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Mayors of Alexandria, Virginia

Mayors of Alexandria, 1780-2003 (may be incomplete!)
Robert T. Hooe 1780-81 James Hendricks 1781-82 William Herbert 1782-83 Richard Conway 1783-84 James Keith 1784-85 James Kirk 1785-86 David Arell 1786 John Fitzgerald 1786-87 William Hunter, Jr. 1787-88 Jesse Taylor 1788-89 Dennis Ramsay 1789-90 William Hunter, Jr. 1790-91 Philip Marsteller 1791-92 Jesse Taylor 1792-93 Dennis Ramsay 1793-94 Robert Mease 1794-95 John Dundas 1795-96 Jonah Thompson 1796-97 Francis Peyton 1797-98 John Dundas 1798-99 Francis Peyton 1799-1800 Amos Alexander 1800-01 William Veitch 1846-49 Isaac Buckingham 1849-50 Lawrence Berry Taylor 1850-53 John Muir 1853-54 George P. Wise 1854-57 William Duncan Massey 1857-60 William B. Price 1860-61 Lewis McKenzie 1861-63 Charles A. Ware 1863-66 Hugh Latham 1866-68 William Norris Berkley 1868-69 Hugh Latham 1869-72 William Norris Berkley 1872-74 Kosciusko Kemper 1874-76 J. P. Johnson 1876-77 Kosciusko Kemper 1877-78 Courtland H. Smith 1878-81 James T. Beckham 1881-85 John B. Smoot 1885-87 E. Ethebert Downham 1887-91 Henry Strauss 1891-97 George L. Simpson 1897-1903 F. J. Paff 1903-12 Thomas Fisher 1912-20 James M. Duncan 1920-22 William Albert Smoot 1922-30 Robert Simpson Jones 1930 Carroll Pierce 1930-31 Edmund F. Ticer 1931-34 Emmett C. Davison 1934-37 Richard Ruffner 1937-40 William T. Wilkins 1940-49 Franklin B. Backus 1949-52 Marshall J. Beverly 1952-55 Leroy S. Bendheim 1955-61 Frank E. Mann 1961-67 Charles E. Beatley 1967-76 Frank E. Mann 1976-79 Charles E. Beatley 1979-85 James P. Moran, Jr. 1985-91 Patsy Ticer 1991-96 Kerry J. Donley 1996-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1930 Mar 11: William Albert Smoot, resigned.
  • 1991: Patsy Ticer, elected.
  • 1991 Jan 2: Patsy Ticer, appointed.
  • 1994 May 3: Patsy Ticer, elected; Bell, defeated.
  • 1996 Feb 20: Kerry J. Donley, elected; Charles S. Severance, defeated.
  • 1997 May 6: Kerry J. Donley, elected unopposed.
  • 2000 May 2: Kerry J. Donley (Dem), elected; Robert R. Peavey (Ind), defeated; Charles S. Severance (Ind), defeated.


    Alexandria
    (part of D.C. from 1801 to 1846)

    Mayors of Alexandria, 1801-46 (may be incomplete!)
    George Taylor 1801-02 Alexander Smith 1802 George Slacum 1802-03 Jacob Hoffman 1803-04 Elisha C. Dick 1804-05 Jonah Thompson 1805-08 Cuthbert Powell 1808-09 William Herbert 1809-12 Charles Simms 1812-15 Edmund J. Lee 1815-18 Jacob Hoffman 1818-21 Christopher Neale 1821-24 John Roberts 1824-27 Thomson F. Mason 1827-30 John Roberts 1830-33 Bernard Hooe, Jr. 1833-36 George Wise 1836-37 Bernard Hooe, Jr. 1837-40 Edgar Snowden 1840-43 Robert G. Violett 1843 Joseph Eaches 1843-46

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