List of mayors of Sacramento, California

This is a list of mayors of Sacramento, California. The Sacramento City Council met for the first time on August 1, 1849 and the citizens approved the city charter on October 13, 1849. The City Charter was recognized by the State of California on February 27, 1850 and Sacramento was incorporated on March 18, 1850.^[1]

Mayors of Sacramento, California

Year	Mayor	Notes and references
2008–Present	Kevin Johnson	First African-American mayor to serve in office.
2000–2008	Heather Fargo
1999–2000	Jimmie R. Yee	Served as an interim mayor.
1993–1999	Joe Serna, Jr.	Died in office.
1983–1992	Anne Rudin	First elected female mayor in Sacramento.
1982–1983	R. Burnett Miller
1975–1982	Phil Isenberg
1968–1975	Richard H. Marriott
1966–1967	Walter Christensen
1960–1965	James B. McKinney
1956–1959	Clarence L. Azevedo
1954–1955	H. H. Hendren
1954	W. A. Hicks	Resigned from office.
1952–1953	Leslie E. Wood
1950–1951	Bert E. Geisreiter[2]
1948–1949	Belle Cooledge	First female mayor to serve in office.
1946–1947	George L. Klumpp
1938–1945	Tom B. Monk
1936–1937	Arthur D. Ferguson
1934–1935	Thomas P. Scollan
1930–1933	C. H. S. Bidwell
1928–1929	R. E. Conley
1926–1927	A. E. Goddard
1921–1925	Albert Elkus	First mayor to be born within city boundaries
1920–1921	Charles A. Bliss
1919–1920	John Q. Brown
1917–1919	D. W. Carmichael
1915–1917	G. C. Simmons
1912–1915	M. J. Burke
1910–1912	M. R. Beard
1908–1909	Clinton F. White
1906–1907	M. R. Beard
1904–1905	W. J. Hassett
1900–1903	George H. Clark
1898–1899	William Land
1896–1897	C. H. Hubbard
1893–1895	B. U. Steinman
1889–1892	W. D. Comstock
1887–1888	Eugene J. Gregory
1881–1886	John Q. Brown
1878–1880	Jabez Turner
1872–1877	Christopher Green
1863–1871	Charles Heman Swift
1859–1862	W. Shattuck
1858	Henry Lambard Nichols
1857	Joseph Palmer Dyer
1856	Benjamin Barnard Redding
1855	James Lawrence English
1854	R. P. Johnson
1853	James Richmond Hardenberg
1852	C. I. Hutchinson
1851	James Richmond Hardenberg (1814-?)
1850	Horace Smith
1850	Hardin Bigelow
1849	Albert Maver Winn
1849	William S. Hamilton	First mayor of Sacramento, California. He was mayor for three weeks.

See also : Lists of incumbents

See also

• Timeline of Sacramento, California

References

1. "Center for Sacramento History". Cityofsacramento.org. 1972-09-04. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
2. "Nurseryman, Former Mayor Bert Geisreiter, 83, Dies". Sacramento Bee. June 20, 1987. Retrieved 2012-09-15. Bert E. Geisreiter, a former Sacramento mayor who first ran for election in 1947 as a last-minute candidate and ended up serving nine years on the City Council, died at home Friday following a long illness. He was 83. ...

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