Mayor of Wichita, Kansas

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Mayor of Wichita, Kansas

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Mayor of the City of Wichita
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Incumbent Lily Wu since January 8, 2024
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Edwin Bird Allen
Formation	1871
Website	Mayor's Office

The mayor of the City of Wichita is the head of the executive branch of the Wichita, Kansas city government. The mayor serves a four-year term and is limited to two successive terms.^[1]

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Following is a list of mayors of the American city of Wichita, Kansas.^[2] As of 2024, there have been 81 people who have served as mayor of Wichita in 103 administrations excluding one honorary mayor.

Number	Person	Mayor	Years	Notes
1	1	Edwin Bird Allen	1871–1872	Elder brother of mayor Joseph P. Allen^[3]
2	2	James G. Hope (1st term)	1873–1874	^[3]
3	3	George E. Harris	1875	^[3]
4	(2)	James G. Hope (2nd term)	1876–1877	^[3]
5	4	William Greiffenstein (1st term)	1878	^[3]
6	5	Sol H. Kohn	1879	First Jewish mayor of Wichita^[3]
7	(4)	William Greiffenstein (2nd term)	1879–1884	^[3]
8	6	Benajah W. Aldrich	1885–1886	^[3]
9	7	Joseph P. Allen	1887–1888	^[3]
10	8	George W. Clement	1889–1890	^[3]
11	9	John B. Carey	1891–1892	^[3]
12	10	Lindley Murray Cox	1893–1896	^[3]
13	11	Finlay Ross (1st term)	1897–1900	^[3]
14	12	Benjamin Franklin McLean (1st term)	1901–1904	^[4]^[3]
15	(11)	Finlay Ross (2nd term)	1905–1906	^[3]
16	13	John H. Graham (1st term)	1907–1908	^[3]
17	14	Charles Lock Davidson	1909–1910	^[3]
18	(13)	John H. Graham (2nd term)	April 1911 – Sept 1911	Lost recall election in September 1911^[3]
19	15	William Walter Minick	1911–1912	^[3]
20	16	William Jasper Babb	1913–1914	^[3]
21	17	Orsemus Hills Bentley	1915–1916	^[3]
22	18	Lewis William Clapp	1917–1919	Resigned on October 3, 1919 to become City Manager^[5]
23	19	John Lee Powell	1919–1920	^[5]
24	20	Wallace C. Kemp	1921–1922	^[5]
25	21	George Henry Hamilton	1922	^[5]
26	22	William Coffin Coleman	1922–1923	^[5]
27	(12)	Benjamin Franklin McLean (2nd term)	1923–1924	^[5]
28	23	Frank Leslie Dunn (1st term)	1924–1925	^[5]
29	24	Ben F. Copley	1925–1926	^[5]
30	25	Frank Nighswonger (1st term)	1926–1927	^[5]
31	26	A.J. Coombs	1927–1928	^[5]
32	(23)	Frank Leslie Dunn (2nd term)	1928–1929	^[5]
33	27	Charles S. Lawrence (1st term)	1929–1930	^[5]
34	28	Herman A. Hill	1930–1931	^[5]
35	(25)	Frank Nighswonger (2nd term)	1931–1932	^[5]
36	29	Harry D. Cottman	1932–1933	^[5]
37	(27)	Charles S. Lawrence (2nd term)	1933–1934	^[5]
38	30	James Schuyler Crawford	1934–1935	^[5]
39	(25)	Frank Nighswonger (3rd term)	1935–1936	^[5]
40	31	Robert E. Israel	1936–1937	^[5]
41	32	T. Walker Weaver	1937–1938	^[5]
42	33	Elmer R. Corn (1st term)	1938–1939	^[5]
43	34	Frank W. Coleman (1st term)	1939–1940	^[5]
44	(33)	Elmer R. Corn (2nd term)	1940–1941	^[5]
45	35	John I. Dotson	1941–1942	^[5]
46	36	Odom Farrell Sullivan	1942–1943	^[5]
47	37	Eugene Calendar Moriarty	1943–1944	^[5]
48	38	Herman William Beuttel	1944–1945	^[5]
49	39	Phil H. Manning	1945–1946	^[5]
50	(34)	Frank W. Coleman (2nd term)	1946–1947	^[5]
51	40	Charles S. Ritchie	1947–1948	^[5]
52	41	Louis August Donnell (1st term)	1948–1949	^[5]
53	42	William Christian Salome, Jr. (1st term)	1949–1950	^[5]
54	43	Earl K. Duke	1950–1951
55	44	Floyd Throckmorton Amsden	1951–1952
56	45	Frank Russell Jump	1952–1953
57	46	Walter M. Keeler	1953–1954
58	(42)	William Christian Salome Jr.	1954 (2nd term)	^[5]
59	(41)	Louis August Donnell (2nd term)	1954–1955	^[5]
60	47	Claude M. DeVorss	1955–1956
61	48	Hugh David Lester	1956
62	49	Alfred E. Howse	1956–1957
63	50	Elzie E. Baird	1957–1958
64	51	James L. Gardner	1958–1959
65	52	Justus H. Fugate	1959–1960
66	53	Levi Budd Rymph	1960–1961
67	54	Herbert Piper Lindsley	1961–1962
68	55	Carl A. Bell, Jr.	1962–1963
69	56	Gerald F. Byrd	1963–1964
70	57	Vincent L. Bogart	1964–1965
71	58	William D. Tarrant	1965–1966
72	59	John S. Stevens	1966–1967
73	60	Clarence Eldert Vollmer	1967–1968
74	61	William D. Anderson Jr.	1968–1969
75	62	Donald K. Enoch	1969–1970
76	63	A. Price Woodard Jr.	1970–1971	First African–American mayor.^[6]
77	64	Jack H. Greene	1971–1972
78	65	Glenn J. "Jack" Shanahan	1972–1973
79	66	James M. Donnell (1st term)	1973–1974
80	67	Garry L. Porter	1974–1975
81	68	Connie Ames Peters Kennard (1st term)	1975–1976	First woman commissioner and first woman mayor^[7]
82	(66)	James M. Donnell (2nd term)	1976–1977
83	69	Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (1st term)	1977–1978	First Latino (Cuban) mayor of Wichita
84	(68)	Connie Ames Peters Kennard (2nd term)	1978–1979
85	(69)	Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (2nd term)	1979–1980
86	70	Robert G. Knight (1st term)	1980–1981
87	71	Robert C. Brown (1st term)	1981–1982
88	72	Albert J. Kirk	1982–1983
89	73	Margalee Wright	1983–1984
90	(70)	Robert G. Knight (2nd term)	1984– April 9, 1985
x	x	Kathlien Edmiston (honorary)	April 9, 1985 – April 9, 1985	Edmiston was elected in a 3-1 vote to the City Commission on February 12, 1985 to serve the remaining two-month term through April 9 of commissioner Margalee Wright who resigned to serve on the Kansas Corporation Commission.^[8] Mayor Robert Knight resigned on April 2, 1985^[9] in order for Edmiston to hold the office of mayor until the swearing of two new commissioners^[10] so that she might have the honor of serving as mayor. Knight was unaware that he was required to provide a week's notice making April 9 the earliest she could be sworn in, the same day the new commissioners took office. She was sworn in on April 9.^[10] After the newly elected commissioners were sworn in shortly after, a vote was held and Robert C. Brown was elected as the next mayor.^[10] Edmiston held the office of mayor for approximately 30 minutes.^[10]
91	(71)	Robert C. Brown (2nd term)	1985–1986
92	(69)	Antonio F. "Tony" Casado (3rd term)	1986–1987
93	(70)	Robert G. Knight (3rd term)	1987–1988
94	74	Sheldon Kamen	1988–1989
95	(70)	Robert G. Knight (4th term)	1989–1992
96	75	Frank M. Ojile	1992–1993
97	76	Elma Broadfoot	1993–1995	^[11]^[12]
98	(70)	Robert G. Knight (5th term)	1995–2003
99	77	Carlos Mayans	2003–2007
100	78	Carl Brewer	2007–2015	First elected African–American mayor
101	79	Jeff Longwell	2015–2020
102	80	Brandon Whipple	2020–2024
103	81	Lily Wu	2024-Present	First elected Asian-American mayor