List of mayors of Macon, Georgia
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This is a list of mayors and intendents of the city of Macon, Georgia
Macon, Georgia
Macon is a city located in central Georgia, US. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and the county seat of Bibb County. A small portion of the city extends into Jones County. Macon is the biggest city in central Georgia...

 since its incorporation in 1823.

Intendents

  • David S. Booth (1824)
  • James H. Rogers (1825)
  • Edward Dorr Tracy (1826)
  • Washington Poe
    Washington Poe
    Washington Poe was an American Whig poliitician and lawyer from GeorgiaBorn in Augusta, Georgia, Poe studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar. In 1841, he was elected mayor of Macon, Georgia. He had been solicitor-general for the Macon circuit...

     (1827)
  • Robert Birdsong (1828)
  • Joseph Washburn (1829)
  • W. J. Dannelly (1830)
  • Isaac R. Rowland (1831)
  • Levi Eckley (1832)

Mayors

  • Isaac G. Seymour (1833-1834) elected by Board of Aldermen
  • Robert Augustus Beall (1835) 1st popularly elected
  • Isaac G. Seymour (1836-1839)
  • Washington Poe
    Washington Poe
    Washington Poe was an American Whig poliitician and lawyer from GeorgiaBorn in Augusta, Georgia, Poe studied law and was admitted to the Georgia bar. In 1841, he was elected mayor of Macon, Georgia. He had been solicitor-general for the Macon circuit...

     (1840-1841)
  • Frederick Sims (1842)
  • John J. Gresham (1843)
  • James A. Nisbet (1844-1845)
  • Isaac Holmes (1846)
  • John J. Gresham (1847)
  • George M. Logan (1848-1850)
  • James H. R. Washington (1851)
  • E. L. Strohecker (1852-1854)
  • Benjamin Franklin Ross (1855-1856)
  • A. B. Adams (1857)
  • Ovid G. Sparks (1858-1860) resigned September 18, 1860
  • Methvin S. Thompson (1860-1862) elected September 25, 1860
  • Ovid G. Sparks (1863)
  • Stephen Collins (1864-1866)
  • George S. Obear (1867-1870)
  • William A. Huff (1871-1879)
  • Felix Corput (1880-1883)
  • Sylvester B. Price (1884-1894)
  • Henry Horne (1895-1896)
  • Sylvester B. Price (1897)
  • Bridges Smith (1898-1907)
  • Alexander Lawton Miller (1908-1909)
  • John T. Moore (mayor) (1910-1913)
  • Bridges Smith (1914-1917)
  • Glover Glendenning Toole (1918-1921)
  • Luther Williams (1922-1925)
  • Wallace Miller (1926-1927)
  • Luther Williams (1928-1929)
  • Glover Glendenning Toole (1930-1933)
  • Herbert Ivan Smart (1934-1937)
  • Charles L. Bowden (1938-1947)
  • Lewis Burgess Wilson (1948-1953)
  • Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1954-1959)
  • Edgar H. Wilson (1960-1963)
  • Benjamin Franklin Merritt, Jr. (1964-1967)
  • Ronnie Thompson
    Ronnie Thompson (Georgia politician)
    Ronald John Thompson, known as Ronnie Thompson or Machine Gun Ronnie' Thompson , is a former Georgia Republican politician who was the first member of his party to have been elected mayor of Macon, the seat of Bibb County in central Georgia. Thompson served two controversial terms from 1967-1975...

     (1968-1975) 1st elected Republican mayor
  • Buckner F. Melton (1976-1979)
  • George Israel
    George Israel
    George M. Israel, III is the current president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and is a former mayor of Macon, Georgia , the sixth largest city in the state. He is also on the board of directors of YKK Group...

     (1980-1987) 2nd elected Republican mayor
  • Lee Robinson
    William Lee Robinson
    William Lee Robinson is a Democratic politician who was the mayor of Macon, Georgia from 1987–1991, and a four-term State Senator of Georgia...

     (1988-1991)
  • Tommy Olmstead (1992-1994)
  • David Carter (1995)
  • Jim Marshall
    Jim Marshall (U.S. politician)
    James Creel "Jim" Marshall is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

     (1996-2000)
  • C. Jack Ellis
    C. Jack Ellis
    Clearance Jack "C. Jack" Ellis, is the former mayor of Macon, Georgia.Prior to taking office, Ellis served 20 years in the United States Army as a paratrooper, then served 2 years in Vietnam as a combat soldier...

     (2000-2007) 1st African American mayor
  • Robert Reichert
    Robert Reichert
    Robert Reichert is the current Democratic mayor of Macon, Georgia, the sixth largest city in the state, located in the central portion of the state some seventy miles south of Atlanta...

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