List of mayors of Milwaukee
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As of 1914, the office of mayor of Milwaukee is officially nonpartisan.

List of mayors of Milwaukee

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: As of 1914, the office of mayor of Milwaukee is officially nonpartisan.

#	Mayor	Party	Sworn In	Left Office	Comments

1	Solomon Juneau	Democrat	1846	1846

2	Horatio Wells	Democrat	1847	1847

3	Byron Kilbourn	Democrat	1848	1848

4	Don A. J. Upham	Democrat	1849	1850

5	George H. Walker	Democrat	1851	1851

6	Hans Crocker	Democrat	1852	1852

7	George H. Walker	Democrat	1853	1853	His second, nonconsecutive term

8	Byron Kilbourn	Democrat	1854	1854	His second, nonconsecutive term

9	James B. Cross	Democrat	1855	1857

10	William A. Prentiss	Republican	1858	1859

11	Herman L. Page	Democrat	1859	1859

12	William Pitt Lynde	Democrat	1860	1860

13	James S. Brown	Democrat	1861	1861

14	Horace Chase	Democrat	1862	1862

15	Edward O'Neill	Democrat	1863	1863

16	Abner Kirby	Democrat	1864	1864

17	John J. Tallmadge	Democrat	1865	1866

18	Edward O'Neill	Democrat	1867	1870	His second, nonconsecutive term

19	Joseph Phillips	Democrat	1870	1871

20	Harrison Ludington	Republican	1871	1872

21	David G. Hooker	Democrat	1872	1873

22	Harrison Ludington	Republican	1873	1876	His second, nonconsecutive term

23	Ammi R. Butler	Democrat	1876	1878

24	John Black	Democrat	1878	1880

25	Thomas H. Brown	Republican	1880	1882

26	John M. Stowell	Democrat	1882	1884

27	Emil Wallber	Republican	1884	1888

28	Thomas H. Brown	Republican	1888	1890	His second, nonconsecutive term

29	George W. Peck	Democrat	1890	November 11, 1890	Resigned to become Governor of Wisconsin

30	Peter J. Somers	Democrat	December 6, 1890	June 5, 1893	Resigned after being elected to the House of Representatives

Henry Hase	June 5, 1893	July 1, 1893	Acting Mayor

31	John C. Koch	Republican	1893	1896

32	William C. Rauschenberger	Republican	1896	1898

33	David S. Rose	Democrat	1898	1906

34	Sherburn M. Becker	Republican	1906	1908

35	David S. Rose	Democrat	1908	1910	His second, nonconsecutive term

36	Emil Seidel	Socialist	1910	1912

37	Gerhard A. Bading	Republican-Democrat Fusion	1912	1916

38	Daniel Hoan	Socialist	1916	1940

39	Carl Zeidler	Democrat	April 15, 1940	April 8, 1942	Resigned to fight in World War II, in which he was killed

40	John Bohn	Nonpartisan	April 8, 1942	April 20, 1948	Interim mayor until being officially elected in 1944

41	Frank Zeidler	Socialist	April 20, 1948	April 18, 1960

42	Henry Maier	Democrat	April 18, 1960	April 15, 1988

43	John Norquist	Democrat	April 15, 1988	January 1, 2004	Resigned to head the Congress for the New Urbanism

Marvin Pratt	Democrat	January 1, 2004	April 15, 2004	Interim mayor

44	Tom Barrett	Democrat	April 15, 2004	present

Sentence(s)

Wells served as mayor of Milwaukee from 1847.

final_sentence: Wells served as mayor of Milwaukee from 1847.