List of mayors of Saint Paul, Minnesota

Mayor of St. Paul
Mayor of St. Paul
	Incumbent; Melvin Carter; since January 2, 2018
Seat	Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Term length	4 years
Formation	1850
First holder	Thomas R. Potts

This is a list of people who have served as mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Parties

Democratic Democratic–Farmer–Labor Republican Farmer–Labor Independent

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	Thomas R. Potts	1850	1851	Independent
2	Robert Kennedy	1851	1852	Independent
3	Bushrod W. Lott	1852	1854	Democratic
4	David Olmsted	1854	1855	Democratic
5	Alexander Ramsey	1855	1856	Republican^[1]^[2]
6	George Loomis Becker	1856	1857	Democratic
7	John B. Brisbin	1857	1858	Democratic
8	Norman Wolfred Kittson	1858	1859	Democratic
9	Daniel A. Robertson	1859	1860	Democratic
10	John S. Prince	1860	1863	Democratic
11	John E. Warren	1863	1864	Democratic
12	Jacob H. Stewart	1864	1865	Republican
13	John S. Prince	1865	1867	Democratic
14	George L. Otis	1867	1868	Democratic
15	Jacob H. Stewart	1868	1869	Republican
16	James T. Maxfield	1869	1870	Democratic
17	William Lee	1870	1872	Democratic
18	Jacob H. Stewart	1872	1875	Republican
19	James T. Maxfield	1875	1878	Democratic
20	William Dawson	1878	1881	Democratic
21	Edmund Rice	1881	1883	Democratic
22	Christopher D. O'Brien	1883	1885	Democratic
23	Edmund Rice	1885	1887	Democratic
24	Robert A. Smith	1887	1892	Democratic
25	Frederick P. Wright	1892	1894	Republican
26	Robert A. Smith	1894	1896	Democratic
27	Frank Doran	1896	1898	Republican
28	Andrew Kiefer	1898	1900	Republican
29	Robert A. Smith	1900	1908	Democratic
30	Daniel W. Lawler	1908	1910	Democratic
31	Herbert P. Keller	1910	1914	Republican
32	Winn Powers	1914	1916	Democratic
33	Vivian R. Irvin	1916	1918	Republican
34	Laurence C. Hodgson	1918	1922	Democratic
35	Arthur E. Nelson	1922	1926	Republican
36	Laurence C. Hodgson	1926	1930	Democratic
37	Gerhard J. Bundlie	1930	1932	Independent
38	William Mahoney	1932	1934	Farmer-Labor
39	Mark H. Gehan	1934	1938	Independent
40	William H. Fallon	1938	1940	Independent
41	John J. McDonough	1940	1948	Democratic/DFL^[3]
42	Edward K. Delaney	1948	1952	DFL
43	John E. Daubney	1952	1954	Independent
44	Joseph E. Dillon	1954	1960	DFL
45	George J. Vavoulis	1960	1966	Independent
46	Thomas R. Byrne	1966	1970	DFL
47	Charles P. McCarty	1970	1972	DFL
48	Lawrence D. Cohen	1972	1976	DFL
49	George Latimer	1976	1990	DFL
50	James Scheibel	1990	1994	DFL
51	Norm Coleman	1994	1996	DFL
51	Norm Coleman	1996	2002	Republican
52	Randy Kelly	2002	January 3, 2006	Independent
53	Chris Coleman	January 3, 2006	January 2, 2018	DFL
54	Melvin Carter III	January 2, 2018	Incumbent	DFL

References

"St. Paul Mayors" (PDF). Saint Paul Public Library. Archived from the original on November 2, 2004. Retrieved 2007-10-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
"Mayors of St. Paul, Minnesota". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2007-10-03.

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Mayor of St. Paul
Incumbent Melvin Carter since January 2, 2018
Seat	Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Term length	4 years
Formation	1850
First holder	Thomas R. Potts