List of mayors of Dodge City, Kansas

The following is a list of mayors of Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.

City hall building in Dodge City, Kansas, around 1913

List of mayors

• P.L. Beatty, 1875 ^[1]
• James H. Kelley, 1877-1881 ^[2]
• Alonzo B. Webster, 1881-1883 ^[3]
• Lawrence Edward "Larry" Deger, c.1883 ^[3]
• Robert Marr Wright, c.1885-1886 ^{[2] [1]}
• Adolph B. Gluck, c.1891 ^[4]
• George Merritt Hoover, c.1904, 1911 ^{[5] [6]}
• Ham B. Bell, c.1906, 1913 ^{[3] [2]}
• Albert B. Reeves, c.1908 ^[7]
• William T. Hale, c.1915-1916 ^[8]
• W.O. Thompson, c.1928
• E.G. Gingrich, ca.1935 [9]
• C.L. Clinton, c.1952-1954 ^[10]
• Gordon R. Morgan, c.1955-1956 ^[10]
• Frank Mapel, c.1967 ^[11]
• Louis Sanchez, 1984 ^[12]
• Gerald Schmitt, c.1999 ^[13]
• E. Kent Smoll, c.2011-2014
• Joyce Warshaw, c.2015-2020 ^[14]
• Brian Delzeit, c.2021-2023
• Chuck Taylor, c.2024

See also

• Dodge City history
• Dodge City War, 1883

References

1. Weber, Brian (2010). Progressive municipal reform as reflected in Dodge City newspapers: The progressive agendas of Robert Wright, George Hoover, and Adolph Gluck (Master of Arts thesis). Kansas: Fort Hays State University.
2. Robert M. Wright (1913), Dodge City: The Cowboy Capital and The Great Southwest, Wichita Eagle Press – via HathiTrust
3. "Places - Cities and towns - Dodge City", kansasmemory.org, Kansas Historical Society , retrieved 2024-11-24
4. "Adolph Gluck, The Jewish Mayor Of Wild And Wooly Dodge City, Kansas", Western States Jewish History, vol. XXIX, no. 4, July 1997
5. Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, R.L. Polk & Co., 1904 – via HathiTrust
6. "George Merritt Hoover", fordcountyhistory.org, Dodge City, KS: Ford County Historical Society, retrieved 2024-11-24
7. Kansas State Gazetteer and Business Directory, R.L. Polk & Co., 1908 – via Internet Archive
8. William E. Connelley (1918), A standard history of Kansas and Kansans, vol. 4, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co. – via HathiTrust
9. Directory of city officials and index to Kansas cities, League of Kansas Municipalities, 1935 – via HathiTrust
10. Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Mayors and Postmasters of Dodge City, Kansas", Political Graveyard, retrieved 2024-11-24
11. Kansas Government Journal v.53, League of Kansas Municipalities, 1967, hdl:2027/mdp.39015084475378 – via HathiTrust
12. "Ford County Dust Bowl Oral History Project: Louis Sanchez", fordcountyhistory.org, Dodge City, KS: Ford County Historical Society, August 18, 1998
13. "Dodge City Commissioners", dodgecity.org, archived from the original on 1999-02-19 – via Wayback Machine
14. "Kansas mayor resigns after threats over backing mask mandate", cbsnews.com , December 16, 2020