This is a list of people who have served as mayor of Rochester, Minnesota. All mayors are officially non-partisan.
No. Image Mayor Term 1 Moses W. Fay 1858–1859 2 Frederick Augustus Olds 1859–1860 3 William D. Hurlbut 1860–1861 4 John Clark 1861–1862 5 Lowell B. Bliss 1862–1864, 1868–1869 6 Abram Ozmun 1864–1865 7 John V. Daniels 1865–1866 8 Ozora P. Stearns 1866–1868 9 Daniel Heaney 1869–1870 10 Frederick Taft Olds 1870–1871 11 Orlan P. Whitcomb 1871–1872 12 George W. Van Dusen 1872–1873 13 Dennis H. Williams 1873–1875 14 Daniel A. Morrison 1875–1879 15 Lyman E. Cowdery 1879–1880 16 Samuel Whitten 1880–1882 17 Dr. William Worrall Mayo 1882–1883 18 Samuel Whitten 1883–1885 19 Orson Sage Porter 1885–1887 20 Andrew Nelson 1887–1889 21 Orson Sage Porter 1889–1890 22 Delbert Darling 1890–1892 23 Dr. Horace H. Witherstine 1892–1895 24 Dr. Wilson A. Allen 1895–1896 (23) Dr. Horace H. Witherstine 1896–189 25 Joseph H. Wagoner 1897–1898 25 Burt Winslow Eaton 1898–1899 27 James Arthur Melone 1899–1900 28 Dr. E. L. Sinclair 1900–1902 (23) Dr. Horace H. Witherstine 1902–1903 29 Archie C. Stevenson 1903–1905 30 Martin Heffron 1905–1907 31 Julius J. Reiter 1907–1909 32 J. C. Thompson 1909–1911 33 William B. Richardson 1911–1917 (31) Julius J. Reiter 1917–1919 34 C. D. Brown 1919–1923 (31) Julius J. Reiter 1923–1925 35 John T. Lemmon 1925–1927, 1930–1931 (34) C. D. Brown (died in office December 22, 1927) 1927 36 Fred W. Haase 1928–1929 (31) Julius J. Reiter 1931–1935 37 W. A. Moore 1935–1939 38 Paul Grassle 1939–1947 39 Claude H. McQuillan 1947–1951 40 Glenn O. Amundsen 1951–1953 (39) Claude H. McQuillan (died in office November 16, 1957) 1951–1957 41 Adolph M. Bach 1957–1958 42 Alexander P. Smetka 1958–1969 43 Dewey Day 1969–1973 (42) Alexander P. Smetka 1973–1979 44 Chuck Hazama 1979–1995 45 Chuck Canfield 1995–2003 46 Ardell Brede 2003–2019 47 Kim Norton 2019–present
References
Mayors of Rochester, Minnesota. The Political Graveyard. Alexander P. Smetka Minnesota State University Alumni Association. STEARNS, Ozora Pierson infoplease. Obit of Paul Grassle Rochester Post Bulletin/rootsweb. Rear Platform Remarks in Minnesota and Wisconsin The Public Papers of Harry S. Truman. Born in a Storm Mayo Clinic Robert Olds of Windsor and Suffield, CT and his descendants Rootsweb/Dan W. Olds Olmsted County History The Minnesota GenWeb Project/Olmsted County Genealogy Rochester Police Department History City of Rochester, Minnesota The History Center of Olmsted County Images of America Rochester, MN by Ted St. Mane