List of mayors of Petersburg, Virginia

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Petersburg, Virginia, USA.

Interior view of Petersburg City Hall building in Virginia, US, in 1991

• John Banister, 1784–1785 ^[1]
• Christopher McConnico, 1785–1786 ^[1]
• John Shore, 1786–1787 ^[1]
• Robert Bolling, 1787–1788, 1795–1796 ^[1]
• Thomas G. Peachey, 1788–1789, 1794–1795 ^[1]
• Simon Frazer, 1789–1790 ^[1]
• Joseph Westmore, 1790–1791 ^[1]
• Richard Bate, 1791–1792 ^[1]
• Joseph Weisiger, 1792–1793 ^[1]
• William Prentis, 1793–1794, 1797–1798, 1801–1802, 1805–1806 ^[1]
• Elias Parker, 1796–1797 ^[1]
• J. Le Messurier, 1798–1799 ^[1]
• William Harrison, 1799–1800 ^[1]
• David Maitland, 1800–1801 ^[1]
• George Pegram, 1802–1803 ^[1]
• Robert Birchett, 1803–1804 ^[1]
• Paul Nash, 1804–1805 ^[1]
• John McRae, 1806–1807 ^[1]
• Alexander Brown, 1807–1808 ^[1]
• James Byrne, 1808–1809 ^[1]
• Archibald Baugh, 1809–1810 ^[1]
• Joel Hammond, 1810–1811 ^[1]
• William Moore, 1811–1812 ^[1]
• Nathaniel Friend, 1812–1813 ^[1]
• William Bowden, 1813–1814 ^[1]
• Edward Pegram Jr, 1814–1815 ^[1]
• George H. Jones, 1815–1816 ^[1]
• John Hinton, 1816–1817, 1821–1822 ^[1]
• Samuel Turner, 1817–1818 ^[1]
• Edmund Pescud, 1818–1819 ^[1]
• John H. Brown, 1819–1820, 1823–1824 ^[1]
• Thomas Wallace, 1820–1821, 1831–1832 ^[1]
• John Stith, 1822–1823 ^[1]
• Lewis Mabry, 1824–1835, 1827–1828 ^[1]
• Jabez Smith, 1825–1826 ^[1]
• Samuel Winfree, 1826–1827, 1832–1833 ^[1]
• Joseph Bragg, 1828–1829 ^[1]
• Patrick Durkin, 1829–1830 ^[1]
• Charles F. Osborne, 1830–1831 ^[1]
• David H. Branch, 1833–1834 ^[1]
• George W. Harrison, 1834–1835, 1837–1838 ^[1]
• John D. Tanner, 1835–1836 ^[1]
• James McFarland Jr, 1836–1837 ^[1]
• Daniel Lyon, 1838–1839 ^[1]
• Robert B. Bolling, 1839–1840 ^[1]
• Stephen G. Wells, 1840–1841 ^[1]
• William Pannill, 1841–1842 ^[1]
• Thomas Branch, 1842–1843 ^[1]
• John Pollard, 1843–1844 ^[1]
• John H. Patterson, 1844–1845 ^[1]
• James B. Cogbill, 1845–1846 ^[1]
• Joseph E. Cox, 1846–1847 ^[1]
• Francis E. Rives, 1847–1848 ^[1]
• J. M. B. Steward, 1848–1849 ^[1]
• Charles Corling, 1849–1850 ^[1]
• Andrew Kevan, 1850–1851 ^[1]
• John Dodson, 1851–1854 ^[1]
• W. W. Townes, 1854–1865 ^[1]
• Charles Fenton Collier, 1865–1867, c. 1888 – 1898 ^[1]
• Rush Burgess, 1867–1868 ^[1]
• W. B. Newberry, 1868–1869 ^[1]
• W. G. Pearse, 1868–1869 ^[1]
• J. P. Wiliamson, 1869–1870 ^[1]
• Franklin Wood, 1870–1874 ^[1]
• W. F. C. Gregory, 1874–1876 ^[1]
• William E. Cameron, 1876–1881 ^[1]
• F.H. Archer, 1881–1882 ^[1]
• T. J. Jarratt, c. 1882 – 1887 ^[1]
• John M. Pleasants, c. 1899 – 1902
• Samuel W. Zimmer, ca.1924 [2]
• J. Gordon Bohannan, ca.1927 ^[3]
• William Hodges Mann Jr. 1946–1950 ^[4]
• Churchill G. Dunn, c. 1952 – 1956 ^[4]
• Rosalyn Dance, 1992–2004
• Brian Moore, c. 2011 – 2013 ^[5]
• W. Howard Myers, ca.2016 ^[6]
• Samuel Parham, 2017–present ^[7]

See also

• History of Petersburg, Virginia

References

1. Edward Pollock (1885), "List of the mayors of Petersburg 1784 to 1885", Historical and industrial guide to Petersburg, Virginia, Petersburg, VA, p. 67 – via HathiTrust
2. Hill Directory Co.'s (incorporated) Petersburg, Va. city directory 1924 – via HathiTrust
3. Hill's Petersburg (Virginia) city directory 1927 – via HathiTrust
4. Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Mayors and Postmasters of Petersburg, Virginia", Political Graveyard, retrieved July 17, 2024
5. "Mayor", petersburgva.gov, archived from the original on May 17, 2013 – via Wayback Machine
6. "City Council", petersburgva.gov, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 – via Wayback Machine
7. "Samuel Parham", petersburgva.gov, retrieved July 17, 2024– via Wayback Machine