List of mayors of Milwaukee

This is a list of mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following the election of Socialist Emil Seidel as mayor of Milwaukee in 1910, Wisconsin legislators passed a bill in 1912 to declare most local offices across the state as officially non-partisan.

List

	Portrait	Mayor	Party	Sworn in	Left office	Comments
1		Solomon Juneau	Democrat	1846	1846
2		Horatio Wells	Democrat	1847	1847
3		Byron Kilbourn	Democrat	1848	1848
4		Don A. J. Upham	Democrat	1849	1850
5		George H. Walker	Democrat	1851	1851
6		Hans Crocker	Democrat	1852	1852
7		George H. Walker	Democrat	1853	1853	His second, nonconsecutive term
8		Byron Kilbourn	Democrat	1854	1854	His second, nonconsecutive term
9		James B. Cross	Democrat	1855	1857
10		William A. Prentiss	Republican	1858	1859
11		Herman L. Page	Democrat	1859	1859
12		William Pitt Lynde	Democrat	1860	1860
13		James S. Brown	Democrat	1861	1861	Elected without opposition. Did not run for re-election.
14		Horace Chase	Democrat	1862	1862
15		Edward O'Neill	Democrat	1863	1863
16		Abner Kirby	Democrat	1864	1864
17		John J. Tallmadge	Democrat	1865	1866
18		Edward O'Neill	Democrat	1867	1870	His second, nonconsecutive term
19		Joseph Phillips	Democrat	1870	1871
20		Harrison Ludington	Republican	1871	1872
21		David G. Hooker	Democrat	1872	1873
22		Harrison Ludington	Republican	1873	1876	His second, nonconsecutive term
23		Ammi R. R. Butler	Democrat	1876	1878
24		John Black	Democrat	1878	1880
25		Thomas H. Brown	Republican	1880	1882
26		John M. Stowell	Democrat	1882	1884
27		Emil Wallber	Republican	1884	1888
28		Thomas H. Brown	Republican	1888	1890	His second, nonconsecutive term
29		George W. Peck	Democrat	1890	November 11, 1890	Resigned to become Governor of Wisconsin
30		Peter J. Somers	Democrat	December 6, 1890	June 5, 1893	Resigned after being elected to the House of Representatives
–		Henry Hase		June 5, 1893	July 1, 1893	Acting Mayor
31		John C. Koch	Republican	1893	1896
32		William C. Rauschenberger	Republican	1896	1898
33		David S. Rose	Democrat	1898	1906
34		Sherburn M. Becker	Republican	1906	1908
35		David S. Rose	Democrat	1908	1910	His second, nonconsecutive term
36		Emil Seidel	Socialist	1910	1912
37		Gerhard A. Bading	Republican-Democrat Fusion	1912	1916
38		Daniel Hoan	Socialist	1916	April 16, 1940
39		Carl Zeidler	Democrat	April 16, 1940	April 8, 1942	Resigned to fight in World War II, in which he was killed
40		John Bohn	Nonpartisan	April 8, 1942	April 20, 1948	Interim mayor until being officially elected in 1944
41		Frank Zeidler	Socialist	April 20, 1948	April 19, 1960
42		Henry Maier	Democrat	April 19, 1960	April 19, 1988
43		John Norquist	Democrat	April 18, 1988	January 1, 2004	Resigned to head the Congress for the New Urbanism
		Marvin Pratt	Democrat	January 1, 2004	April 20, 2004	Acting mayor, first African American mayor of Milwaukee
44		Tom Barrett	Democrat	April 20, 2004	December 22, 2021	Resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
45		Cavalier Johnson	Democrat	December 22, 2021	present	First elected African American mayor of Milwaukee