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Mayor of Topeka, Kansas

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Mayor of Topeka
Incumbent
Mike Padilla
since January 4, 2022
Inaugural holderLoring Farnsworth
Formation19th Century
Websitewww.topeka.org/mayor

List of Mayors

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The following is a list of mayors of the American city of Topeka, Kansas.[1][2]

Image Mayor Years of service
Loring Farnsworth[3] 1858–1859
Lorenzo Dow March – June 2, 1859[4]
Cyrus K. Holliday[3] 1859–1860
Hiram W. Farnsworth 1860–1861
Harris F. Otis 1861–1862
Noah W. Cox 1862–1863
Joseph F. Cummings 1863–1864
Samuel H. Fletcher 1864–1865
William W. Ross 1865–1866
Ross Burns 1866–1867
Cyrus K. Holliday 1867–1868
Orrin T. Welch 1868–1869
Cyrus K. Holliday 1869–1870
Josiah B. McAfee[3] 1870–1871
Orrin T. Welch 1871–1873
Henry Bartling 1873–1875
Thomas J. Anderson 1875–1877
Milton H. Case 1877–1881
Joseph C. Wilson 1881–1883
Michael Heery 1883
Bradford Miller 1883–1885
Roswell L. Cofran 1885–1887
David C. Metsker 1887–1889
Roswell L. Cofran 1889–1893
Daniel C. Jones 1893
Thomas W. Harrison 1893–1895
Charles A. Fellows 1895–1899
Charles J. Drew 1899–1901
James W. F. Hughes[3] 1901–1902
Albert Parker 1902–1903
William S. Bergundthal 1903–1905
William H. Davis 1905–1907
William Green 1907–1910
Julius B. Billard[3] 1910–1913
Roswell L. Cofran 1913–1915
Jay E. House 1915–1919
Herbert J. Corwine 1919–1923
Earl Akers 1923–1925
James E. Thomas[3] 1925–1927
William O. Rigby 1927–1931
Omar B. Ketchum[3] 1931–1935
Herbert G. Barrett 1935–1939
John F. Scott 1939–1941
Frank J. Warren 1941–1951
W. Kenneth Wilke 1951–1953
George C. Schnellbacher 1953–1959
Ed J. Camp 1959–1963
Hal W. Gerlach 1963–1965
Chuck Wright 1965–1969
Gene C. Martin 1969–1971
William B. McCormick 1971–1983
Douglas S. Wright 1983–1989
Butch Felker 1989–1997
Joan Wagnon 1997–2001
Butch Felker 2001–2003
Duane Pomeroy 2003–2004
James McClinton 2004–2005
Bill Bunten 2005–2013
Larry Wolgast 2013–2018
Michelle De La Isla 2018–2022
Mike Padilla 2022–present

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "150 Years of Topeka Mayors". City of Topeka. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.
  2. ^ King, James L., ed. (1905). History of Shawnee County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens. Richmond & Arnold.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Places - Cities and towns - Topeka", kansasmemory.org, Kansas Historical Society, retrieved November 24, 2024
  4. ^ "Thirty years in Topeka: a historical sketch - Frye William Giles - Google Books". Retrieved August 26, 2012 – via Google Books.