List of mayors of Macon, Georgia

This is a list of mayors and intendents of the city of Macon, Georgia since its incorporation in 1823.

List

Intendents

• David S. Booth (1824)
• James H. Rogers (1825)
• Edward Dorr Tracy (1826)
• Washington Poe (1827)
• Robert Birdsong (1828)
• Joseph Washburn (1829)
• W. J. Dannelly (1830)
• Isaac R. Rowland (1831)
• Levi Eckley (1832)

Mayors

• Isaac G. Seymour (1833–1834) elected by Board of Aldermen
• Robert Augustus Beall (1835) 1st popularly elected
• Isaac G. Seymour (1836–1839)
• Washington Poe (1840–1841)
• Frederick Sims (1842)
• John J. Gresham (1843)
• James A. Nisbet (1844–1845)
• Isaac Holmes (1846)
• John J. Gresham (1847)
• George M. Logan (1848–1850)
• James H. R. Washington (1851)
• E. L. Strohecker (1852–1854)
• Benjamin Franklin Ross (1855–1856)
• A. B. Adams (1857)
• Ovid G. Sparks (1858–1860) resigned September 18, 1860
• Methvin S. Thompson (1860–1862) elected September 25, 1860
• Ovid G. Sparks (1863)
• Stephen Collins (1864–1866)
• George S. Obear (1867–1870)
• William A. Huff (1871–1879)
• Felix Corput (1880–1883)
• Sylvester B. Price (1884–1894)
• Henry Horne (1895–1896)
• Sylvester B. Price (1897)
• Bridges Smith (1898–1907)
• Alexander Lawton Miller (1908–1909)
• John T. Moore (mayor) (1910–1913)
• Bridges Smith (1914–1917)
• Glover Glendenning Toole (1918–1921)
• Luther Williams (1922–1925)
• Wallace Miller (1926–1927)
• Luther Williams (1928–1929)
• Glover Glendenning Toole (1930–1933)
• Herbert Ivan Smart (1934–1937)
• Charles L. Bowden (1938–1947)
• Lewis Burgess Wilson (1948–1953)
• Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1954–1959)
• Edgar H. Wilson (1960–1963)
• Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1964–1967)
• Ronnie Thompson (1968–1975) 1st elected Republican mayor
• Buck Melton (1976–1979)
• George Israel (1980–1987) 2nd elected Republican mayor
• Lee Robinson (1988–1991)
• Tommy Olmstead (1992–1995)
• David Carter (1995)
• Jim Marshall (1996–2000)
• C. Jack Ellis (2000–2007) 1st African American mayor
• Robert Reichert (since 2007)

External links

• Macon Mayor's office

Mayors of Macon, Georgia Booth Rogers Tracy Poe Birdsong Washburn Dannelly Rowland Eckley Seymour Beall Seymour Poe Sims Gresham Nisbet Holmes Gresham Logan Washington Strohecker Ross Adams Sparks Thompson Sparks Collins Obear Huff Corput Price Horne Price Smith Miller Moore Smith Toole Williams Miller Williams Toole Smart Bowden Wilson Merritt Wilson Merritt Thompson Melton Israel Robinson Olmstead Carter Marshall Ellis Reichert