The mayor of Danville, Virginia, United States, is selected by the nine-member Danville City Council from among its members. The mayor and vice mayor serve two-year terms, while council members are elected at large to staggered four-year terms.
The office dates to at least 1833; Alonzo L. Jones, who became mayor in 2018, was identified by the city as the 43rd person to hold the office. Jones was selected for another two-year term by the City Council in January 2025.
Mayors James T. Lanier was elected as Danville's first mayor in 1833. Jane Gray Hagan's 1950 history of Danville lists Nathaniel T. Green, Thomas Rawlins, John Dickenson, Thomas P. Atkinson, R. W. Williams, Samuel C. Brewer, Hobson Johns, Ptolomy L. Watkins and A. W. C. Terry among the city's early mayors, but does not provide individual terms of office for them.
MayorTerm in officeRefT. H. C. Grasty1851-1855William T. Sutherlin1855-1861W. T. Clark1862-1864James M. Walker1865J. B. Lowry1866-1867H. W. Cole1868-1874James C. Luck1874-1878George C. Ayres1878-1879John H. Johnston1882-1884W. P. Graves1884R. V. Barksdale1884-1888W. H. "Harry" Wooding1892-1938Edmund B. Meade1938-1940W. E. Gardner1940-1944Don H. Wilson1945-1947Everett E. Carter1947-1951Curtis V. Bishop1952-1956Charles H. Harris1980-1984Samuel Kushner1984-1986Seward Anderson1986-1996E. Linwood Wright1996-1998Ruby B. Archie1998-2000John C. Hamlin2000-2006R. Wayne Williams Jr.2006-2007Sherman M. Saunders2008-2016John B. Gilstrap2016-2018Alonzo L. Jones2018-present
See also Danville Municipal Building Danville history
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