List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana

This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Mayor	From	To	Party	Notes
Angus McNeill	1836	1839	None	President of Shreve Town Co.
John Octavius Sewall	1839	1840	Whig	First Elected Mayor
William Walton George, M.D.	1840	1840	Dem.
Samuel W. Briggs	1841	1841	None
William Walton George, M.D.	1842	1843	Dem.
John N. Howell	1844	1844	Dem.
Joseph Clinton Beall	1845	1845	Dem.
Lawrence Pike Crain	1846	1847	Dem.
Robert Nathaniel Wood	1847	1847	Whig/Know	Died in Mexico
John Morgan Landrum	1848	1848	Dem.	Elected to Congress
Rev. John Bryce	1849	1849	Dem.
Robert W. Cooke	1850	1850	Dem.
Joseph Clinton Beall	1851	1853	Dem.
John Wallace Jones	1854	1857	Dem.
Jonas Robeson	1858	1858	Dem.
John W. Pennall	1859	1859	Dem.	Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861
Jonas Robeson	1860	1861	Dem.
Joseph Clinton Beall	1862	1863	Dem.
John Gooch, Samuel Wells	1864	1865	Dem.	Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells.
Alexander Boarman	1866	1867	Rep.	Appointed by Union.
Lewis S. Markham	1867	1867	Dem.	Served only one month.
Martin Tally	1867	1868	Rep.	Appointed during reconstruction by Union.
Jerome B. Gilmore	1869	1871	Rep.	Appointed during reconstruction by Union.
William Rabun Shivers	1871	1871	Dem.	Was killed before he was able to serve term.
Moses Hodge Crowell	1871	1872	Rep.	Appointed by the Union.
Joseph Taylor, M.D.	1872	1873	Dem.	Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist)
Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh	1872	1873	Rep.	Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor.
Samuel J. Ward	1874	1874	Dem.	Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales.
W. Nick Murphy	1875	1878	Rep./Dem.	Switched from Republican to Democrat.
Andrew Currie	1878	1889	Dem.	Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland.
Edward B. Herndon	1890	1890	Dem.	Elected to fill unfinished term.
Richard Tucker Vinson	1891	1895	Dem.
Reuben Neil McKellar	1896	1900	Dem.	Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens
Benjamin Holzman	1900	1902	Dem.	Born in Germany.
Andrew C. Querbes, Sr.	1902	1906	Dem.	Born in New Orleans.
Ernest Ralph Berstein	1906	1908	Dem.
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.	1908	1910	Dem.
John H. Eastman	1910	1914	Dem.	First mayor under city commission government
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.	1914	1916	Dem.
Robert Hodges Ward	1916	1918	Dem.	Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward.
John McWilliams Ford	1918	1922	Dem.
Lee Emmett Thomas	1922	1930	Dem.	Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916
J. G. Palmer	1930	1932	Dem.	Louisiana State Judge.
John McWilliams Ford	1932	1932	Dem.
George W. Hardy, Jr.	1932	1934	Dem.	Louisiana State Judge.
Samuel S. Caldwell	1934	1946	Dem.
Clyde E. Fant	1946	1954	Dem.
James C. Gardner	1954	1958	Dem.	Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954
Clyde E. Fant	1958	1970	Dem.	Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor.
L. Calhoun Allen, Jr.	1970	1978	Dem.
William T. Hanna, Jr.	1978	1982	Dem.
John Brennan Hussey	1982	1990	Dem.
Hazel Beard	1990	1994	Rep.	First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era
Robert W. "Bo" Williams	1994	1998	Rep.
Keith Hightower	1998	2006	Dem.
Cedric B. Glover	2006	2014	Dem.	First African-American mayor
Ollie Tyler	2014	incumbent	Dem.	First African-American female mayor

Notes

Cedric Glover was elected in 2006 over a Republican opponent, Jerry Jones, and reelected in 2010 over another Republican opponent, city council member Bryan Wooley.

Ollie Tyler became the first African-American female mayor in 2014, when she defeated Independent Victoria Provenza and African-American State Representative Patrick C. Williams.

External links

• Mayor of Shreveport Page
• Shreveport Mayoral Trivia