This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Mayor From To Party Notes Angus McNeill 1836 1839 None President of Shreve Town Co. John Octavius Sewall 1839 1840 Whig First Elected Mayor William Walton George, M.D. 1840 1840 Democratic Samuel W. Briggs 1841 1841 None William Walton George, M.D. 1842 1843 Democratic John N. Howell 1844 1844 Democratic Joseph Clinton Beall 1845 1845 Democratic Lawrence Pike Crain 1846 1847 Democratic Robert Nathaniel Wood 1847 1847 Whig/Know Nothing Died in Mexico John Morgan Landrum 1848 1848 Democratic Elected to Congress in 1859 Rev. John Bryce 1849 1849 Democratic Robert W. Cooke 1850 1850 Democratic Joseph Clinton Beall 1851 1853 Democratic John Wallace Jones 1854 1857 Democratic Jonas Robeson 1858 1858 Democratic John W. Pennall 1859 1859 Democratic Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 Jonas Robeson 1860 1861 Democratic Joseph Clinton Beall 1862 1863 Democratic John Gooch, Samuel Wells 1864 1865 Democratic Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells. Alexander Boarman 1866 1867 Republican. Appointed by Union. Lewis S. Markham 1867 1867 Dem. Served only one month. Martin Tally 1867 1868 Republican Appointed during reconstruction by Union. Jerome B. Gilmore 1869 1871 Republican Appointed during reconstruction by Union. William Rabun Shivers 1871 1871 Dem. Was killed before he was able to serve term. Moses Hodge Crowell 1871 1872 Republican Appointed by the Union. Joseph Taylor, M.D. 1872 1873 Dem. Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist) Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh 1872 1873 Republican Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. Samuel J. Ward 1874 1874 Democratic Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales. W. Nick Murphy 1875 1878 Republican/Democratic Switched from Republican to Democrat. Andrew Currie 1878 1889 Democratic Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland. Edward B. Herndon 1890 1890 Democratic Elected to fill unfinished term. Richard Tucker Vinson 1891 1895 Democratic Reuben Neil McKellar 1896 1900 Democratic Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens Benjamin Holzman 1900 1902 Democratic Born in Germany. Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. 1902 1906 Democratic Born in New Orleans. Ernest Ralph Berstein 1906 1908 Democratic Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. 1908 1910 Democratic John Henry Eastham, Jr. 1910 1914 Democratic First mayor under city commission government Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. 1914 1916 Democratic Robert Hodges Ward 1916 1918 Democratic Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward. John McWilliams Ford 1918 1922 Democratic Lee Emmett Thomas 1922 1930 Democratic Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916 J. G. Palmer 1930 1932 Democratic Louisiana State Judge. John McWilliams Ford 1932 1932 Democratic George W. Hardy, Jr. 1932 1934 Democratic Louisiana State Judge. Samuel S. Caldwell 1934 1946 Democratic Clyde E. Fant 1946 1954 Democratic James C. Gardner 1954 1958 Democratic Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954 Clyde E. Fant 1958 1970 Democratic Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor. L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. 1970 1978 Democratic William T. Hanna, Jr. 1978 1982 Democratic John Brennan Hussey 1982 1990 Democratic Hazel Beard 1990 1994 Republican First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era Robert W. "Bo" Williams 1994 1998 Republican Keith Hightower 1998 2006 Democratic Cedric B. Glover 2006 2014 Democratic First African-American mayor Ollie Tyler 2014 2018 Democratic First African-American female mayor Adrian Perkins 2018 2022 Democratic Tom Arceneaux 2022 Incumbent Republican

See also Timeline of Shreveport, Louisiana

References

External links Mayor of Shreveport Page Shreveport Mayoral Trivia