List of mayors of Perryville, Missouri

The city of Perryville, Missouri, which is located in Missouri's 8th congressional district in southeastern Missouri, is the county seat and the largest city of Perry County, Missouri. The city was incorporated in 1831. ^[1]

List of Mayors

Perryville mayors since 1882. ^[2]

Mayor	Took office	Left office	Additional information
Charles A. Weber (1833-1906)	1880	1896	Druggist and apothecary, founder of a general store, county clerk. In 1861, he raised a company for the Missouri Militia and served as its captain. In 1862, he organized the 64th regiment of the Missouri Militia and was commissioned a major. In 1864, he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of the 64th regiment. In 1889, he was elected a probate judge. Judge Weber was born in Planena in the Kingdom of Prussia. His wife was also a native of the Kingdom of Hanover. [3]
Robert M. Wilson	1896	1900
Charles Edward Kiefner (1869–1942)	1900	c. 1903 [4]	U.S. Representative, 1925–1927; 1929–1931
Thomas E. Hudson	1904	1908
Henry Francis Weiss (1868-1940)	1908	1918	He died in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. His parents were born in Germany in the 1840s.
Dr. Louis W. Holtmann (1886-1918)	c. 1918	1918	Dentist. He died of pneumonia and influenza in Perryville in 1918 at the age of 33. [5]
Henry F. Weiss (1868-1940)	1919	1922	(Previously served as mayor, 1908–1918)
Leo A. Herbst (1883-1969)	1922	c. 1923-1924
Phillip Louis Zoellner (1882-1964)	1923	1932
John Kiefner	1932	1942
John Francis Lottes, Jr. (1912-1994)	1942	1948
Edwin J. Layton (1896-1992)	1948	1950
Clarence J. Hinni (1907-1989)	1950	1951
John Francis Lottes, Jr. (1912-1994)	1951	1952	(Previously served as mayor, 1942–1948.)
Clarence J. Hinni (1907-1989)	1952	1954	(Previously served as mayor, 1950–1951.)
Wallace Young	1954	1956
Austin G. Harter (1914-1998)	1956	1960	In 1964, he retired from the U.S. Army Reserve after 33 years. [6]
Carl O. Peterson (1912-1992)	1960	1964	Born in Renville, Minnesota. Former owner of the Perryville Cheese Company [7]
Wallace Gagnepain (1916-2005)	1964	1972
Paul L. Gibbar	1972	1978
Frank W. "Bill" Bergman	1978	1980
Larry H. Pryor (c. 1939-1993)	1980	1982	He was the owner and operator of the Park-Et Motel. He died in 1993 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis at age 54. [8]
Kim R. Moore	1982	1984
Robert J. Miget [9] [10] (1936-2007)	1984	2007	U.S. Army veteran who was employed at the Republic-Monitor newspaper, 1959–2001.
Debbie Gahan	2008		Perryville's first woman mayor. [11]
Ken Baer [1] (born c. 1946)			Former Navy Civil Engineer Corp Officer [12]

References

• Missouri Secretary of State official manuals

1. "Mayor: The City of Perryville, Missouri" . Retrieved November 6, 2014.
2. "Perryville mayor wall list" . Retrieved November 6, 2014.
3. "Welcome to Perry County, Missouri: Part of Genealogy Trails" . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
4. City hall information states that his term ended in 1904 while congress.gov states that his term ended in 1902 as he was a state representatives from 1902 until 1908.
5. "A Whole Lottes Dentists" . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
6. "Austin Harter, obituary". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. March 10, 1998.
7. "Carl O. Peterson obituary" . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
8. "Larry H. Pryor obituary" . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
9. Jim Grebing (ed.). Official Manual State of Missouri 1997-1998. p. 839.
10. Julius Johnson (ed.). Official Manual State of Missouri 1999-2000. p. 820.
11. "Perryville Mayor Debbie Gahan committed to progress" . Retrieved November 6, 2014.
12. "Perryville Mayor: Ken Baer" . Retrieved January 12, 2020.

Key

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) Know Nothing (KN) American Labor (AL) Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR) Anti-Administration (AA) Anti-Masonic (Anti-M) Conservative (Con) Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR) Democratic-Republican (DR) Farmer–Labor (FL) Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS) Fusion (Fus) Greenback (GB) Independence (IPM) Independent Democrat (ID) Independent Republican (IR) Jacksonian (J) Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L) National Union (NU) Nonpartisan League (NPL) Nullifier (N) Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O) Populist (Pop) Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh) Readjuster (Rea) Republican (R) Silver (Sv) Silver Republican (SvR) Socialist (Soc) Union (U) Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP) Whig (W) Independent (I) Nonpartisan (NP)