Mayor of Topeka, Kansas
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since January 4, 2022 | |
| Inaugural holder | Loring Farnsworth |
| Formation | 19th Century |
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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 |
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| 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
References
- ^ "150 Years of Topeka Mayors". City of Topeka. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.
- ^ King, James L., ed. (1905). History of Shawnee County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens. Richmond & Arnold.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Places - Cities and towns - Topeka", kansasmemory.org, Kansas Historical Society, retrieved November 24, 2024
- ^ "Thirty years in Topeka: a historical sketch - Frye William Giles - Google Books". Retrieved August 26, 2012 – via Google Books.