The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Indianapolis, Indiana

Mayors of Indianapolis, Indiana

Mayors of Indianapolis, 1847-2004 (may be incomplete!)
Samuel Henderson 1847-49 Horatio C. Newcomb 1849-51 Caleb Scudder 1851-54 James McCready 1854-56 Henry F. West 1856 Charles G. Coulon 1856 William J. Wallace 1856-58 Samuel D. Maxwell 1858-63 John Caven 1863-67 Daniel McCauley 1867-73 James L. Mitchell 1873-75 John Caven 1875-81 Daniel W. Grubbs 1881-84 John L. McMaster 1884-86 Caleb S. Denny 1886-90 Thomas L. Sullivan 1890-93 Caleb S. Denny 1893-95 Thomas Taggart 1895-1901 Charles A. Bookwalter 1901-03 John W. Holtzman 1903-05 Charles A. Bookwalter 1906-09 Samuel Lewis Shank 1910-13 Harry R. Wallace 1913 Joseph E. Bell 1914-17 Charles W. Jewett 1918-21 Samuel Lewis Shank 1922-25 John L. Duvall 1926-27 Claude E. Negley 1927 L. Ert Slack 1927-29 Reginald H. Sullivan 1930-34 John W. Kern 1935-37 Walter C. Boetcher 1937-38 Reginald H. Sullivan 1939-42 Robert H. Tyndall 1943-47 George L. Denny 1947 Al G. Feeney 1948-50 Philip L. Bayt, Jr. 1950-51 Christian J. Emhardt 1951 Alex M. Clark 1952-55 Philip L. Bayt, Jr. 1956-59 Charles H. Boswell 1959-62 Albert H. Losche 1962-63 John J. Barton 1964-67 Richard G. Lugar 1968-75 William H. Hudnut III 1976-91 Stephen Goldsmith 1992-99 Bart Peterson 2000-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1851 Nov 7: Horatio C. Newcomb, resigned.

1856 Nov 8: Henry F. West, died in office.

1858 May 3: William J. Wallace, resigned.

1891: William Wirt Herod, defeated.

1913 Nov 28: Samuel Lewis Shank, resigned.

1917: Charles W. Jewett, elected.

1927 Oct 27: John L. Duvall, resigned.

1937 Sep 2: John W. Kern, resigned.

1947 Jul 9: Robert H. Tyndall, died in office.

1950 Nov 12: Al G. Feeney, died in office.

1951 Nov 24: Philip L. Bayt, Jr., resigned.

1959 Jan 1: Philip L. Bayt, Jr., resigned.

1962 Aug 6: Charles H. Boswell, resigned.

1963: Clarence Drayer, defeated; Samuel Unger, defeated.

1999 Nov 2: Bart Peterson (Dem), elected; Sue Anne Gilroy (Rep), defeated; Andrew Horning (Libertarian), defeated; John Gibson (Our Party), defeated; John Leroy Plemons, defeated.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 180,022 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/indianapolis.html
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
If you are searching for a specific individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.
Copyright notice. Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2008 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.

The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. Web hosting is provided by Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on June 16, 2008.