• James Enfield Berry (1840)
• Beriah Frazier (1841)
• Dr. Milo Smith (1842–1843)
• Dr. Joseph Strong Gillespie (1844–45)
• Henry White Massengale (1846–48)
• Thomas Crutchfield, Sr. (1849)
• Dr. Milo Smith (1850–52)
• Henry White Massengale (1853)
• William Williams (1854)
• William F. Ragsdale (1854)
• Eldridge Gerry Pearl (1855)
• David Claiborne McMillin (1856)
• William D. Fulton
  William D. Fulton
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   (1857)
• Dr. William Samuel Bell (1858)
• Thomas Crutchfield, Jr. (1859)
• Charles Erskine Grenville (1860)
• James Cartwright Warner (1861)
• Dr. Milo Smith (1862–63)
• Richard Henderson (1865)
• Charles E. Lewis (1866)
• Dudley C. Carr (1867–68)
• Alonzo G. Sharp (1869)
• William P. Rathburn (1870–71)
• John T. Wilder
  John T. Wilder
  John Thomas Wilder was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As an industrialist, he was instrumental in developing the natural resources of the State of Tennessee.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1871–72)
• Josiah Jackson Bryan (1872)
• Dr. Eli M. Wight (1873)
• Dr. Philander D. Sims (1874)
• John W. James (1875)
• Col. Tomlinson Fort, Jr.
  Tomlinson Fort (mayor)
  Tomlinson Fort was mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1876.Fort was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, the son of U.S. Representative Tomlinson Fort. He served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War...
  
   (Dem) (1876)
• Dr. Eli M. Wight (1877)
• Thomas J. Carlisle (1878)
• Andrew Jackson Gahagan (1878)
• Jesse Thomas Hill (1879)
• Henry Frederick Temple (1880)
• John A. Hart (1881)
• Henry Clay Evans (Rep) (1882–83)
• Hugh Whiteside (1883–85)
• Alonzo G. Sharpe (1885–87)
• John B. Nicklin (1887–89)
• John A. Hart (1889–91)
• Isaac B. Merriman (1891)
• Garnet Andrews (1891–1893)
• George W. Ochs
  George Oakes
  George Washington Ochs Oakes was an American journalist. Born George Washington Ochs, he legally added the surname "Oakes" in 1915 out of outrage at the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat.-Journalism career:Ochs was born to German-Jewish immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in...
  
   (1893–97)
• Edmund Watkins (1897–99)
• Joseph Wassman (1899–1901)
• William Little Frierson
  William L. Frierson
  William Little Frierson was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. During his career he served as the United States Solicitor General , United States Assistant Attorney General , and mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee .Frierson was born on September 3, 1868, in Shelbyville, Tennessee to Robert...
  
   (1901–05)
• William Riley Crabtree (1907–09)
• Thomas Clarkson Thompson (1909–15)
• Jesse M. Littleton (1915–19)
• Alexander Wilds Chambliss
  Alexander W. Chambliss
  Alexander Wilds Chambliss was the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1919 to 1923 and a Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. In 1946, he gave $30,000 to build the Alexander W. Chambliss Home in Chattanooga. Judge Chambliss was also a Freemason.-Sources:...
  
   (1919–23)
• Richard Hardy (1923–27)
• Edward Davis "E.D." Bass (Dem) (1927–47)
• Elijah Radford Betterton (1947)
• Hugh Wasson (1947–51)
• Peter Rudolph "Rudy" Olgiati (Dem) (1951–63)
• Ralph H. Kelley (1963–69)
• Austin Letheridge "Chunk" Bender
  Austin Letheridge Bender
  A. L. “Chunk” Bender was the mayor of the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1969 to 1971 after serving as Commissioner for many years. Due to health problems he declined a re-election bid...
  
   (Dem) (1969–71)
• S. Dean Peterson (1971)
• Robert Kirk Walker (1971–75)
• Charles A. “Pat” Rose (1975–83)
• Gene Roberts (1983–97)
• Jon Kinsey
  Jon Kinsey
  Jon Kinsey was mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. During his mayorship he is remembered primarily for his role in unsuccessfully trying to buy Tennessee-American Water Company, which provides the majority of water to Chattanooga. He is a Democrat.Kinsey came to Chattanooga at the...
  
   (1997–2001)
• Bob Corker
  Bob Corker
  Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he served as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2001 to 2005. Corker was a businessman prior to holding public office.-Early life and family:Born in Orangeburg, South...
  
   (Rep) (2001–05)
• Ron Littlefield
  Ron Littlefield
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  (Rep) (2005— )

Further reading

• "Mayor's Office: History of Mayors" — City of Chattanooga