memory.
  16. ^ "R B Gorman obit 17 April 1918 - Newspapers.com". Tallahassee Democrat.
  17. ^ House, Florida Legislature (8 December 1881). "Journal ..." pp. 2–27.
  18. ^ "Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army". U.S. Government Printing Office. 8 December 1889 – via Google Books.
  19. ^ "The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer". McGraw Publishing Company. 8 December 1889.
  20. ^ "Mayor r b carpenter bankrupt - Newspapers.com". Tampa Bay Times.
  21. ^ Phillips, Rebecca; Bernard, Jesse Talbot (1939). "A Diary of Jesse Talbot Bernard". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 18 (2): 115–126. JSTOR 30145327.
  22. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Tallahassee Junior Museum officials". Florida Memory. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  23. ^ History of Florida, Past and Present: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. 1923.
  24. ^ "Search Results". Florida Memory.
  25. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Portrait of William M. McIntosh Jr. standing by the Capitol - Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  26. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Winthrop family home at 610 N. Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  27. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Francis B. Winthrop at age three". Florida Memory.
  28. ^ "Francis B. Winthrop - fsu.digital.flvc.org". fsu.digital.flvc.org.
  29. ^ "Winthrop Family Papers, 1592-1970 - FSU Special Collections & Archives". fsuarchon.fcla.edu.
  30. ^ Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.). "Mayors and Postmasters of Tallahassee, Florida". Political Graveyard. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  31. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Fred S. Winterle and son's Gulf oil distribution trucks". Florida Memory.
  32. ^ "Cates Ave. named for former city commissioner". Tallahassee Democrat.
  33. ^ Jump up to: a b "Letter: Was it Wade or Berkowitz who reopened city pools?". Tallahassee Democrat.
  34. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "New City Commissioner Gene Berkowitz with his wife in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
  35. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Gene Berkowitz reading to class in Tallahassee". Florida Memory.
  36. ^ Butcher, Lee (10 December 1976). Florida's power structure: who's part of it and why. Trend Pub. ISBN 9780882510699 – via Google Books.
  37. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Men on the course at the Winewood Golf Club in Tallahassee, Florida". Florida Memory.
  38. ^ 2006 obituary in the Tallahassee Democrat
  39. ^ [1][dead link]
  40. ^ "Kent Spriggs - C-SPAN.org". C-span.org.
  41. ^ "Robert S. Hightower". hightowerlaw.com. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  42. ^ "Bethel:". Tallahassee Democrat. March 4, 1996.
  43. ^ "City Officials". City of Tallahassee. Archived from the original on June 5, 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  44. ^ https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/09/09/i-cried-everyday-former-tallahassee-mayor-andrew-gillum-to-discuss-controversial-incident-on-tamron-hall/
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