List of mayors of Shreveport, Louisiana


This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
MayorFromToPartyNotes
Angus McNeill18361839-President of Shreve Town Co.
John Octavius Sewall18391840WhigFirst Elected Mayor
William Walton George, M.D.18401840Democratic
Samuel W. Briggs18411841-
William Walton George, M.D.18421843Democratic
John N. Howell18441844Democratic
Joseph Clinton Beall18451845Democratic
Lawrence Pike Crain18461847Democratic
Robert Nathaniel Wood18471847Whig/Know NothingDied in Mexico
John Morgan Landrum18481848DemocraticElected to Congress
Rev. John Bryce18491849Democratic
Robert W. Cooke18501850Democratic
Joseph Clinton Beall18511853Democratic
John Wallace Jones18541857Democratic
Jonas Robeson18581858Democratic
John W. Pennall18591859DemocraticAlso Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861
Jonas Robeson18601861Democratic
Joseph Clinton Beall18621863Democratic
John Gooch, Samuel Wells18641865DemocraticGooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells.
Alexander Boarman18661867Republican.Appointed by Union.
Lewis S. Markham18671867Dem.Served only one month.
Martin Tally18671868RepublicanAppointed during reconstruction by Union.
Jerome B. Gilmore18691871RepublicanAppointed during reconstruction by Union.
William Rabun Shivers18711871Dem.Was killed before he was able to serve term.
Moses Hodge Crowell18711872RepublicanAppointed by the Union.
Joseph Taylor, M.D.18721873Dem.Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities.
Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh18721873RepublicanJointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor.
Samuel J. Ward18741874DemocraticSheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales.
W. Nick Murphy18751878Republican/DemocraticSwitched from Republican to Democrat.
Andrew Currie18781889DemocraticResigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland.
Edward B. Herndon18901890DemocraticElected to fill unfinished term.
Richard Tucker Vinson18911895Democratic
Reuben Neil McKellar18961900DemocraticBorn in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens
Benjamin Holzman19001902DemocraticBorn in Germany.
Andrew C. Querbes, Sr.19021906DemocraticBorn in New Orleans.
Ernest Ralph Berstein19061908Democratic
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.19081910Democratic
John H. Eastman19101914DemocraticFirst mayor under city commission government
Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D.19141916Democratic
Robert Hodges Ward19161918DemocraticSon of Mayor Samuel J. Ward.
John McWilliams Ford19181922Democratic
Lee Emmett Thomas19221930DemocraticLouisiana State Representative, 1912–1916
J. G. Palmer19301932DemocraticLouisiana State Judge.
John McWilliams Ford19321932Democratic
George W. Hardy, Jr.19321934DemocraticLouisiana State Judge.
Samuel S. Caldwell19341946Democratic
Clyde E. Fant19461954Democratic
James C. Gardner19541958DemocraticLouisiana State Representative, 1952–1954
Clyde E. Fant19581970DemocraticLongest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor.
L. Calhoun Allen, Jr.19701978Democratic
William T. Hanna, Jr.19781982Democratic
John Brennan Hussey19821990Democratic
Hazel Beard19901994RepublicanFirst female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era
Robert W. "Bo" Williams19941998Republican
Keith Hightower19982006Democratic
Cedric B. Glover20062014DemocraticFirst African-American mayor
Ollie Tyler20142018DemocraticFirst African-American female mayor
Adrian Perkins2018IncumbentDemocratic