List of mayors of Milwaukee
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This is a list of mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following the election of Socialist Emil Seidel as mayor of Milwaukee in 1910, Wisconsin legislators passed a bill in 1912 to declare most local offices across the state as officially non-partisan.[1]
List
| No. | Portrait | Mayor | Party | Sworn in | Left office | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Solomon Juneau (1793–1856) |
Democrat | 1846 | 1846 | |
| 2 |  |
Horatio Wells (1808–1858) |
Democrat | 1847 | 1847 | |
| 3 |  |
Byron Kilbourn (1801–1870) |
Democrat | 1848 | 1848 | |
| 4 |  |
Don A. J. Upham (1809–1877) |
Democrat | 1849 | 1850 | |
| 5 |  |
George H. Walker (1811–1866) |
Democrat | 1851 | 1851 | |
| 6 |  |
Hans Crocker (1815–1889) |
Democrat | 1852 | 1852 | |
| 7 | |
George H. Walker (1811–1866) |
Democrat | 1853 | 1853 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
| 8 | |
Byron Kilbourn (1801–1870) |
Democrat | 1854 | 1854 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
| 9 |  |
James B. Cross (1819–1876) |
Democrat | 1855 | 1857 | |
| 10 |  |
William A. Prentiss (1799–1892) |
Republican | 1858 | 1859 | |
| 11 |  |
Herman L. Page (1818–1873) |
Democrat | 1859 | 1859 | |
| 12 | .jpg) |
William Pitt Lynde (1817–1885) |
Democrat | 1860 | 1860 | |
| 13 |  |
James S. Brown (1824–1878) |
Democrat | 1861 | 1861 | Elected without opposition. Did not run for re-election. |
| 14 |  |
Horace Chase (1810–1886) |
Democrat | 1862 | 1862 | |
| 15 |  |
Edward O'Neill (1820–1890) |
Democrat | 1863 | 1863 | |
| 16 |  |
Abner Kirby (1818–1893) |
Democrat | 1864 | 1864 | |
| 17 |  |
John J. Tallmadge (1818–1873) |
Democrat | 1865 | 1866 | |
| 18 | |
Edward O'Neill (1820–1890) |
Democrat | 1867 | 1870 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
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Joseph Phillips (1825–1906) |
Democrat | 1870 | 1871 | |
| 20 |  |
Harrison Ludington (1812–1891) |
Republican | 1871 | 1872 | |
| 21 |  |
David G. Hooker (1830–1888) |
Democrat | 1872 | 1873 | |
| 22 | |
Harrison Ludington (1812–1891) |
Republican | 1873 | 1876 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
| 23 |  |
Ammi R. R. Butler (1821–1901) |
Democrat | 1876 | 1878 | |
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John Black (1830–1899) |
Democrat | 1878 | 1880 | |
| 25 |  |
Thomas H. Brown (1839–1908) |
Republican | 1880 | 1882 | |
| 26 |  |
John M. Stowell (1824–1907) |
Democrat | 1882 | 1884 | |
| 27 |  |
Emil Wallber (1841–1923) |
Republican | 1884 | 1888 | |
| 28 | |
Thomas H. Brown (1839–1908) |
Republican | 1888 | 1890 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
| 29 |  |
George W. Peck (1840–1916) |
Democrat | 1890 | November 11, 1890 | Resigned to become Governor of Wisconsin |
| 30 |  |
Peter J. Somers (1850–1924) |
Democrat | December 6, 1890 | June 5, 1893 | Resigned after being elected to the House of Representatives |
| – |  |
Henry Hase (1847–1929) |
June 5, 1893 | July 1, 1893 | Acting Mayor | |
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John C. Koch (1841–1907) |
Republican | 1893 | 1896 | |
| 32 |  |
William C. Rauschenberger (1855–1918) |
Republican | 1896 | 1898 | |
| 33 |  |
David S. Rose (1856–1932) |
Democrat | 1898 | 1906 | |
| 34 | _in_1918.jpg) |
Sherburn M. Becker (1876–1949) |
Republican | 1906 | 1908 | |
| 35 | |
David S. Rose (1856–1932) |
Democrat | 1908 | 1910 | His second, nonconsecutive term |
| 36 |  |
Emil Seidel (1864–1947) |
Socialist | 1910 | 1912 | |
| 37 |  |
Gerhard A. Bading (1870–1946) |
Republican-Democrat Fusion | 1912 | 1916 | |
| 38 |  |
Daniel Hoan (1881–1961) |
Socialist | 1916 | April 16, 1940 | |
| 39 |  |
Carl Zeidler (1908–1942) |
Democrat | April 16, 1940 | April 8, 1942 | Resigned to fight in World War II, in which he was killed |
| 40 | _portrait_(01721).jpg) |
John Bohn (1872–1955) |
Nonpartisan | April 8, 1942 | April 20, 1948 | Interim mayor until being officially elected in 1944 |
| 41 |  |
Frank Zeidler (1912–2006) |
Socialist | April 20, 1948 | April 19, 1960 | |
| 42 |  |
Henry Maier (1918–1994) |
Democrat | April 19, 1960 | April 19, 1988 | |
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John Norquist (born 1949) |
Democrat | April 18, 1988 | January 1, 2004 | Resigned to head the Congress for the New Urbanism |
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Marvin Pratt (born 1944) |
Democrat | January 1, 2004 | April 20, 2004 | Acting mayor, first African American mayor of Milwaukee | |
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Tom Barrett (born 1953) |
Democrat | April 20, 2004 | December 22, 2021 | Resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg |
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Cavalier Johnson (born 1986) |
Democrat | December 22, 2021 | present | First elected African American mayor of Milwaukee |