List of mayors of Rapid City, South Dakota

Rapid City, South Dakota was founded in 1876[1] and was run by a village board of trustees until 1882, when John Richard Brennan, a member of the board and cofounder of the city, was chosen as mayor.[2] Two months after the city was incorporated, Fred E. Stearns was elected mayor.[3] The first form of elected government was mayor–council with an elected strong mayor. From 1910 to 1922, a city commission government was used. Later that year, the system of government was changed to council–manager. Rapid City returned to a mayor–council government in 1957.[4] The Rapid City Council chose to extend the mayoral term to four years in 2015, but the change will not occur until 2019. There is no term limit.[5] The annual mayoral salary is $95,406.[6]

List

Name (term) Term Began Term End
John Richard Brennan 1882 1883
Fred E. Stearns 1883 1884
James Halley II 1884 1886
Andrew Jackson Simmons 1886 1887
John F. Schrader 1887 1888
David H. Clark 1888 1890
James Moses Woods 1890 1894
Chauncey Lynch Wood (1) 1894 1896
Valentine McGillycuddy 1896 1898
George B. Mansfield 1898 1899
Chauncey Lynch Wood (2) 1899 1900
Charles Wellington Brown 1900 1902
Ferdinand N. Emrick 1902 1908
Chauncey Lynch Wood (3) 1908 1910
Robert J. Jackson 1910 1912
Fred H. Rugg 1912 1914
William E. Robinson 1914 1918
John L. Burke 1919 1920
Claude E. Gray 1920 1922
Harry Wentzy 1922 1924
John Abram Boland 1924 1925
Charles Tittle 1925 1926
Arthur Lampert 1926 1927
Victor Jepson 1927 1928
Eugene Bangs 1928 1929
Theodore B. Werner 1929 1930
Winfield Morrill 1930 1931
Melville Babington 1931 1932
Fred Merritt 1933 1934
Charles Leroy Doherty 1934 1936
Norbert De Kerchove 1937 1938
Robert S. Hill 1938 1943
Therlo Burrington 1943 1944
Stanton Neil 1944 1946
Fred Dusek (1) 1946 1948
Earl Brockelsby 1948 1949
Isaac Chase 1949 1951
Augustus Haines 1951 1953
Montford Wasser 1953 1954
Harry R. Johnson 1954 1955
Don L'Esperance 1955 1956
Henry Jay Baker (1) 1956 1957
Fred Dusek (2) 1957 1961
Willis Raff 1961 1963
Phil Schroeder 1963 1965
Henry Jay Baker (2) 1965 1969
Jack Allmon 1969 1970
John Barnes 1970 1971
Donald V. Barnett 1971 1975
Arthur Lacroix 1975 1987
Keith Carlyle 1987 1991
Edward Ralph McLaughlin 1991 1997
Jim Shaw (1) 1997 2001
Jerry Munson 2001 2003
Jim Shaw (2) 2003 2007
Alan Hanks 2007 2011
Sam Kooiker 2011 2015
Steve Allender 2015 present
References:[7]

References

  1. Hasselstrom, Linda M. (1994). Roadside History of South Dakota. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company. p. 331. ISBN 0-87842-262-5.
  2. "John Richard Brennan". Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  3. "Fred E. Stearns". Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  4. "Types of City Governments and Home Rule (Rapid City)". Black Hills Knowledge Network. April 21, 2014.
  5. Holland, Jim (October 6, 2015). "Council approves longer mayoral, council terms". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  6. Lawrence, Tom (July 2, 2008). "‘There’s never been a better time to be in Rapid City’". Black Hills Pioneer. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  7. Rippentrop, Kay; Malone, Sandra. "Mayoral History of Rapid City". Black Hills Knowledge Network with mayoral biographiies from Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
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