List of mayors of Champaign, Illinois

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Champaign, Illinois, United States.

Mayor of Champaign
Incumbent Deborah Frank Feinen since 2015
Formation	1860
First holder	E. T. McCann

Municipal building in Champaign, Illinois (photo 2005)

• E. T. McCann, 1860 ^[1]
• D. Gardner, 1861 ^[1]
• J. S. Wright, 1862-1863 ^[1]
• E. L. Sweet, 1864-1865 ^[1]
• C. E. Larned, 1866-1868 ^[1]
• C. B. Smith, 1869-1870 ^[1]
• Levi Dodson, 1872 ^[1]
• J. Dickerson, 1873-1875, 1879 ^[1]
• Sandford Richards, 1874 ^[1]
• Henry Trevett, 1876-1879 ^[1]
• B. C. Beach, 1880, 1885-1886 ^[1]
• L. S. Wilcox, 1881-1882, 1887-1888 ^{[1] [2]}
• J. B. McKinley, 1883 ^[1]
• W. A. Day, 1883-1884 ^[1]
• P. W. Woody, 1889-1890 ^[1]
• J. B. Harris, 1891-1894 ^[1]
• E. E. Chester, 1895-1896 ^[1]
• J. R. Scott, 1897-1898 ^[1]
• C. J. Sabin, 1899-1900 ^[1]
• Charles J. Mullikin, 1901-1902, c.1931-1936 ^{[1] [3] [4]}
• E. S. Swigart, 1903-1904, 1916-1917 ^[1]
• Shields A. Blain, 1905-1908 ^[1]
• S. C. Tucker, 1909, 1917-1922 ^{[1] [4]}
• William Coughlin, 1911-1913 ^[1]
• O. B. Dobbins, 1914-1915 ^[1]
• George J. Babb, c.1923-1927, 1944-1951 ^[4]
• George B. Franks, c.1928-1930 ^[4]
• James D. Flynn, c.1935-1941 ^{[2] [4]}
• M. Flynn, c.1942-1943 ^[4]
• Virgil F. Lafferty, c.1951-1958 ^[4]
• Emerson Dexter, c.1959-1966 ^{[2] [4]}
• V. Wikoff, c.1967-1974 ^[4]
• W. Bland, c.1975-1978 ^[4]
• Joan Severns, 1979-1983 ^[5]
• Robert Dodd, c.1983-1986 ^{[4] [2]}
• Dannel McCollum, 1987-1991 ^[2]
• Gerald Schweighart, c.1999-2011 ^{[4] [6]}
• Don Gerard, 2011-2015 ^[4]
• Deborah Frank Feinen, 2015-present ^[5]

See also

• Champaign City Building
• Champaign history

References

1. J.R. Stewart, ed. (1918), Standard History of Champaign County Illinois, vol. 1, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, p. 373 – via HathiTrust, Mayors of Champaign
2. Dannel McCollum, "Historical Review of Champaign's City Buildings Over The Years", champaignil.gov, Illinois: City of Champaign, retrieved May 18, 2025
3. Daily Illini, September 1, 1931 – via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library, Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
4. Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Champaign, Illinois", Political Graveyard, retrieved May 18, 2025
5. "Deb Frank Feinen Defeats Champaign Mayor Don Gerard". Illinois Public Media. April 7, 2015. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021 – via Wayback Machine.
6. "Mayor & City Council", www.ci.champaign.il.us, archived from the original on March 3, 2001 – via Wayback Machine