List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana
This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. MayorFromToPartyNotes Angus McNeill18361839NonePresident of Shreve Town Co.

List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana

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Table Section Text: This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana. MayorFromToPartyNotes Angus McNeill18361839NonePresident of Shreve Town Co.

Mayor	From	To	Party	Notes

Angus McNeill	1836	1839	None	President of Shreve Town Co.

John Octavius Sewall	1839	1840	Whig	First Elected Mayor

William Walton George, M.D.	1840	1840	Democratic

Samuel W. Briggs	1841	1841	None

William Walton George, M.D.	1842	1843	Democratic

John N. Howell	1844	1844	Democratic

Joseph Clinton Beall	1845	1845	Democratic

Lawrence Pike Crain	1846	1847	Democratic

Robert Nathaniel Wood	1847	1847	Whig/Know Nothing	Died in Mexico

John Morgan Landrum	1848	1848	Democratic	Elected to Congress

Rev. John Bryce	1849	1849	Democratic

Robert W. Cooke	1850	1850	Democratic

Joseph Clinton Beall	1851	1853	Democratic

John Wallace Jones	1854	1857	Democratic

Jonas Robeson	1858	1858	Democratic

John W. Pennall	1859	1859	Democratic	Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861

Jonas Robeson	1860	1861	Democratic

Joseph Clinton Beall	1862	1863	Democratic

John Gooch, Samuel Wells	1864	1865	Democratic	Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells.

Alexander Boarman	1866	1867	Republican.	Appointed by Union.

Lewis S. Markham	1867	1867	Dem.	Served only one month.

Martin Tally	1867	1868	Republican	Appointed during reconstruction by Union.

Jerome B. Gilmore	1869	1871	Republican	Appointed during reconstruction by Union.

William Rabun Shivers	1871	1871	Dem.	Was killed before he was able to serve term.

Moses Hodge Crowell	1871	1872	Republican	Appointed by the Union.

Joseph Taylor, M.D.	1872	1873	Dem.	Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist)

Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh	1872	1873	Republican	Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor.

Samuel J. Ward	1874	1874	Democratic	Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales.

W. Nick Murphy	1875	1878	Republican/Democratic	Switched from Republican to Democrat.

Andrew Currie	1878	1889	Democratic	Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland.

Edward B. Herndon	1890	1890	Democratic	Elected to fill unfinished term.

Richard Tucker Vinson	1891	1895	Democratic

Reuben Neil McKellar	1896	1900	Democratic	Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens

Benjamin Holzman	1900	1902	Democratic	Born in Germany.

Andrew C. Querbes, Sr.	1902	1906	Democratic	Born in New Orleans.

Ernest Ralph Berstein	1906	1908	Democratic

Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.	1908	1910	Democratic

John H. Eastman	1910	1914	Democratic	First mayor under city commission government

Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.	1914	1916	Democratic

Robert Hodges Ward	1916	1918	Democratic	Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward.

John McWilliams Ford	1918	1922	Democratic

Lee Emmett Thomas	1922	1930	Democratic	Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916

J. G. Palmer	1930	1932	Democratic	Louisiana State Judge.

John McWilliams Ford	1932	1932	Democratic

George W. Hardy, Jr.	1932	1934	Democratic	Louisiana State Judge.

Samuel S. Caldwell	1934	1946	Democratic

Clyde E. Fant	1946	1954	Democratic

James C. Gardner	1954	1958	Democratic	Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954

Clyde E. Fant	1958	1970	Democratic	Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor.

L. Calhoun Allen, Jr.	1970	1978	Democratic

William T. Hanna, Jr.	1978	1982	Democratic

John Brennan Hussey	1982	1990	Democratic

Hazel Beard	1990	1994	Republican	First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era

Robert W. "Bo" Williams	1994	1998	Republican

Keith Hightower	1998	2006	Democratic

Cedric B. Glover	2006	2014	Democratic	First African-American mayor

Ollie Tyler	2014	2018	Democratic	First African-American female mayor

Adrian Perkins	2018	Incumbent	Democratic	See also[edit] Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana Notes[edit] On December 8th, 2018, Adrian D. Perkins was elected Mayor of Shreveport and will succeed Ollie Tyler on December 29th, 2018.

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Alexander Boarman was the mayor of Shreveport from 1866 to 1867.

final_sentence: Alexander Boarman was the mayor of Shreveport from 1866 to 1867.