List of mayors of Charleston, South Carolina
Intendants and Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina

List of mayors of Charleston, South Carolina

Section Title: Intendants and Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina
Table Section Text: None

#	Mayor	Party	Sworn In	Left Office	Comments

1	Richard Hutson	1783	1785

2	Arnoldus Vander Horst	1785	1786

3	John Faucheraud Grimké	1786	1788

4	Rawlins Lowndes	1788	1789

5	Thomas Jones	1789	1790

(2)	Arnoldus Vander Horst	1790	1792

6	John Huger	1792	1794

7	John Bee Holmes	1794	1795

8	John Edwards	1795	1797

9	Henry William De Saussure	Federalist	1797	1799	Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1791 Attorney, indigo planter and slave owner

10	Thomas Roper	1799	1801

11	John Ward	1801	1802

12	David Deas	1802	1803

13	John Drayton	1803	1804

14	Thomas Winstanley	1804	1805

15	Charles Cochran	1805	1806

16	John Dawson, Jr.	1806	1808

17	Benjamin Boyd	1808	1808

18	William Rouse	1808	1810

19	Thomas H. McCalla	1810	1812

20	Thomas Bennett, Jr.	1812	1813

21	Thomas Rhett Smith	Federalist	1813	1815

22	Elias Horry	1815	1817

23	John Geddes	Democratic-Republican	1817	1818	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature Governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 1820

24	Daniel Stevens	1819	1820

(22)	Elias Horry	1820	1821

25	James Hamilton, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1821	1822	U.S. Representative from 1822 to 1829 Governor of South Carolina from 1830 to 1832

(23)	John Geddes	Democratic-Republican	1823	1824

26	Samuel Prioleau	1824	1825	Huguenot

27	Joseph Johnson	1825	1827

28	John Gadsden	1827	1829	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature

29	Henry Laurens Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1829	1830

30	James R. Pringle	Democrat (Unionist)	1830	1831

(29)	Henry Laurens Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1831	1833

31	Edward W. North	1833	1836

32	Robert Young Hayne	Democrat (Nullifier)	1836	1837	U.S. Senator from 1823 to 1832 Governor of South Carolina from 1832 to 1834 First Charleston's chief executive officer known as Mayor of Charleston

(29)	Henry Laurens Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1837	1840

33	Jacob F. Mintzing	Democrat (Unionist)	1840	1842	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature

34	John Schnierle	Democrat	1842	1846	2nd German-American mayor Attorney Major General with the 16th Regiment of South Carolina Militia

35	Thomas Leger Hutchinson	Democrat	1846	1850

(34)	John Schnierle	Democrat	1850	1852

(35)	Thomas Leger Hutchinson	Democrat	1852	1855

36	William Porcher Miles	Democrat	1855	1857

37	Charles Macbeth	Democrat	1857	1865

38	Peter Charles Gaillard	Democrat	1865	1868	Huguenot Gaillard was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army. He was removed from office by Federal authorities.

39	William Wallace Burns	Military Appointment	1868	1868

40	Milton Cogswell	Military Appointment	1868	1868

41	George Washington Clark	Military Appointment	1868	1868

42	Gilbert Pillsbury	Republican	1868	1871	Pillsbury was Charleston's Reconstruction mayor. He made career with the Freedmen's Bureau.

43	Johann Andreas Wagener	Democrat	1871	1873	German-American and Lutheran mayor Wagener had been a Confederate General. He founded St.

44	George I. Cunningham	Republican	1873	1877

45	William W. Sale	Democrat	1877	1879

46	William Ashmead Courtenay	Democrat	1879	1887

47	George D. Bryan	Democrat	1887	1891

48	John F. Ficken	Democrat	1891	1895

49	James Adger Smyth	Democrat	1895	1903

50	R. Goodwyn Rhett	Democrat	1903	1911

51	John P. Grace	Democrat	1911	1915	1st Irish-American and Catholic mayor The John P. Grace Memorial Bridge was named to honor him.

52	Tristram T. Hyde	Democrat	1915	1919

(51)	John P. Grace	Democrat	1919	1923

53	Thomas Porcher Stoney	Democrat	1923	1931

54	Burnett Rhett Maybank	Democrat	1931	1938	Governor of South Carolina from 1939 to 1941 U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1954

55	Henry Whilden Lockwood	Democrat	1938	1944

56	E. Edward Wehman, Jr.	Democrat	1944	1947

57	William McG. Morrison	Democrat	1947	1959

58	J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr.	Democrat	1959	1975

59	Arthur B. Schirmer, Jr.	Democrat	1975	1975

60	Joseph P. Riley, Jr.	Democrat	1975	2016	Riley was the city's longest serving executive and second Irish Catholic mayor.

61	John Tecklenburg	Democrat	2016	present

Sentence(s)

John Faucheraud Grimké was intendant mayor of Charleston, South Carolina from 1786 to 1788.

final_sentence: John Faucheraud Grimké was intendant mayor of Charleston, South Carolina from 1786 to 1788.