List of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky

Mayor of Lexington, Kentucky
Incumbent Linda Gorton since January 6, 2019
Formation	1832
First holder	Charleton Hunt
Website	Office of the Mayor

This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky.^[1][2] The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.^[3]

The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.^[4]

Pre-consolidation mayors

#	Mayor	Term start	Term end
1	Charleton Hunt	1832	1834
2	James E. Davis	1835	1836
3	James G. McKinney	1837	1838
4	Charles H. Wickliffe	1839	1840
5	Daniel Bradford	1841	1841
6	James Logue	1842	1845
7	Thomas Ross	1846	1846
8	John Henry	1847	1847
9	George Payne Jouett	1848	1848
10	Orlando F. Payne	1849	1850
11	Edward W. Dowden	1851	1853
12	Thomas H. Pindell	1854	1854
13	William Swift	1855	1858
14	Thomas B. Monroe Jr.	1859	1859
15	Benjamin F. Graves	1860	1861
16	Caleb Thomas Worley	1862	1862
17	Joseph Wingate	1863	1865
18	David W. Standiford	1866	1866
19	Jerry T. Frazier	1867	1867
20	Joseph G. Chinn	1868	1868
21	Jerry T. Frazier	1869	1880
22	Claude M. Johnson	1880	1888
23	Charles W. Foushee	1888	1891
24	J. Hull Davidson	1892	1893
25	Henry T. Duncan	1894	1895
26	Joseph Bullock Simrall	1896	1899
27	Henry T. Duncan	1900	1904
28	Thomas A. Combs	1904	1907
28	R. B. Waddy	1907	1908
29	John Skain	1908	1911
30	J. Ernest Cassidy	1912	1916
31	James C. Rogers	1916	1919
32	William H. McCorkle	1919	1919
33	Thomas Clark Bradley	1920	1924
34	Hogan Yancey	1924	1928
35	James J. O'Brien	1928	1932
36	William Thomas Congleton	1932	1934
37	Charles R. Thompson	1934	1935
38	E. Reed Wilson	1935	1940
39	T. Ward Havely	1940	1943
40	R. Mack Oldham	1943	1948
41	Thomas G. Mooney	1948	1952
42	Fred Fugazzi	1952	1956
43	Shelby C. Kinkead	1956	1960
44	Richard J. Colbert	1960	1964
45	Charles Wylie	1968	1971
46	H. Foster Pettit	1971	1974

Post-consolidation mayors

#	Mayor	Term start	Term end
1	H. Foster Pettit	1974	1977
2	James G. Amato	1978	1981
3	Scotty Baesler	1981	1992
4	Pam Miller	1993	2003
5	Teresa Isaac	2003	2006
6	Jim Newberry	2006	2011
7	Jim Gray	2011	2019
8	Linda Gorton	2019

References

1. Peter 1979, p. 271.
2. Wright 1982, p. 232.
3. Gillen 2010.
4. Kapos, Shia (December 8, 2021). "It's Kentucky Straight in Lexington City Hall". Politico. Archived from the original on September 12, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024. Mayor Linda Gorton is a registered Republican.

Sources

• Peter, Robert (1979). History of Fayette County, Kentucky. Southern Historical Press. ISBN 9780893081638.
• Wright, John Dean (1982). Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass. Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission. ISBN 9780912839066.
• Shawn Gillen (2010). "'The urge to merge:' the consolidation of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky". In Suzanne M. Leland; Kurt Thurmaier (eds.). City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-622-4.