List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee - wikipedia List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee Elections in Tennessee Federal government Presidential elections 1796 1800 1804 1808 1812 1816 1820 1824 1828 1832 1836 1840 1844 1848 1852 1856 1860 1868 1872 1876 1880 1884 1888 1892 1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 2000 2008 2012 2016 Presidential primaries Democratic 2008 2016 Republican 2008 U.S. Senate elections 1952 1954 1958 1960 1964 1966 1970 1972 1976 1978 1982 1984 1988 1990 1994 2000 2002 2006 2008 2012 2014 2018 2020 U.S. House elections 2006 2008 2012 2014 2016 2018 Special elections Senate, 1994 State government Gubernatorial elections 1799 1801 1803 1805 1807 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2014 2018 Ballot measures Amendment 1, 2006 Nashville Mayoral elections 2015 2018 Memphis Mayoral elections 2015 Government Contents 1 Mayors of the City of Nashville 2 Mayors of Metropolitan Nashville 3 See also 4 Bibliography Mayors of the City of Nashville The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville before it had a consolidated metropolitan government : Mayor Term Joseph Coleman 1806 -- 1809 Benjamin J. Bradford 1809 -- 1811 William Tait 1811 -- 1814 Joseph Thorpe Elliston 1814 -- 1817 Stephen Cantrell, Jr. 1817 -- 1817 Jackson Baker 1818 -- 1819 Felix Robertson 1818 -- 1819 Thomas Crutcher 1819 -- 1820 James Condon 1820 -- 1821 John Patton Erwin 1821 -- 1822 Robert Brownlee Currey 1822 -- 1824 Randal McGavock 1824 -- 1825 Wilkins F. Tannehill 1825 -- 1827 Felix Robertson 1827 -- 1829 William Armstrong 1829 -- 1833 John Meredith Bass 1833 -- 1834 John Patton Erwin 1834 -- 1835 William Nichol 1835 -- 1837 Henry Hollingsworth 1837 -- 1839 Charles Clay Trabue 1839 -- 1841 Samuel Van Dyke Stout 1841 -- 1842 Thomas B. Coleman 1842 -- 1843 Powhatan W. Maxey 1843 -- 1845 John Hugh Smith 1845 -- 1846 John A. Goodlett 1846 -- 1847 Alexander Allison 1847 -- 1849 John McCormick Lea 1849 -- 1850 John Hugh Smith 1850 -- 1853 Williamson Hartley Horn 1853 -- 1854 William Booker Shapard 1854 -- 1854 Robert Bell Castleman 1854 -- 1856 Andrew Anderson 1856 -- 1857 John A. McEwen 1857 -- 1858 Randal William McGavock 1858 -- 1859 Samuel N. Hollingsworth 1859 -- 1860 Richard Boone Cheatham 1860 -- 1862 John Hugh Smith 1862 -- 1865 William Matt Brown 1865 -- 1867 Augustus E. Alden 1867 -- 1869 John Meredith Bass 1869 -- 1869 Kindred Jenkins Morris 1869 -- 1871 Thomas A. Kercheval 1871 -- 1874 Morton Boyte Howell 1874 -- 1875 Thomas A. Kercheval 1875 -- 1883 Claiborne Hooper Phillips 1883 -- 1886 Thomas A. Kercheval 1886 -- 1888 Charles P. McCarver 1888 -- 1890 William Litterer 1890 -- 1891 George Blackmore Guild 1891 -- 1895 William Marshall McCarthey 1895 -- 1897 Richard Houston Dudley 1897 -- 1900 James Marshall Head 1900 -- 1904 Albert Smiley Williams 1904 -- 1906 Thomas Owen Morris 1906 -- 1908 James Stephens Brown 1908 -- 1909 Hilary Ewing Howse 1909 -- 1915 Robert Ewing 1915 -- 1917 William Gupton 1917 -- 1921 Felix Zollicoffer Wilson 1921 -- 1922 William Percy Sharpe 1922 -- 1924 Hilary Ewing Howse 1924 -- 1938 Thomas L. Cummings, Sr. 1938 -- 1951 Ben West 1951 -- 1963 Mayors of Metropolitan Nashville The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville after the consolidation of the municipal government with the government of Davidson County : Mayor Term Beverly Briley 1963 -- 1975 Richard Fulton 1975 -- 1987 Bill Boner 1987 -- 1991 Phil Bredesen 1991 -- 1999 Bill Purcell 1999 -- 2007 Karl Dean 2007 -- 2015 Megan Barry 2015 -- 2018 David Briley 2018 -- present See also Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee Bibliography Mayer N. Zald ; Thomas A. Anderson ( 1968 ). `` Secular Trends and Historical Contingencies in the Recruitment of Mayors : Nashville as Compared to New Haven and Chicago ''. Urban Affairs Review. 3. doi : 10.1177 / 107808746800300403. 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Question: who was the mayor of nashville in 1960
Answer: Ben West