List of mayors of Orlando, Florida

Current mayor Buddy Dyer

List of Mayors of the City of Orlando. The city of Orlando, Florida, was incorporated in 1875. The first mayor, William Jackson Brack, took office in 1875. The Orlando mayor is officially a nonpartisan election.

The current mayor is Buddy Dyer, who was first elected in a special election in February 2003. Dyer was elected to his first full term in 2004, and has subsequently been re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2015.

List of mayors

Mayors of Orlando, Florida

Term in office	Mayor	Born	Died
1875 – 1877	William Jackson Brack	June 17, 1837	April 30, 1901
1877 – 1878	John Howard Allen	1845	unknown
1878 – 1879	Charles Henry Munger	August 25, 1845	unknown
1879 – 1880	Alex M. Hyer	1848	1933
1880 – 1881	Robert L. Summerlin	1853	1926
1881 – 1882	Charles Dennison Sweet	July 16, 1858	September 9, 1900
1882 – 1883	Cassius Aurelius Boone	February 2, 1850	December 11, 1917
1883 – 1885	John Letcher Bryan	December 27, 1848	December 23, 1898
1885 – 1887	Ephraim J. Reel	1833	1917
1887 – 1888	Foster Samuel Chipman	1829	unknown
1888 – 1891	Matthew Robinson Marks	October 29, 1834	August 1911
1891 – 1893	Willis Lucullus Palmer	December 13, 1854	October 30, 1912
1893 – 1893	Mahlon Gore	February 4, 1837	June 27, 1916
1896 – February 6, 1902	James B. Parramore	January 29, 1839	February 6, 1902
1902 – 1904	Clarence Everett Howard	September 7, 1858	May 2, 1930
1904 – 1906	Dr. James Horace Smith	October 20, 1852	June 20, 1931
1906 – 1907	Braxton Beacham	September 12, 1864	September 24, 1924
1907 – 1910	William Henry Jewell	February 26, 1840	January 2, 1912
1910 – 1913	William Hayden Reynolds	June 29, 1847	February 1, 1935
1913 – August 1, 1916	E. Frank Sperry	June 18, 1843	August 1, 1916
1916 – 1919	James LeRoy Giles (1st time)	June 16, 1863	May 3, 1946
1919 – 1924	Eugene Goodman Duckworth	April 29, 1875	November 6, 1959
1924 – 1925	James LeRoy Giles (2nd time)	(see above)
1925 – 1928	Latta M. Autrey	July 7, 1880	1930
1928 – 1931	James LeRoy Giles (3rd time)	(see above)
1931 – 1934	Samuel Yulee Way (1st time)	1869	March 20, 1956
1934 – 1937	Verner Wilson Estes	March 7, 1886	1956
1937 – 1940	Samuel Yulee Way (2nd time)	(see above)
1940 – 1952	William Hamer "Billy" Beardall, Jr.	May 5, 1890	October 27, 1984
January 1, 1953 – November 1, 1956	J. Rolfe Davis	February 11, 1904	March 30, 1988
November 1, 1956 – January 29, 1967	Robert S. "Bob" Carr	July 13, 1899	January 29, 1967
March 15, 1967 – January 1, 1981	Carl T. Langford	July 23, 1918	July 9, 2011
January 1, 1981[1] – November 1, 1992	Willard D. "Bill" Frederick	July 6, 1934
November 1, 1992[2] – February 26, 2003[3]	Glenda Evans Hood	March 10, 1950
March 1, 2003 – March 11, 2005	John H. "Buddy" Dyer (1st time)	August 7, 1958
March 12, 2005 – April 20, 2005	Ernest Page (interim)	ca. 1942
April 20, 2005 – Present	John H. "Buddy" Dyer (2nd time)	(see above)

• Ernest Page was appointed interim mayor for about six weeks in March-April 2005 while Buddy Dyer was under investigation for election fraud stemming from the 2004 election. The charges against Dyer were dismissed, and Dyer was reinstated as mayor on April 20, 2005.

See also

• Timeline of Orlando, Florida

Notes

Works cited

• World Statesman - Mayors of U.S. Cities M-W (Orlando)
• Our Campaigns - Orlando mayor history

References

1. Orlando Mayor
2. "Several Women Blazed A Trail For Glenda Hood". The Orlando Sentinel. September 21, 1992. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
3. "Hood Will Be Mayor Till Vote In February". The Orlando Sentinel. December 24, 2002. Retrieved November 4, 2015.

External links

• Orlando Remembered: City Hall – Describes the city's exhibit of memorabilia from past mayors.