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Mayors of Charlotte, North Carolina

Mayors of Charlotte, 1853-2006 (may be incomplete!)
William F. Davidson 1853-57 David Parks 1857-59 Jennings B. Kerr 1859-60 William A. Owens 1861-62 Robert F. Davidson 1862-63 Samuel A. Harris 1864-65 H. M. Pritchard 1865-66 Samuel A. Harris 1866-67 F. W. Ahrens 1867-68 H. M. Pritchard 1868-69 Clement Dowd 1869-71 John A. Young 1871-73 William F. Davidson 1873-75 William Johnston 1875-78 B. R. Smith 1878-79 F. I. Osborne 1879-80 F. S. DeWolfe 1880-83 W. C. Maxwell 1883-84 William Johnston 1884-87 F. Brevard McDowell 1887-91 R. J. Brevard 1891-95 J. H. Weddington 1895-97 E. B. Spring 1897-99 J. D. McCall 1899-1901 Peter Marshall Brown 1901-05 Samuel S. McNinch 1905-07 T. S. Franklin 1907-09 T. W. Hawkins 1909-11 Charles A. Bland 1911-15 T. L. Kirkpatrick 1915-17 Frank R. McNinch 1917-20 John M. Wilson 1920-21 James O. Walker 1921-24 Harvey W. Moore 1924-26 David M. Abernathy 1926-27 F. Marion Redd 1927-29 George E. Wilson, Jr. 1929-31 Charles E. Lambeth 1931-33 Arthur E. Wearn 1933-35 Ben E. Douglas 1935-41 E. McA. Currie 1941-43 H. H. Baxter 1943-49 Victor Shaw 1949-53 Philip Van Every 1953-57 James Saxon Smith 1957-61 Stanford R. Brookshire 1961-69 John Belk 1969-77 Kenneth R. Harris 1977-79 Eddie Knox 1979-83 Harvey B. Gantt 1983-87 Sue Myrick 1987-91 Richard Vinroot 1991-95 Patrick McCrory 1995-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1995: Patrick McCrory, elected.
  • 1999 Nov 2: Patrick McCrory, elected; Ella Butler Scarborough, defeated.

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