List of mayors of Rochester, Minnesota

Current Mayor Kim Norton in 2019

People who have served as mayor of Rochester, Minnesota.

Mayor	Term
Moses W. Fay	1858–1859
Frederick Augustus Olds	1859–1860
William D. Hurlbut [1]	1860–1861
John Clark	1861–1862
Lowell B. Bliss [1]	1862–1864, 1868–1869
Abram Ozmun	1864–1865
John V. Daniels [1]	1865–1866
Ozora P. Stearns	1866–1868
Daniel Heaney	1869–1870
Frederick Taft Olds	1870–1871
Orlen P. Whitcomb	1871–1872
George W. Van Dusen [1]	1872–1873
Dennis H. Williams [1]	1873–1875
Daniel A. Morrison [1]	1875–1879
Lyman E. Cowdery	1879–1880
Samuel Whitten	1880–1882, 1883–1885
Dr. William Worrall Mayo	1882–1883
Orson Sage Porter [1]	1885–1887, 1889–1890
Andrew Nelson	1887–1889
Delbert Darling [1]	1890–1892
Dr. Horace H. Witherstine	1892–1895, 1896–1897, 1902–1903
Dr. Wilson A. Allen [1]	1895–1896
Joseph H. Wagoner [1]	1897–1898
Burt Winslow Eaton	1898–1899
James Arthur Melone [1]	1899–1900
Dr. E. L. Sinclair	1900–1902
Archie C. Stevenson	1903–1905
Martin Heffron	1905–1907
Julius J. Reiter	1907–1909, 1917–1919, 1923–1925, 1931–1935
J. C. Thompson	1909–1911
William B. Richardson	1911–1917
C. D. Brown (Died in Office 12-22-1927)	1919–1923, 1927
John T. Lemmon	1925–1927, 1930–1931
Fred W. Haase	1928–1929
W. A. Moore	1935–1939
Paul Grassle	1939–1947
Claude H. McQuillan (Died in Office 11-16-1957)	1947–1951, 1953–1957
Glenn O. Amundsen	1951–1953
Adolph M. Bach	1957–1958
Alexander P. Smetka	1958–1969, 1973–1979
Dewey Day	1969–1973
Chuck Hazama	1979–1995
Chuck Canfield	1995–2003
Ardell Brede	2003–2019
Kim Norton	2019–present

References

1. Leonard, Joseph Alexander (1910). "History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: Together with Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers, Citizens, Families and Institutions".

• Mayors of Rochester, Minnesota. The Political Graveyard.
• Alexander P. Smetka Minnesota State University Alumni Association.
• STEARNS, Ozora Pierson infoplease.
• Obit of Paul Grassle Rochester Post Bulletin/rootsweb.
• Rear Platform Remarks in Minnesota and Wisconsin The Public Papers of Harry S. Truman.
• Born in a Storm Mayo Clinic
• Robert Olds of Windsor and Suffield, CT and his descendants Rootsweb/Dan W. Olds
• Olmsted County History The Minnesota GenWeb Project/Olmsted County Genealogy
• Rochester Police Department History City of Rochester, Minnesota
• The History Center of Olmsted County

Images of America Rochester, MN by Ted St. Mane