Mayor of Dallas
List
This is the list of people who have held the office of Mayor. Note: municipal elections in Texas are non-partisan.

Mayor of Dallas

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: This is the list of people who have held the office of Mayor. Note: municipal elections in Texas are non-partisan.

#	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Terms	Party

1	Samuel B. Pryor	1856	1857	1	None

2	John McClannahan Crockett	1857	1858	1	Democratic

3	Isaac Naylor	1858	1858	1	None

4	A. D. Rice	1858	1859	1	None

5	John M. Crockett (Second term)	1859	1861	1	Democratic

6	J. L. Smith	1861	1861	1	None

7	Thos. E. Sherwood	1861	1862	1	None

Military governor (American Civil War).	1862	1865	None	None

8	John M. Crockett (Third term)	1865	1866	1	Democratic

9	John W. Lane	1866	1866	1	Democratic

10	George W. Guess	1866	1868	1	None

11	Benjamin Long	1868	1870	1	None

12	Henry Ervay	1870	1872	1	None

13	Benjamin Long (Second term)	1872	1874	1	None

14	William Lewis Cabell	1874	1876	1	None

15	John D. Kerfoot	1876	1877	½	None

16	William Lewis Cabell (Second term)	1877	1879	1	None

17	J. M. Thurmond	1879	1880	1	None

18	J. J. Good	1880	1881	½	Democratic

19	J. W. Crowdus	1881	1883	1	None

20	William Lewis Cabell (Third term)	1883	1885	1	None

21	John Henry Brown	1885	1887	1	None

22	Winship C. Connor	1887	1894	3	None

23	Bryan T. Barry	1894	1895	½	None

24	F. P. Holland	1895	1897	1	None

25	Bryan T. Barry (Second term)	1897	1898	1	None

26	John H. Traylor	1898	1900	2	None

27	Ben E. Cabell	1900	1904	4	None

28	Bryan T. Barry (Third term)	1904	1906	2	None

29	Curtis P. Smith	1906	1907	1	Democratic

30	Stephen J. Hay	1907	1911	2	Democratic

31	W. M. Holland	1911	1915	2	None

32	Henry D. Lindsley	1915	1917	1	Democratic

33	Joe E. Lawther	1917	1919	1	Democratic

34	Frank W. Wozencraft	1919	1921	1	Democratic

35	Sawnie R. Aldredge	1921	1923	1	Democratic

36	Louis Blaylock	1923	1927	2	None

37	R. E. Burt	1927	1929	1	None

38	J. Waddy Tate	1929	1931	1	None

39	Tom Bradford	1931	1932	½	None

40	Charles E. Turner	1932	1935	1½	Democratic

41	George Sergeant	1935	1937	1	Democratic

42	George Sprague	1937	1939	1	Democratic

43	Woodall Rodgers	1939	1947	4	None

44	J. R. Temple	1947	1949	1	Democratic

45	Wallace H. Savage	1949	1951	1	Democratic

46	Jean Baptiste Adoue	1951	1953	1	None

47	Robert L. Thornton	1953	1961	4	Democratic

48	Earle Cabell	1961	1964	1½	Democratic

49	J. Erik Jonsson	1964	1971	3½	None

50	Wes Wise	1971	1976	2½	None

Acting (51)	Adlene Harrison	1976	1976	less than 1	Democratic

51 (52)	Robert Folsom	1976	1981	2½	None

52 (53)	Jack Wilson Evans	1981	1983	1	Republican

53 (54)	Starke Taylor	1983	1987	2	Republican

54 (55)	Annette Strauss	1987	1991	2	None

55 (56)	Steve Bartlett	1991	1995	2	Republican

56 (57)	Ron Kirk	1995	2002	3½	Democratic

57 (58)	Laura Miller	2002	2007	2½	Democratic

58 (59)	Tom Leppert	2007	2011	2	Republican

Acting (60)	Dwaine Caraway	2011	2011	less than 1	Democratic

59 (61)	Mike Rawlings	2011	incumbent	2	Democratic

Sentence(s)

Earle Cabell served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964.

final_sentence: Earle Cabell served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964.