This is a list of mayors of
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...
. The list includes people serving in the equivalent position of president, in the city's early history.
*Presidents, Town Board of Trustees (1878–1909)
**Abel Whitton (
Workingman's Party
The Workingmen's Party of California (WPC) was an American labor organization, founded in 1877 and led by Denis Kearney, J.G Day, and H. L. Knight.
Organizational history
As a result of heavy unemployment from the 1873-78 national depression, ...
) 1878–1881
**A. McKinstry 1881–1883
**W.C. Wright (Republican) 1883–1885
**J.B. Henley 1885–1887
**Henry L. Whitney 1887–1889
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Samuel Heywood / Joseph L. Scotchler (Republican) 1889–1891
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Reuben Rickard (Republican) 1891–1893
**Byron E. Underwood / Martin J. Acton / Charles S. Preble 1893–1895
**Reuben Rickard (Republican) 1895
**John W. Richards 1895–1899
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William H. Marston 1899–1903
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Thomas Rickard (Republican) 1903–1909
*Mayors
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Beverly L. Hodghead (Democrat) 1909–1911
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J. Stitt Wilson (
Socialist
Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...
) 1911–1913
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Charles D. Heywood (Republican) 1913–1915
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Samuel C. Irving (Democrat) 1915–1919
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Louis Bartlett (Republican) 1919–1923
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Frank D. Stringham (Republican) 1923–1927
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Michael B. Driver Michael Branner Driver (1868–1942) was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1927 to 1930, and Sheriff of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, Alameda County, from 1930 to 1939. He resigned as Mayor of Berkeley when he was appointed Sheriff, replaci ...
(Republican) 1927–1930
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Thomas E. Caldecott (Republican) 1930–1932
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Edward N. Ament (Republican) 1932–1939
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Frank S. Gaines (Republican) 1939–1943
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Fitch Robertson (Republican) 1943–1946
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Carrie L. Hoyt (Republican) 1947 (January–April)
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Laurance L. Cross (Democrat) 1947–1955
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Claude B. Hutchison (Republican) 1955–1963
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Wallace Johnson (Republican) 1963–1971
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Warren Widener
Warren Hamilton Widener (25 March 1938 – 25 June 2013) was a former Mayor of Berkeley, California, and former member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. He was the first African American mayor of Berkeley, serving two terms from 19 ...
(Democrat) 1971–1979, first African-American mayor
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Gus Newport
Eugene "Gus" Newport was the mayor of Berkeley, California, from 1979 to 1986. More recently he worked to help the Gulfport, Mississippi, community rebuild in the wake of damage from Hurricane Katrina. He was the second African American mayor of ...
, (Berkeley Citizens Action) 1979–1986
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Loni Hancock
Loni Hancock (born Ilona Harrington; April 10, 1940) is an American politician and a former member of the California State Senate. A Democrat, she represented the 9th Senate District, which encompasses the northern East Bay.
Hancock has bee ...
, (Berkeley Citizens Action) 1986–1994
**Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter, 1994 (March–December)
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Shirley Dean
Shirley Ann Dean (née Bryant; born 1935-36), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California (1994-2002). Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berke ...
, (Berkeley Democrat Club) 1994–2002
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Tom Bates
Thomas H. Bates (born February 9, 1938) was the 21st mayor of Berkeley, California, and a member of the California State Assembly. Bates is married to Loni Hancock, another former mayor of Berkeley and State Assembly member who served in the ...
, 2002–2016
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Jesse Arreguín
Jesse Arreguín (born September 4, 1984) is an American politician serving as mayor of Berkeley, California. He served on the Berkeley Housing Commission and Rent Stabilization Board from 2004 to 2009 and represented District 4 on the Berkeley ...
, 2016–
External links
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