List of mayors of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
List of magistrates, mayors, and mayor-presidents
Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present.

List of mayors of Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Section Title: List of magistrates, mayors, and mayor-presidents
Table Section Text: Below is a list of Baton Rouge's chief executives—magistrates from 1818 to 1846, mayors from 1846 to 1949, and mayor-presidents from 1949 to present.

No.	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party	Note

1	William Williams	1818	1820	first magistrate

2	Francois "Palo" Gardere	1820	1821

3	William Williams	1821	1822

4	William Wykoff, Jr.	1822	1823

5	Jason Candee	1823	1824

6	Bartholomew Beauregard	1824	1828

7	William Grivet	1828	1829

8	William R. Willis	1829	1832

9	John Reid	1832	1833

10	William R. Willis	1833	1834

11	P. A. Walker	1834	1835

12	Raphael Legendre	1835	1836

13	Stephen Henderson, Jr.	1836	1836	resigned

14	Raphael Legendre	1836	1838

15	William Gil, Sr.	1838	1839

16	James Cooper	1839	1843

17	Abel Waddill	1843	1844

18	James Cooper	1844	1845

19	John Reid	1845	1846	final magistrate

20	John Robert Dufrocq	1846	1855	Whig	first mayor; 1854: re-elected unopposed

21	Joseph Monget	1855	1857	Know Nothing	1856: appointed, by commissioners of election, due to election resulting in a tie vote of 223–223

22	Edward Cousinard	1857	1859	Democratic

23	James Essex Mason Elam	1859	1862	Democratic

24	Benjamin Frankin Bryan	1862	1862	Democratic	resigned, due to Battle of Baton Rouge

25	Jordan Holt	1862	1865	Democratic	1862: appointed, by board of selectmen; 1863–1865: city administered by Union occupation troops, rather than by municipal government; 1865: reappointed, by Gov.

26	James Essex Mason Elam	1865	1869	Democratic	1865: appointed, by Wells; 1867: election canceled, due to order by Gen. Philip Sheridan in accordance with the implementation of the First Reconstruction Act

27	Oliver P. Skolfield	1869	1870	Democratic

28	James Essex Mason Elam	1870	1871	Democratic

29	Loyeau Berhel	1871	1871	Republican	certified elected, by Democratic-controlled commissioners of election; commissioned to assume office, by Gov. Henry Clay Warmoth but was eventually removed after charges of voting irregularities upheld by Democratic-controlled electoral investigative committee; first African American mayor; first Republican mayor

30	James Essex Mason Elam	1871	1872	Democratic	1871: retroactively declared elected by Democratic-controlled electoral investigative committee

31 *	Henry Schorten	1872	1876	Republican	1872: certified elected, by commissioners of election and remained in office after charges of voting irregularities dismissed by Democratic-controlled electoral investigating committee; 1873: appointed, by Gov.

32 *	Jordan Holt	1872	1872	Democratic	acting mayor; after his and Democratic-controlled Board of Selectmen's endorsement of petition signed by prominent local citizens, election results were voided, by Warmoth

33 *	James Essex Mason Elam	1872	1873	Democratic	commissioned to assume office, by Warmoth; resigned, due to the creation of the bipartisan "compromise list of candidates for the city government" for Kellogg to appoint

34	Leon Jastremski	1876	1882	Democratic

35	Joseph C. Charrotte	1882	1883	Democratic	died in office

36	John J. Wax	1883	1883	Democratic	acting mayor

37	William S. Booth	1883	1884	Democratic

38	Gustavus L. "Gus" Vay	1884	1888	Democratic

39	Benjamin Franklin Bryan	1888	1890	Democratic

40	Gustavus "Gus" L. Vay	1890	1894	Democratic

41	Benjamin Franklin Bryan	1894	1896	Democratic

42	John J. Wax	1896	1898	Democratic

43	Robert A. Hart	1898	1902	Democratic

44	Robert L. Pruyn	1902	1902	Democratic	resigned, due to commitments of his building contractor business

45	Benjamin Raphael "Ben" Mayer, Sr.	1902	1903	Democratic	acting mayor; first known Jewish mayor

46	Wade Hampton Bynum	1903	1910	Democratic	longest-serving mayor (also served 1923–41)

47	Jules Roux	1910	1913	Democratic	died in office

48	Isidore Larguier III	1913	1913	Democratic	acting mayor

49	Alex Grouchy, Jr.	1913	1922	Democratic	1913: appointed, by city council

50	Turner Bynum	1922	1922	Democratic	died in office

51	Louis J. Ricaud	1922	1923	Democratic	acting mayor

52	Wade Hampton Bynum	1923	1941	Democratic	longest-serving mayor (also served 1903–10)

53	Frederick Saugrain "Fred" LeBlanc, Sr.	1941	1944	Democratic	resigned, to serve as Louisiana Attorney General

54	Sargent Powers Higginbotham	1944	1953	Democratic	1944: appointed, by Gov. Jimmie Davis; final mayor; 1949: first mayor-president

55	Jesse Lynn Webb, Jr.	1953	1956	Democratic	died in office

56	Frank J. McConnell	1956	1956	Democratic	acting mayor

57	Mary Estus Jones Webb	1956	1957	Democratic	appointed, by city council; first female mayor

58	John "Jack" Christian	1957	1965	Democratic

59	Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Dumas	1965	1981	Democratic	resident of Baker at time of election

60	James Patrick "Pat" Screen, Jr.	1981	1989	Democratic

61	Thomas Edward "Tom Ed" McHugh	1989	2001	Democratic	resident of Zachary at time of election; changed party affiliation to Republican in 1995; first Republican mayor since Reconstruction Era

Republican

62	Bobby Ray Simpson	2001	2005	Republican	mayor of Baker at time of election

63	Melvin Lee "Kip" Holden	2005	2017	Democratic	first African American mayor to serve full term; first Democratic African American mayor

64	Sharon Weston Broome	2017	Present	Democratic	first elected female mayor; first female African American mayor

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Mary Estus Jones Webb was the Mayor-President of Baton Rouge.

final_sentence: Mary Estus Jones Webb was the Mayor-President of Baton Rouge.