List of mayors of Houston

Mayor of Houston
Seal of the City of Houston
Flag of the City of Houston
Incumbent Sylvester Turner since January 2, 2016
Style	The Honorable
Term length	Four years, renewable once (effective 2016)
Inaugural holder	James S. Holman 1837
Formation	Houston City Charter
Salary	$236,189 (2019)
Website	Official website

The following is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas.

Until 2015, the term of the mayor was two years. Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier, the city charter imposed term limits on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total). On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to four years, while imposing a limit of two terms.

List of mayors of Houston

Term	Mayor		Party affiliation
2016–present	Sylvester Turner		Democratic
2010–2016	Annise Parker		Democratic
2004–2010	Bill White		Democratic
1998–2004	Lee Brown		Democratic
1992–1998	Bob Lanier		Democratic
1982–1992	Kathy Whitmire		Democratic
1978–1982	Jim McConn		Republican
1974–1978	Fred Hofheinz		Democratic
1964–1973	Louie Welch		Republican
1958–1963	Lewis Cutrer		Democratic
1956–1957	Oscar F. Holcombe (5th)		Democratic
1953–1955	Roy Hofheinz		Democratic
1947–1952	Oscar F. Holcombe (4th)		Democratic
1943–1946	Otis Massey		Democratic
1941–1942	Neal Pickett		Democratic
1939–1941	Oscar F. Holcombe (3rd)		Democratic
1937–1938	Richard H. Fonville
1933–1936	Oscar F. Holcombe (2nd)		Democratic
1929–1933	Walter E. Monteith
1921–1929	Oscar F. Holcombe		Democratic
1918–1921	A. Earl Amerman
1917–1918	Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Jr.
1917	J. J. Pastoriza (died in office)
1913–1917	Ben Campbell
1905–1913	H. Baldwin Rice (2nd)
1904–1905	Andrew L. Jackson
1902–1904	O. T. Holt
1901–1902	John D. Woolford
1898–1901	Samuel H. Brashear
1896–1898	H. Baldwin Rice
1892–1896	John Thomas Browne
1890–1892	Henry Scherffius
1886–1890	Daniel C. Smith
1880–1886	William Robinson Baker
1879–1880	Andrew Jackson Burke
1877–1878	James T. D. Wilson (2nd)
1875–1876	I. C. Lord
1874	James T. D. Wilson
1870–1873	Thomas H. Scanlan
1868–1870	Joseph Robert Morris
1867–1868	Alexander McGowan (2nd)
1866	Horace Dickenson Taylor
1863–1865	William Anders
1862	Thomas W. House
1861	William J. Hutchins
1860	Thomas W. Whitmarsh
1859	William King
1858	Alexander McGowan
1856–1857	Cornelius Ennis
1855–1856	James H. Stevens
1853–1854	Nathan Fuller
1849–1852	Francis W. Moore, Jr. (3rd)
1847–1848	B. P. Buckner
1846	James Bailey
1845	W. W. Swain
1844	Horace Baldwin
1843	Francis W. Moore, Jr. (2nd)
1841–1842	Colonel John Day Andrews
1840	Charles Bigelow
1839	George W. Lively
1838–1839	Francis W. Moore, Jr.
1837	James S. Holman

See also

• Timeline of Houston

External links

• Mayor of Houston Biography
• List of Houston mayors
• Rulers - Houston