This is a list of mayors of Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America.
Name | Term start | Term end |
---|---|---|
George Miller [1] | 1806 | 1807 |
Moses Chapline [1] | 1807 | 1809 |
William Irwin [1] | 1809 | 1810 |
Noah Linsly [1] | 1810 | 1814 |
William Irwin [2] | March 1814 | September 1814 |
George Knox [2] | 1815 | 1816 |
William Irwin [2] | 1816 | 1817 |
Peter Yarnall [2] | 1817 | 1819 |
Moses Chapline [2] | 1819 | 1824 |
Z. Jacobs [2] | 1824 | 1828 |
Samuel Sprigg [2] | March 1828 | September 1828 |
John McLure [2] | September 1828 | March 1830 |
Moses W. Chapline [2] | 1830 | 1834 |
Z. Jacobs [2] | 1834 | 1836 |
Moses W. Chapline [3] [4] | May 1836 | January 1840 |
George Dulty [3] | January 1840 | January 1846 |
Moses C. Good | January 1846 | January 1847 |
William W. Shriver | January 1847 | June 1848 |
Sobieski Brady [5] | June 1848 | January 1850 |
Alfred Caldwell [6] | January 1850 | January 1852 |
Morgan Nelson | January 1852 | January 1853 |
Sobieski Brady | January 1853 | January 1855 |
]James Paull | January 1855 | January 1856 |
Alfred Caldwell | January 1856 | January 1858 |
James Tanner | January 1858 | January 1859 |
Andrew Wilson | January 1859 | January 1861 |
Andrew J. Sweeney [7] | January 1861 | January 1863 |
George Baird | January 1863 | January 1864 |
Henry Crangle | January 1864 | January 1865 |
Andrew J. Sweeney | January 1865 | January 1868 |
Sobieski Brady | January 1868 | January 1869 |
Samuel McClellan Jr. | January 1869 | January 1871 |
George W. Jeffers | January 1871 | January 1875 |
Andrew J. Sweeney | January 1875 | January 1881 |
Alfred Egerter | January 1881 | January 1883 |
Jeremiah A. Miller | January 1883 | January 1885 |
Jacob W. Grubb [5] | January 1885 | January 1887 |
Charles W. Seabright | January 1887 | January 1893 |
Benjamin F. Caldwell | January 1893 | January 1897 |
John R. Butts | January 1897 | January 1899 |
Andrew T. Sweeney | January 1899 | 1905 [8] |
Charles C. Schmidt [8] [6] | 1905 | August 1912 (died in office) |
William O. Alexander (acting mayor) [8] | August 1912 | 1912 |
Harvey L. Kirk [8] [6] | October 1912 | 1917 |
Clifford M. Vester [8] | 1917 | 1918 |
Thomas F. Thoner [8] | 1919 | 1925 |
William J. Steen [8] | 1925 | 1928 |
Thomas Y. Beckett [8] | 1929 | 1932 |
Gordon P. Fought [8] | 1932 | 1934 |
Charles F. Schultze [8] | May 1935 (died in office) | 1938 |
John J. Mathison [8] | May 1938 | 1943 |
Russell S. Goodwin [8] | 1943 | 1947 |
Carl G. Bachmann [8] | 1947 | 1951 |
Charles J. Schuck [8] | 1951 | 1955 |
Jack R. Adams [8] | 1955 | 1959 |
John J. Gast [8] | 1959 | 1963 |
Charles L. Ihlenfeld [7] | 1964 | 1967 |
James L. Rogers [8] | 1967 | 1971 |
James J. Haranzo [8] | 1971 | 1975 |
John E. Fahey [8] | 1975 | 1979 |
Cuyler E. Ewing [8] | 1979 | 1981 |
William H. Muegge [8] | 1981 | 1984 |
John W. Lipphardt [8] | 1984 | 1985 |
Stella C. Koerner [8] | 1985 | 1988 |
Thomas J. Baller [8] | 1988 | 1992 |
John W. Lipphardt [8] | 1992 | 2000 |
Nicholas A. Sparachane [9] | 2000 | 2008 [10] |
Andy McKenzie [11] | 2008 | 2016 |
Glenn Elliott [12] | 2016 | |
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