List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia
Popularly-elected mayors (1853-1948)

List of mayors of Richmond, Virginia

Section Title: Popularly-elected mayors (1853-1948)
Table Section Text: None

Mayor	Political Party	Term start	Term end

43	Joseph C. Mayo	Democratic	1853	April 3, 1865

Fall of Richmond (April 3, 1865) - City under federal authority until appointment of David Saunders as mayor

44	David J. Saunders	Democratic	July 3, 1865	April 6, 1866

45	Joseph C. Mayo	Democratic	April 7, 1866	May 4, 1868

46	George Chahoon	Republican	May 6, 1868	March 15, 1870

47	Henry K. Ellyson	Democratic	March 16, 1870	June 30, 1871

48	Anthony M. Keiley	Democratic	July 1, 1871	June 30, 1876

49	William C. Carrington	Democratic	July 1, 1876	June 30, 1888

50	James Taylor Ellyson	Democratic	July 1, 1888	June 30, 1894

51	Richard M. Taylor	Democratic	July 1, 1894	1904

52	Carlton McCarthy	Democratic	September 1, 1904	August 31, 1908

53	David C. Richardson	Democratic	September 1, 1908	September 3, 1912

54	George Ainslie	Democratic	September 4, 1912	1924

55	John Fulmer Bright	Democratic	1924	1940

56	Gordon Barbour Ambler	Democratic	1940	1944

57	William C. Herbert	Democratic	1944	September 10, 1946

58	Horace H. Edwards	Democratic	September 11, 1946	1948

Sentence(s)

Carlton McCarthy was the Mayor of Richmond (Virginia) from 1904 to 1908.

final_sentence: Carlton McCarthy was the Mayor of Richmond (Virginia) from 1904 to 1908.