List of mayors of Fayetteville, Arkansas

Molly Rawn was elected mayor of Fayetteville in 2024.

The mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas is an elected city leader. Fayetteville is the second largest city in Arkansas and has a population of around 94,000.

In 1868, during the American Civil War, Mayor M. LaRue Harrison was forcibly removed from office. For the remainder of the war, Fayetteville was under military control and did not have a mayor.

In 1992, the city's government transitioned from a city board to a mayor–council structure. ^[1]

Pre-Civil War (1841–1868)

No.	Name	Term	Refs.
1	P. Vinson Rhea	1841
2	J. W. Walker	1859
3	Stephen Bedford	1860
4	M. LaRue Harrison	1868	[2] [3]

City board (1868–1992)

No.	Name	Term	Refs.
5	E. I. Stirman	1869	[4] [5] [6]
6	T. Murray Campbell	1871
7	J. R. Pettigrew	1872
8	George A. Grace	1873
9	Robert J. Wilson	1874
10	A. M. Wilson	1876
11	A. S. Vandeventer	1877
12	J. H. Van Hoose	1880	[7]
13	W. C. Jackson	1881
14	C. W. Walker	1883
15	W. C. Jackson	1885
16	R. J. Wilson
17	O. C. Gray	1886
18	E. B. Wall	1887
19	J. H. Van Hoose	1888
20	F. M. Goar	1889
21	W. S. Pollard	1891–1895	[8]
22	Jack Walker	1897
23	J. T. Eason	1901
24	C. A. Mullholland	1905
25	W. H. Rollins	1909–1913
26	Guy Phillips	1913–1914
27	Tom Raylor	1914–1917
28	Allan Wilson	1921–1929
29	T. S. Tribble	1929–1935
30	A. D. McAllister	1935–1941
31	George Vaughn	1941–1944
32	G. T. Sanders	1944–1949
33	Powell M. Rhea	1949–1953
34	Roy A. Scott	1954–1957
35	J. Austin Parrish	1958–1959
36	Guy E. Brown	1960–1965
37	Don Trumbo	1966–1968
38	Garland Melton Jr.	1969–1970
39	Joe Fred Starr	1971–1972	[9]
40	Russell Purdy	1973–1974
41	Marion Orton	1975–1976
42	Ernest Lancaster	1977–1978
43	David Malone	1978–1979
44	John Todd	1980–1981
45	Paul Robert Noland	1982–1986	[10]
46	Marilyn Johnson	1986–1987	[11]
47	William V. Martin	1987–1990
48	Fred S. Vorsanger	1991–1992	[12]

Mayor–council (1992–present)

No.	Name	Term	Party affiliation		Refs.
49	Fred Hanna	1992–2000			[13] [14]
50	Dan Coody	January 1, 2000–December 31, 2008
51	Lioneld Jordan	January 1, 2009–December 31, 2024			[15]
52	Molly Rawn	January 1, 2025–present		Democratic

See also

• List of mayors of places in Arkansas

References

1. "Fayetteville Mayors". City of Fayetteville, Arkansas.
2. "Marcus LaRue Harrison (1830–1890)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
3. "Sword Presented to Marcus LaRue Harrison". National Museum of American History.
4. "Community and Conflict » Archive » Erasmus Stirman".
5. "Erasmus Stirman". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
6. "Erasmus Stirman letter to Rebecca Stirman - May 12, 1862". Missouri Digital Heritage.
7. "Obituary of James Hayden Van Hoose". Fayetteville Manuscripts.
8. "Timeline – 1890s". Fayetteville History.
9. "Joe Fred Starr, Businessman, Car Collector, Dies". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. March 28, 2013.
10. "Obituary for Paul Robert Noland, Fayetteville, AR". Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
11. Drake, Richard (February 12, 2012). "FOIA: Oh, Marilyn Heifner, you know better than this".
12. "Obituary for Fred S. Vorsanger, Fayetteville, AR". Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
13. "Northwest Arkansas Mall celebrates experiences with time capsule unveiling in Fayetteville". Arkansas Online. March 18, 2022.
14. "A mayor and pioneer". The Arkansas Traveler.
15. "Office of the Mayor". City of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Retrieved May 27, 2023.