The post of Mayor of the City of New Orleans () has been held by the following individuals since New Orleans came under American administration following the Louisiana Purchase — the 1803 acquisition by the U.S. of of the French province La Louisiane. In all mayoral elections since 1930, New Orleans has used a two-round system with a preliminary round and a runoff if no candidate reached a majority in the first round. All mayors of New Orleans since 1872 have belonged to the Democratic Party.
List of mayors Mayor Took office Left office Tenure Party Election 1 Étienne de Boré Independent 2 Cavelier Petit Independent – 3 James Pitot Independent 4 John Watkins Independent 5 James Mather Independent 6 Charles Trudeau Independent – 7 Nicholas GirodGirod administration at New Orleans Public Library site , accessed 09 Sept 2015. Democratic-Republican TBA 8 François Joseph LeBreton Dorgenois Democratic-Republican – Nicholas Girod Democratic-Republican TBA 9 Augustin de Macarty Democratic-Republican TBA 10 Louis Philippe de Roffignac Democratic-Republican TBA 11 Denis Prieur Jacksonian TBA 12 Paul Bertus Independent – 13 Charles GenoisGenois administration at New Orleans Public Library site, accessed 09 Sept 2015. Whig TBA 14 William FreretJohn Kendall's History of New Orleans, 1922, Chapter IX, accessed 22 Nov 2015. Native American TBA Denis Prieur Democratic TBA Paul Bertus Independent – William Freret Whig TBA 15 Joseph Edgard Montegut Democratic TBA 16 Abdiel Crossman Whig TBA 17 John L. Lewis Democratic TBA 18 Charles M. Waterman American TBA 19 Henry M. SummersThomas Watkins Campbell, Manual of the city of New Orleans, comprising city charter of 1896, New Orleans, Louisiana City Council American – 20 Gerald Stith American TBA 21 John T. Monroe Constitutional Union TBA Acting military mayors during American Civil War and Reconstruction era – George Foster Shepley colspan="3" – Jonas H. French colspan="3" – Godfrey Weitzel colspan="3" – John T. Monroe colspan="3" – James F. Miller colspan="3" – Stephen Hoyt colspan="3" – Hugh Kennedy colspan="3" – Samuel Miller Quincy colspan="3" – Glendy Burke colspan="3" – Hugh Kennedy colspan="3" – J. A. D. Rozier colspan="3" – George Clark colspan="3" Office resumed following Reconstruction John T. Monroe Democratic 1866 22 Edward Heath Republican TBA 23 John R. Conway Democratic 1868 24 Benjamin Flanders Republican 25 Louis A. Wiltz Democratic 1872 26 Charles J. Leeds Democratic 1874 27 Edward Pilsbury Democratic(Ring) 1876 28 Isaac W. Patton Democratic(Ring) 1878 29 Joseph A. Shakspeare Democratic(Reform) 1880 30 William J. Behan Democratic(Ring) 1882 31 J. Valsin Guillotte Democratic(Ring) 1884 1886 Joseph A. Shakspeare Democratic(Reform) 1888 1890 32 John Fitzpatrick Democratic(Ring) 1892 1894 33 Walter C. Flower Democratic(Reform) 1896 1898 34 Paul Capdevielle Democratic(Ring) 1900 1902 35 Martin Behrman Democratic(Ring) 1904 1908 1912 1916 36 Andrew J. McShane Democratic(Reform) 1920 Martin Behrman Democratic(Ring) 1925 37 Arthur J. O'Keefe Democratic(Ring) – 38 T. Semmes Walmsley Democratic(Ring) – 1930 1934 39 A. Miles Pratt Democratic(Ring) – 40 Fred A. Earhart Democratic(Ring) – 41 Jesse S. Cave Democratic(Ring) – 42 Robert Maestri Democratic(Longite-Ring) 1936 1938 1942 43 deLesseps Story Morrison Democratic(Reform) 1946 1950 1954 1958 44 Victor H. Schiro Democratic – 1962 1965 45 Moon Landrieu Democratic 1969–70 1973 46 Ernest Nathan Morial Democratic 1977 1982 47 Sidney Barthelemy Democratic 1986 1990 48 Marc Morial Democratic 1994 1998 49 Ray Nagin Democratic 2002 2006 50 Mitch Landrieu Democratic 2010 2014 51 LaToya Cantrell Democratic 2017 2021 52 Helena Moreno Incumbent Democratic 2025
Notes
Further reading "Administrations of the Mayors of New Orleans, 1803-1936" by E. D. Friedrichs, Archives of the City of New Orleans
See also
New Orleans City Council New Orleans mayoral elections Timeline of New Orleans
References