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List of mayors of Charleston, South Carolina

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The mayor is the highest elected official in Charleston, South Carolina. Since the city's incorporation in 1783, Charleston's chief executive officer has been elected directly by qualified voters, except for the years 1867–1868, when mayors were appointed by Federal officials. The position was known as intendant until 1836, and has been known as "mayor" since that time. In 2012, the annual mayoral salary was $162,815.90.

Intendants and Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina

#	Mayor	Party	Sworn in	Left office	Comments
1	Richard Hutson		1783	1785
2	Arnoldus Vanderhorst		1785	1786
3	John Faucheraud Grimké		1786	1788
4	Rawlins Lowndes		1788	1789
5	Thomas Jones		1789	1790
(2)	Arnoldus Vanderhorst		1790	1792
6	John Huger		1792	1794
7	John Bee Holmes		1794	1795
8	John Edwards		1795	1797
9	Henry William de Saussure	Federalist	1797	1799	Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1791
Attorney, indigo planter and slave owner
10	Thomas Roper		1799	1801
11	John Ward		1801	1802
12	David Deas		1802	1803
13	John Drayton	Democratic-Republican	1803	1804
14	Thomas Winstanley		1804	1805
15	Charles Cochran		1805	1806
16	John Dawson Jr.		1806	1808
17	Benjamin Boyd		1808	1808
18	William Rouse		1808	1810
19	Thomas H. McCalla		1810	1812
20	Thomas Bennett Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1812	1813
21	Thomas Rhett Smith	Federalist	1813	1815
22	Elias Horry		1815	1817
23	John Geddes	Democratic-Republican	1817	1818	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature
Governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 1820
24	Daniel Stevens		1819	1820
(22)	Elias Horry		1820	1821
25	James Hamilton Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1821	1822	U.S. Representative from 1822 to 1829
Governor of South Carolina from 1830 to 1832
(23)	John Geddes	Democratic-Republican	1823	1824
26	Samuel Prioleau	Federalist	1824	1825
27	Joseph Johnson	Whig	1825	1827
28	John Gadsden		1827	1829	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature
29	Henry L. Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1829	1830
30	James R. Pringle	Democrat (Unionist)	1830	1831
(29)	Henry L. Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1831	1833
31	Edward W. North		1833	1836
32	Robert Young Hayne	Democrat (Nullifier)	1836	1837	U.S. Senator from 1823 to 1832
Governor of South Carolina from 1832 to 1834
First chief executive officer of Charleston known as Mayor of Charleston
(29)	Henry L. Pinckney	Democrat (Nullifier)	1837	1840
33	Jacob F. Mintzing	Democrat (Unionist)	1840	1842	Once a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature
34	John Schnierle	Democrat	1842	1846	2nd German-American mayor
Attorney
Major General with the 16th Regiment of South Carolina Militia
35	Thomas Leger Hutchinson	Democrat	1846	1850
(34)	John Schnierle	Democrat	1850	1852
(35)	Thomas Leger Hutchinson	Democrat	1852	1855
36	William Porcher Miles	Democrat	1855	1857
37	Charles Macbeth	Democrat	1857	1865
38	Peter Charles Gaillard	Democrat	1865	1868	Gaillard was a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army.
He was removed from office by Federal authorities.
39	William Wallace Burns	Military appointment	1868	1868
40	Milton Cogswell	Military appointment	1868	1868
41	George Washington Clark	Military appointment	1868	1868
42	Gilbert Pillsbury	Republican	1868	1871	Pillsbury was Charleston's Reconstruction mayor.
He made career with the Freedmen's Bureau.
43	Johann Andreas Wagener	Democrat	1871	1873	German-American and Lutheran mayor
Wagener had been a Confederate General. He founded St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1840 and is buried in its Bethany Cemetery.
44	George I. Cunningham	Republican	1873	1877
45	William W. Sale	Democrat	1877	1879
46	William Ashmead Courtenay	Democrat	1879	1887
47	George D. Bryan	Democrat	1887	1891
48	John F. Ficken	Democrat	1891	1895
49	James Adger Smyth	Democrat	1895	1903
50	R. Goodwyn Rhett	Democrat	1903	1911
51	John P. Grace	Democrat	1911	1915	1st Irish-American and Catholic mayor
The John P. Grace Memorial Bridge was named to honor him.
52	Tristram T. Hyde	Democrat	1915	1919
(51)	John P. Grace	Democrat	1919	1923
53	Thomas Porcher Stoney	Democrat	1923	1931
54	Burnet Rhett Maybank	Democrat	1931	1938	Governor of South Carolina from 1939 to 1941
U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1954
55	Henry Whilden Lockwood	Democrat	1938	1944
56	E. Edward Wehman Jr.	Democrat	1944	1947
57	William McG. Morrison	Democrat	1947	1959
58	J. Palmer Gaillard Jr.	Democrat	1959	1975
59	Arthur B. Schirmer Jr.	Democrat	1975	1975
60	Joseph P. Riley Jr.	Democrat	1975	2014	Riley was the city's longest serving executive and second Irish Catholic mayor.
61	John Tecklenburg	Democrat	2014	2023
62	William S. Cogswell Jr.	Republican	2023	Present	William was the first Republican mayor of Charleston since 1877.

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References

[http://www.HalseyMap.com/Flash/mayors.asp Charleston's Intendants and Mayors] {{webarchive. link. (December 17, 2010 .)
(January 1, 2012). "2012 Budget Salaries - City of Charleston". City of Charleston.
[http://www.uga.edu/colonialseminar/Hadden.pdf DeSaussure and Ford: A Charleston Law Firm of the 1790s, Sally Hadden, Florida State University]
"A Brief History, Pastor Cam Keyser, St Matthews Lutheran Church, Charleston, SC, June 5, 2007".

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