Mayor of South Bend | |
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Style | The Honorable, Mr. Mayor (informal) |
Term length | Four-year term, renewable |
Formation | May 22, 1865 |
Salary | $117,780.24 (2020) [1] [2] |
This is a list of mayors of South Bend, Indiana, beginning with South Bend's incorporation as a city on May 22, 1865. [3] [4] William G. George served as the city's first mayor from 1865 to 1868. Joe Kernan was mayor of South Bend from 1988 to 1997 and went on to serve as governor of Indiana. South Bend's 11th mayor was Schuyler Colfax III, son of the 17th Vice President of the United States Schuyler Colfax, and was the youngest mayor of South Bend. Every mayor since 1972 has been a Democrat and the incumbent is James Mueller, having taken office on January 1, 2020.
# | Portrait | Name [4] | Term start | Term end | Terms | ||
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1 | William G. George | 1865 | 1868 | 1 | Republican | ||
2 | Louis Humphreys (1816–1880) | 1868 | 1872 | 2 | Republican | ||
3 | William Miller (1821-1901) | 1873 | 1876 | 2 | Republican | ||
4 | Alexander N. Thomas | 1877 | 1878 | 1 | Republican | ||
5 | Lucius G. Tong (1842–1908) | 1878 | 1880 | 1 | Republican | ||
6 | Levi J. Ham (1805–1887) | 1880 | 1884 | 2 | Democratic | ||
7 | George W. Loughman (1846–1909) | 1884 | 1888 | 2 | Republican | ||
8 | William H. Longley | 1888 | 1892 | 2 | Democratic | ||
9 | David R. Leeper (1832–1900) | 1892 | 1894 | 1 | Democratic | ||
10 | D. B. J. Schafer | 1894 | 1898 | 2 | Republican | ||
11 | Schuyler Colfax III (1870–1925) | 1898 | 1902 | 2 | Republican | ||
12 | Edward J. Fogarty | 1902 | 1910 | 4 | Democratic | ||
13 | Charles L. Goetz | 1910 | 1914 | 2 | Democratic | ||
14 | Fred W. Keller(1893–1955) | 1914 | 1918 | 2 | Independent | ||
15 | Franklin R. Carson(1861–1929) | January 1918 | 1922 | 2 | Republican | ||
16 | Eli F. Seebirt(1879–1955) | 1922 | 1926 | 2 | Republican | ||
17 | Chester R. Montgomery | 1926 | 1930 | Democratic | |||
18 | William Riley Hinkle(1874–1964) | 1930 | 1935 | Democratic | |||
19 | George W. Freyermuth (1868–1958) | 1935 | 1938 | Republican | |||
20 | Jesse I. Pavey | 1938 | 1945 | Democratic | |||
21 | F. Kenneth Dempsey(1906–1973) | 1945 | 1947 | Democratic | |||
22 | George A. Schock | 1947 | 1952 | Democratic | |||
23 | John Alden Scott (1916–1986) | 1952 | 1956 | 1 | Republican | ||
24 | Edward F. Voorde [5] (1910–1960) | January 1, 1956 | September 2, 1960 [note 1] | 1¼ | Democratic | ||
25 | Frank J. Bruggner(1891–1972) | September 1960 | 1964 | ¾ | Democratic | ||
26 | Lloyd M. Allen(1919–1989) | 1964 | 1972 | 2 | Republican | ||
27 | Jerry Miller | 1972 | 1975 | 1 | Democratic | ||
28 | Peter J. Nemeth (born 1942) | 1976 | 1979 | 1 | Democratic | ||
29 | Roger O. Parent (born 1938) | January 1980 | January 3, 1988 | 2 | Democratic | ||
30 | Joe E. Kernan (1946–2020) | January 3, 1988 | January 3, 1997 | 2¼ | Democratic | ||
31 | Steve Luecke (born 1964) | January 3, 1997 | January 1, 2012 | 3¾ | Democratic | ||
32 | Pete Buttigieg (born 1982) | January 1, 2012 | January 1, 2020 | 2 | Democratic | ||
33 | James Mueller (born 1982) | January 1, 2020 | Incumbent | Democratic |
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