List of mayors of Madison, Wisconsin

This is a list of mayors of Madison, Wisconsin . ^[1]

Village presidents

President	Tenure
Thomas W. Sutherland	1846
Alexander L. Collins	1847–1849
William N. Seymour (1808–1886)	1850
Simeon Mills	1851
Chauncey Abbott	1852
Horace A. Tenney	1853
Simeon Mills	1854
Peter Van Bergen (1809–1879)	1855

Mayors

Order	Mayor	Sworn In	Left Office
1	Jairus C. Fairchild	1856	1856
2	Augustus A. Bird	1857	1857
3	George Baldwin Smith	1858	1860
4	Levi Baker Vilas	1861	1861
5	William T. Leitch	1862	1864
6	Elisha W. Keyes	1865	1866
7	Alden Sprague Sanborn	1867	1868
8	David Atwood	1868	1868
9	Andrew Proudfit	1869	1870
10	James Barton Bowen	1871	1871
11	James L. Hill	1872	1872
12	Jared Comstock Gregory	1873	1873
13	Silas U. Pinney	1874	1875
14	John N. Jones (1817–1898)	1876	1876
15	Harlow S. Orton	1877	1877
16	George Baldwin Smith	1878	1878
17	John R. Baltzell	1879	1879
18	Philip L. Spooner, Jr.	1880	1880
19	James Conklin	1881	1883
20	Breese J. Stevens	1884	1884
21	Hiram N. Moulton	1885	1885
22	Elisha W. Keyes	1886	1886
23	James Conklin	1887	1887
24	Moses Ransom Doyon	1888	1889
25	Robert McKee Bashford	1890	1890
26	William H. Rogers	1891	1892
27	John H. Corscot	1893	1894
28	Jabe B. Alford	1895	1895
29	Albert A. Dye	1896	1896
30	Mathias J. Hoven	1897	1897
31	Charles Elbert Whelan	1898	1898
32	Mathias J. Hoven	1899	1900
33	Storm Bull	1901	1901
34	John W. Groves	1902	1903
35	William Dexter Curtis (D.)	1904	1905
36	Joseph C. Schubert (D.)	1906	1911
37	John B. Heim (D.)	1912	1913
38	Adolph H. Kayser	1914	1915
39	George C. Sayle (1864–1951)	1916	1919
40	Isaac Milo Kittleson	1920	1925
41	Albert G. Schmedeman	1926	1932
42	James R. Law, Jr.	1932	December 1943
43	Fred Halsey Kraege	December 1943	September 15, 1947 [a]
44	Leonard G. Howell (City Manager) (1894–1980)	September 15, 1947	July 31, 1950
45	George J. Forster	August 1, 1950	April 1955 [b]
—	Alfred W. Bareis	April 1955	1956 Interim
46	Ivan A. Nestingen (D.)	1956	1961
—	Harold E. Hanson	1961	1961 Interim
47	Henry Edward Reynolds (R.)	1961	1965
48	Otto Festge (D.) (1921–2007)	April 1965	April 1969
49	William Dyke (R.)	April 1969	April 17, 1973
50	Paul Soglin (D.)	April 17, 1973	April 17, 1979
51	Joel Skornicka (D.)	April 18, 1979	April 17, 1983
52	F. Joseph Sensenbrenner Jr. (D.)	April 17, 1983	April 18, 1989
53	Paul Soglin (D.)	April 18, 1989	April 15, 1997
54	Susan J. M. Bauman (D.)	April 15, 1997	April 22, 2003
55	Dave Cieslewicz (I.)	April 22, 2003	April 19, 2011
56	Paul Soglin (D.)	April 19, 2011	April 16, 2019
57	Satya Rhodes-Conway (D.)	April 16, 2019	present

1. In a November 1946 referendum, Madison switched to a City Manager form of government, effective after the following April election. On April 15th 1947 Kraege was appointed Acting City Manager ^[2] until the appointment of a permanent city manager. ^{[3] [4]}
2. Forster was appointed Acting City Manager after Howell resigned to become the city manager of Des Moines, Iowa. ^{[5] [6]} A November 1950 referendum returned Madison to a Mayor-Aldermanic form of government, and Forster was elected Mayor in the spring election and took office on April 17th 1951 ^[7]

See also

• Mayoral elections in Madison, Wisconsin

References

1. "HMI template".
2. Pyre, Russell (April 15, 1947). "Acting Manager Post Given to Kraege, 5-2". Wisconsin State Journal – via Newspapers.com.
3. Matheson, Helen (August 6, 1947). "Council Picks Howell for Manager of City". Wisconsin State Journal – via Newspapers.com.
4. "City Manager Ceremony Set for Monday". Wisconsin State Journal . September 11, 1947 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Pyre, Russel (June 21, 1950). "Forster Acting City Manager". Wisconsin State Journal – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Forster Is Briefed on City's Problems". Wisconsin State Journal . July 18, 1950 – via Newspapers.com.
7. Pyre, Russell (April 4, 1951). "Forster Elected Mayor by Over 3-1" – via Newspapers.com.