List of mayors of Charleston, West Virginia

Mayor of Charleston, West Virginia
Incumbent Amy Shuler Goodwin since 2025
Formation	1861
First holder	Jacob Goshorn (1861)
Website	Mayor's Office

This is a list of mayors of Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America.

Mayors

• Jacob Goshorn, 1861 (elected but did not serve) ^{[1] [2]}
• John A. Truslow, circa 1865 ^[2]
• John Williams, 1865-1868
• George Ritter, 1868–1869 ^[2]
• John W. Wingfield, 1870 ^[2]
• H. Clay Dickinson, 1871 (died in office) ^[2]
• John P. Hale, 1871 ^[3]
• John Williams, 1872 ^[2]
• C. P. Snyder, 1873 ^[2]
• John D. White, 1874 ^[2]
• John C. Ruby, 1875–1876 ^{[2] [4]}
• C. J. Botkin, 1877–1881 ^[2]
• R. R. Delaney, 1881–1882 ^[2]
• John D. Baines, 1883–1884 ^[2]
• James Hall Huling, 1885–1886 ^[2]
• Joseph L. Fry, 1887–1890 ^[2]
• James B. Pemberton, 1891–1892 ^{[2] [3]}
• E. W. Staunton, 1893–1894 ^[2]
• J. A. deGruyter, 1895–1898 ^[2]
• W. Herman Smith, 1899–1900 (died in office) ^[2]
• John B. Floyd, 1900–1901
• George S. Morgan, 1901–1904 ^[2]
• C. E. Rudesill, 1904-1905
• John A. Jarrett 1905-1907
• James A. Holley 1907-11
• R. Logan Walker 1918-19
• Grant P. Hall 1919-23
• William W. Wertz 1923-31
• R. P. DeVan, 1932-1934
• D. Boone Dawson, 1935–1947
• R. Carl Andrews, 1947–1950
• John T. Copenhaver, 1951–1959
• John A. Shanklin, 1959–1967
• Elmer H. Dodson, 1967–1971
• John G. Hutchinson, 1971–1980
• Joe F. Smith, 1980–1983
• James E. "Mike" Roark, 1983–1987
• Charles R. "Chuck" Gardner, 1987–1991
• Kent Strange Hall, 1991–1995
• G. Kemp Melton, 1995–1999
• Jay Goldman, 1999–2003 ^[5]
• Danny Jones, 2003–2019 ^[6]
• Amy Shuler Goodwin, 2019–present

See also

• List of people from Charleston, West Virginia

References

1. W. S. Laidley (1911), History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia, and Representative Citizens, Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., pp. 166–169, OCLC   3645365, archived from the original on March 7, 2017, retrieved August 25, 2017– via Internet Archive, List of mayors
2. Chamber of Commerce 1901, p. 31. sfn error: no target: CITEREFChamber_of_Commerce1901 (help)
3. "West Virginia Encyclopedia". Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. Archived from the original on March 19, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
4. Thomas Condit Miller; Hu Maxwell (1913). West Virginia and Its People. Vol. 3. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014.
5. "Mayor's Office". Cityofcharleston.org. Archived from the original on December 16, 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
6. "Office of the Mayor". Cityofcharleston.org. Archived from the original on August 10, 2003.