List of mayors of Lake Charles, Louisiana

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States.

Former city hall building in Lake Charles, Louisiana, built in 1911 (photo 2019)

• James W. Bryan, 1868-1871 ^[2]
• John A. Spence, 1871-1873 ^[2]
• A.H. Moss, 1873-1874 ^[2]
• William Meyers, 1874-1887 ^{[2] [3]}
• Adolph Meyer, 1887-1888 ^{[2] [4]}
• Alexander L. Reid, 1888-1892 ^{[2] [5]}
• Patrick Crowley, 1893-1899 ^{[2] [6]}
• James P. Geary, 1899-1900 ^[2]
• John H. Poe, 1901-1903 ^[2]
• Charles H. Winterhalter, 1903-1909 ^[2]
• C. Brent Richard, 1909-1913 ^[2]
• George L. Riling, 1913-1916 ^[2]
• Josh A. Trotti, 1917-1925 ^[2]
• Henry J. Geary, 1925-1929 ^[2]
• Leon Locke, 1929-1933 ^[2]
• J. A. Trotti, 1933-1936 ^[2]
• Jack H. Handley, 1936-1945 ^{[2] [7]}
• Thomas Cameron Price, 1945-1953 ^{[2] [8]}
• Sidney L. Gray, 1953-1961 ^[2]
• Alfred E. Roberts, 1961-1965 ^[2]
• James Sudduth, 1965-1974, 1989-1993 ^{[2] [9]}
• Sammie Bono, 1974 ^[2]
• William (Bill) E. Boyer, 1974-1981 ^[2]
• Paul Savoie, 1981-1985 ^[2]
• Edward S. Watson, 1985-1989 ^[2]
• Willie Landry Mount, 1993-1999 ^[2]
• Rodney Geyen , 1999-2000 ^[2]
• Randy Roach, 2000-2017 ^{[2] [10]}
• Nic Hunter, 2017–present ^{[2] [11]}

See also

• History of Lake Charles, Louisiana

References

1. "Lake Charles City Hall (Old)", National Historic Places Register, Louisiana, retrieved April 24, 2025
2. "History of Lake Charles", cityoflakecharles.com, retrieved April 24, 2025, Mayors of Lake Charles
3. Lake Charles Echo, April 19, 1877 – via Library of Congress' Chronicling America, Wm. Meyer
4. William Henry Perrin, ed. (1891), Southwest Louisiana, biographical and historical, New Orleans: Gulf Publishing Co. – via HathiTrust
5. Lake Charles Echo, June 29, 1888 – via Chronicling America
6. Directory of the City of Lake Charles (PDF), 1895 – via Calcasieu Parish Public Library
7. "Mayors of cities, towns and villages", State of Louisiana roster of officials, State of Louisiana, 1937 – via HathiTrust
8. "Mayors of cities, towns and villages", State of Louisiana roster of officials, State of Louisiana, 1949 – via HathiTrust
9. "Municipal officials", State of Louisiana roster of officials, State of Louisiana, 1973 – via HathiTrust
10. "Mayor", cityoflakecharles.com, archived from the original on August 3, 2001 – via Wayback Machine
11. "About the mayor", cityoflakecharles.com, retrieved April 24, 2025

Further reading

• "List of Lake Charles mayors", kplctv.com , September 22, 2016, archived from the original on September 24, 2016 – via Wayback Machine