This is a list of mayors of New Albany, Indiana .
# | Name | Term start | Term end | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | P.M. Dorsey | 1839 | 1840 | Whig | |
2 | Dr. Shepard Whitman | 1840 | 1843 | Whig | |
3 | Silas Overturf (1812–1886; aged 73) | 1843 | 1844 | Whig | |
4 | James Collins | 1844 | 1844 | Whig | |
5 | William Clark | 1844 | 1847 | Whig | |
6 | William M. Weir (1st) | 1847 | 1849 | Whig | |
7 | John R. Franklin | 1849 | 1850 | Democratic | |
8 | William M. Weir (2nd) | 1850 | 1852 | Whig | |
9 | Alexander S. Burnett Sr. (1st) | 1852 | 1853 | Democratic | |
10 | Joseph A. Moffatt | 1853 | 1855 | Know-Nothing | |
11 | Johnathan D. Kelso | 1853 | 1856 | Republican | |
12 | Frankie Warren | 1856 | 1859 | None | |
13 | Alexander S. Burnett Sr. (2nd) | 1859 | 1863 | Democratic | |
14 | Dumar M. Hooper | 1863 | 1865 | Republican | |
15 | William L. Sanderson | 1865 | 1868 [1] | Democratic | |
16 | William Hart | 1868 | 1871 | Democratic | |
17 | Thomas Kunkle | 1871 | 1874 [1] | Democratic | |
18 | William B. Richardson | 1874 | 1877 | Democratic | |
19 | S. Milburn | 1877 | 1879 | Democratic | |
20 | Bela C. Kent (1821–1904; aged 82) | 1879 | 1883 | Republican | |
21 | John J. Richards | 1883 | 1889 | Republican | |
22 | Morris McDonald | 1889 | 1892 | Republican | |
23 | William A. Broecker | 1892 | 1894 | Democratic | |
24 | Thomas W. Armstrong | 1894 | 1898 | Republican | |
25 | Edward Crumbo (1840–1905; aged 64) | 1898 | 1902 | Democratic | |
26 | Frank L. Shrader (1861–1940; aged 78) | 1902 | 1904 | Republican | |
27 | William V. Grose (1840–1923; aged 83) | 1904 | August 30, 1906 [2] | Democratic | |
28 | Jacob Best | 1907 | 1911 | Republican | |
29 | Newton Green (1st) | 1912 | 1915 | Democratic | |
30 | Robert W. Morris (1858–1949; aged 90) | 1916 | 1927 | Republican | |
31 | Newton Green (2nd) | 1928 | 1931 | Democratic | |
32 | Charles B. McLinn (1871–1945; aged 74) | 1932 | 1935 | Republican | |
33 | Jacob G. Hauswald (1869–?; aged ?) | 1936 | 1939 | Democratic | |
34 | Noble F. Mitchell | 1940 | 1942 [1] | Republican | |
35 | Robert C. Brooks | 1942 | 1943 | Republican | |
36 | Raymond L. Jaegers | 1943 | September 5, 1946 [1] | Republican | |
– | Edmund K. Scott (1883–1963; aged 79) | September 1946 [3] | September 1947 | None | |
37 | J. Irvin Streepy (1918–1984; aged 65) | September 1947 | 1948 | Republican | |
38 | C. Pralle Erni (1895–1985; aged 89–90) | 1948 | 1963 | Democratic | |
39 | Garnett Inman (1918–1993; aged 75) | 1964 | 1971 | Republican | |
40 | Warren V. Nash | 1971 | 1975 | Democratic | |
41 | Robert L. Real (1st) | 1975 | 1983 | Republican | |
42 | Charles Hunter | 1984 | 1987 | Democratic | |
43 | Robert L. Real (2nd) | 1987 | 1991 | Republican | |
44 | Douglas B. England (1st) (born in 1944; age 80) | 1992 | 1999 | Democratic | |
45 | Regina Overton | 2000 | 2003 | Republican | |
46 | James E. Garner Sr. | 2004 | December 31, 2007 | Democratic | |
47 | Douglas B. England (2nd) | January 1, 2008 | December 31, 2011 | Democratic | |
48 | Jeff M. Gahan (born in 1962; age 61) | January 1, 2012 | Present | Democratic |
Source: Encyclopedia of Louisville. [4]
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