The following is a list of people who have served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte's first records of a mayor date back to 1853 when William F. Davidson was elected to lead the city.
Charlotte mayors serve two-year terms. The longest serving mayor is Pat McCrory, who served from 1995-2009.
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Nineteenth century
- William F. Davidson (1853-1857)
- David Parks (1857-1859)
- Jennings B. Kerr (1859-1861)
- William A. Owens (1861-1862)
- Robert F. Davidson (1862-1863)
- Samuel A. Harris (1864-1865)
- H.M. Pritchard (1865-1866)
- Samuel A. Harris (1866-1867)
- F.W. Ahrens (1867-1868)
- H.M. Pritchard (1868-1869)
- Clement Dowd (1869-1871) (Democrat)
- John A. Young (1871-1873)
- William F. Davidson (1873-1875)
- William Johnston (1875-1878)
- B.R. Smith (1878-1879)
- Frank I. Osborne (1879-1880) (Democrat)
- F.S. DeWolfe (1880-1883)
- W.C. Maxwell (1883-1884
- William Johnston (1884-1887)
- F.B. McDowell (1887-1891)
- R.J. Brevard (1891-1895)
- J.H. Weddington (1895-1897)
- E.B. Spring (1897-1899)
Twentieth century
- J.D. McCall (1899-1901)
- Peter Marshall Brown (1901-1905)
- S.S. McNinch (1905-1907)
- T.S. Franklin (1907-1909)
- T.W. Hawkins (1909-1911)
- Charles A. Bland (1911-1915)
- T.L. Kirkpatrick (1915-1917)
- Frank R. McNinch (1917-1920)
- John M. Wilson (1920-1921)
- James O. Walker (1921-1924)
- Harvey W. Moore (1924-1926)
- David M. Abernathy (1926-1927)
- F. Marion Redd (1927-1929)
- George E. Wilson, Jr. (1929-1931)
- Charles E. Lambeth (1931-1933)
- Arthur E. Wearn (1933-1935)
- Ben Elbert Douglas, Sr. (1935-1941) (Democrat)
- E. McA. Currie (1941-1943)
- H.H. Baxter (1943-1949)
- Victor Shaw (1949-1953)
- Philip Van Every (1953-1957)
- James Saxon Smith (1957-1961)
- Stanford R. Brookshire (1961-1969)
- John M. Belk (1969-1977) (Democrat)
- Kenneth R. Harris (1977-1979) (Republican)
- H. Edward Knox (1979-1983) (Democrat)
- Harvey Gantt (1983-1987) (Democrat), First African-American mayor
- Sue Myrick (1987-1991) (Republican), First female mayor
- Richard Vinroot (1991-1995) (Republican)
Twenty-first century
- Pat McCrory (1995-2009) (Republican), Longest serving mayor
- Anthony Foxx (2009-) (Democratic), Current mayor
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