Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois

Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois

The office of Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois has existed since the Rock Island's incorporation in 1841 with Benjamin Barrett serving as the city's first mayor. Rock Island adopted a Mayor-Council form of government. It held that form of government for the next 110 years when in 1952 the city adopted a new popular form of city government, the council-manager form. Carl F. Bauer was elected as the first mayor under this form in 1953. This form of government still elected a mayor but the mayor is nothing more than a figurehead where as the true power lay in the hands of the City Council and City Manager.

The Rock Island mayoralty is a ceremonial position that is often used as a stepping stone for higher political office. Most of Rock Island's mayors did not go far past the mayoralty but a few did, mostly running for State Representative, State Senator, and U.S. Congress. Rock Island held partisan election throughout much of its history. For a brief time from 19111923, Rock Island's mayor served as a non-partisan mayor then again in 1923 the City went back to partisan elections. The Republican Party has dominated the mayoralty, the city had more Republican mayors than Democratic mayors. In 1953 when the city adopted the Council-Manager form of government the city once again went to non-partisan elections and it continues to this day.

In 1984 a referendum appeared on the city ballot asking whether voters wanted to adopted partisan elections or continue with non-partisan elections, the referendum was defeated by an overwhelming margin.

Rock Island mayors

Rock Island's mayors since the city's first mayoral election in 1849:

In office Mayor
18491850 Benjamin Barrett
18501851 Joshua Hatch
18511852 Patrick Whitaker
18521854 William Frizzell
18541855 Ben Harper
18551856 Benjamin Barrett
18561857 William Bailey
18571858 Patrick Gregg
18581860 Thomas Bulford
18601861 Calvin Truesdale
18611866 Bailey Davenport
18661867 Calvin Truesdale
1867 B. H. Kimball
18671868 William Eggleston
18681869 Thomas Murdock
18691870 James Buford
18701871 Porter Skinner
18711872 Elijah Carter
18721873 Thomas Murdock
18731874 Bailey Davenport
18741875 Thomas Gaft
18751876 Bailey Davenport
18761878 William Butler
18781880 Elisha Reynolds
18801883 Henry Carse
18831885 James Z. Mott
18851887 Thomas Murdock
18871889 Virgil M. Blanding
18891893 William McConochie
18931895 Thomas J. Medill, Jr.
18951897 B. Frank Knox
18971899 Thomas J. Medill, Jr.
18991901 William McConochie
19011903 B. Frank Knox
19031905 William McConochie
19051907 George W. McCaskrin
19071909 Harry C. Schaffer
19091911 George W. McCaskrin
19111915 Harry M. Shriver
19151918 William McConochie
19191923 Harry M. Shriver
19231927 Walter A. Rosenfield
19271933 Chester C. Thompson
1933 Clarence Hodson
1933 Herman Brown
19341935 John Graham
1935 Charles Johnson
19351937 John Bengston
19371945 Robert P. Galbraith
19451953 Melvin McKay
19531957 Carl F. Bauer
19571961 Warren Yerger
19611965 Morris E. Muhleman
19651977 James H. Haymaker
19771978 Alan A. Campbell
19781985 James R. Davis
19851989 Robert Millett
19892009 Mark Schwiebert
2009present Dennis Pauley

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