This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Mayor | From | To | Party | Notes | |
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1836 | 1839 | None | President of Shreve Town Co. | ||
1839 | 1840 | First Elected Mayor | |||
William Walton George, M.D. | 1840 | 1840 | |||
1841 | 1841 | None | |||
William Walton George, M.D. | 1842 | 1843 | |||
1844 | 1844 | ||||
1845 | 1845 | ||||
1846 | 1847 | ||||
1847 | 1847 | Died in Mexico | |||
1848 | 1848 | Elected to Congress in 1859 | |||
1849 | 1849 | ||||
1850 | 1850 | ||||
1851 | 1853 | ||||
1854 | 1857 | ||||
1858 | 1858 | ||||
1859 | 1859 | Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 | |||
1860 | 1861 | ||||
1862 | 1863 | ||||
1864 | 1865 | Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells. | |||
1866 | 1867 | Appointed by Union. | |||
1867 | 1867 | Served only one month. | |||
1867 | 1868 | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. | |||
1869 | 1871 | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. | |||
1871 | 1871 | Was killed before he was able to serve term. | |||
1871 | 1872 | Appointed by the Union. | |||
Joseph Taylor, M.D. | 1872 | 1873 | Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist) | ||
1872 | 1873 | Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. | |||
1874 | 1874 | Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales. | |||
1875 | 1878 | Switched from Republican to Democrat. | |||
1878 | 1889 | Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland. | |||
1890 | 1890 | Elected to fill unfinished term. | |||
1891 | 1895 | ||||
Reuben Neil McKellar | 1896 | 1900 | Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens | ||
1900 | 1902 | Born in Germany. | |||
1902 | 1906 | Born in New Orleans. | |||
1906 | 1908 | ||||
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1908 | 1910 | |||
1910 | 1914 | First mayor under city commission government | |||
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1914 | 1916 | |||
1916 | 1918 | Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward. | |||
1918 | 1922 | ||||
1922 | 1930 | Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916 | |||
1930 | 1932 | Louisiana State Judge. | |||
1932 | 1932 | ||||
1932 | 1934 | Louisiana State Judge. | |||
1934 | 1946 | ||||
1946 | 1954 | ||||
1954 | 1958 | Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954 | |||
1958 | 1970 | Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor. | |||
1970 | 1978 | ||||
1978 | 1982 | ||||
John Brennan Hussey | 1982 | 1990 | |||
1990 | 1994 | First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era | |||
1994 | 1998 | ||||
1998 | 2006 | ||||
2006 | 2014 | First African-American mayor | |||
Ollie Tyler | 2014 | 2018 | First African-American female mayor | ||
2018 | 2022 | ||||
2022 | Incumbent |