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This is a list of mayors from Asheville, North Carolina. This position was originally called the chairman of the Board of Commissioners but changed to mayor in 1857.^[1]^[2] Asheville historian Foster Sondley wrote that no reports of elected officials were kept until 1845.^[3]

Mayors were traditionally elected in May; however, the term year is typically the year elected rather than the range from June to May. In the early years, mayors were elected for one-year terms. Later, terms were expanded to two years and, then, to four years. In 1915, the Board of Aldermen was changed to the Board of Commissioners.^[2]

Year in office	Mayor	Vice or assistant mayor	References
1842	James McConnell Smith		^[4]
18xx ?	James Washington Patton (1803–1861)		^[5]
1845	Isaac B. Sawyer		^[3]
July 24, 1849 – March 28, 1855	James McConnell Smith		^[1]^[2]^[a]
1857–1858	Isaac B. Sawyer		^[6]^[2]^[b]
1860	Edward James Aston		^[2]
1861	Isaac B. Sawyer		^[2]
1862–1866	Edward James Aston		^[7]^[8]
1866	Montroville Patton		^[2]^[c]
1866	J. M. Israel		^[2]
1867–1868	Oscar Eastman		^[9]^[2]^[d]
1868	S. G. Kerr		^[2]
1869	Thomas D. Johnston		^[10]^[11]^[12]
1870	M. E. Carter		^[2]
1871	John Jones		^[2]
1872–1874	J. E. Rankin		^[2]^[e]
1875	W. L. Hilliard		^[13]
1876	J. E. Rankin		^[2]
1877–1881	A. T. Summey		^[14]^[15]^[2]^[f]
1882–1883	Virgil S. Lusk		^[16]^[17]
1884–1886	Edward James Aston		^[18]^[19]^[8]
1887–1888	Herschel S. Harkins		^[20]^[21]
1889–1893	Charles D. Blanton		^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]
1893–1894	Thomas Walton Patton	Ed Hay	^[26]^[27]^[28]
1895	Theodore Fulton Davidson		^[29]^[30]
1896	William J. Cocke		^[31]^[32]
1897	J. E. Rankin		^[2]
1898	F. M. Miller		^[2]
1899–1900	W. A. Blair		^[33]^[2]
1901–1902	F. M. Miller		^[34]^[2]
1903–1904	C. T. Rawls		^[34]^[2]
1905–1906	Alfred Smith Barnard		^[34]^[2]
1907–1910	John A. Campbell		^[34]^[2]
1911–1919	J. E. Rankin		^[34]^[2]
1919–1923	Edward Gallatin Roberts		^[35]^[11]^[2]
1923–1927	John H. Cathey		^[2]
1927– December 11, 1930	Edward Gallatin Roberts		^[35]^[11]^[2]^[g]
December 1930	Harry W. Plummer		^[36]^[37]^[2]
1931–1933	Otis Green		^[38]^[2]
1933–1934	Wickes Wambolt	A. C. Avery	^[39]^[2]
1935–December 1938	Robert M. Wells	Holmes Bryson	^[2]^[40]^[h]
December 1938–1941	Holmes Bryson	L. Lyons Lee	^[2]^[40]^[41]^[42]
1941–1947	L. Lyons Lee	James E. Divelbiss	^[2]^[43]
1947–1951	Clarence E. Morgan	Fred L. Seeley Jr. (1947–1948)	^[44]^[2]
1951–1969	Earl W. Eller		^[11]^[2]^[45]
1969–1971	Wayne S. Montgomery		^[45]
1971–1975	Richard A. Wood Jr.	Calvin W. Marshall	^[45]
1975–1977	Eugene C. Ochsenreiter	Bill B. Horton	^[45]
1977–1983	Roy Trantham	Bill B. Horton (1977–1978)	^[45]^[46]^[47]
		Ralph D. Morris (1979–1981)
		Norma Price (1981–1982)
1983–1984	Larry McDevitt	Wilhelmina Bratton	^[45]^[47]
1985–1988	W. Louis Bissette	Mary Lloyd Frank (1985–1986)	^[45]^[47]
1985–1988	W. Louis Bissette	Kenneth Michalove (1987–1988)	^[45]^[47]
1989–1992	Kenneth M. Michalove	William G. Moore (1989–1990)	^[45]^[47]
1989–1992	Kenneth M. Michalove	Eugene W. Ellison (1991–1992)	^[45]^[47]
1993–1996	Russell Martin	Chris Peterson (1993–1994)	^[45]^[47]
1993–1996	Russell Martin	Barbara Field (1995–1996)	^[45]^[47]
1997–2001	Leni Sitnick	Edward C. Hay Jr.	^[48]^[45]^[49]^[47]
1997–2001	Leni Sitnick	M. Charles Cloninger (1999–2000)
2001–2005	Charles Worley	Terry Bellamy (2001–2002)
2001–2005	Charles Worley	R. Carl Mumpower (2003–2004)
2005–2013	Terry Bellamy	Holly Jones (2005–2006)	^[45]^[50]^[51]^[47]
		Jan Davis (2007–December 2010)
		Brownie Newman (December 2010–2011)
		Esther Manheimer (2012–2013)
2013–present (2023)	Esther Manheimer	Marc Hunt (2013–2015)	^[52]^[53]^[54]^[47]
		Gwen Wisler (2015–2019)
		Sheneika Smith (2021)
		Sandra Kilgore (2022–2023)

Notes

^ Smith's title was chairman of the Board of Commissioners.
^ In 1857, Sawyer became the first to have the title mayor.
^ Patton resigned before the end of his term.
^ Eastman resigned before the end of his term.
^ Rankin was elected in 1872 and re-elected in 1873 and 1874.
^ Summey was elected in 1877, 1879, 1889, and 1881.
^ Roberts resigned before the end of his term.
^ Wells resigned before the end of his term to become the solicitor of the 19th District.

References

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