| Mayor |
From |
To |
Party |
Notes
|
| Angus McNeill |
1836 |
1839 |
None |
President of Shreve Town Co.
|
| John Octavius Sewall |
1839 |
1840 |
Whig |
First Elected Mayor
|
| William Walton George, M.D. |
1840 |
1840 |
Democratic |
|
| Samuel W. Briggs |
1841 |
1841 |
None |
|
| William Walton George, M.D. |
1842 |
1843 |
Democratic |
|
| John N. Howell |
1844 |
1844 |
Democratic |
|
| Joseph Clinton Beall |
1845 |
1845 |
Democratic |
|
| Lawrence Pike Crain |
1846 |
1847 |
Democratic |
|
| Robert Nathaniel Wood |
1847 |
1847 |
Whig/Know Nothing |
Died in Mexico
|
| John Morgan Landrum |
1848 |
1848 |
Democratic |
Elected to Congress in 1859
|
| Rev. John Bryce |
1849 |
1849 |
Democratic |
|
| Robert W. Cooke |
1850 |
1850 |
Democratic |
|
| Joseph Clinton Beall |
1851 |
1853 |
Democratic |
|
| John Wallace Jones |
1854 |
1857 |
Democratic |
|
| Jonas Robeson |
1858 |
1858 |
Democratic |
|
| John W. Pennall |
1859 |
1859 |
Democratic |
Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861
|
| Jonas Robeson |
1860 |
1861 |
Democratic |
|
| Joseph Clinton Beall |
1862 |
1863 |
Democratic |
|
| John Gooch, Samuel Wells |
1864 |
1865 |
Democratic |
Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells.
|
| Alexander Boarman |
1866 |
1867 |
Republican. |
Appointed by Union.
|
| Lewis S. Markham |
1867 |
1867 |
Dem. |
Served only one month.
|
| Martin Tally |
1867 |
1868 |
Republican |
Appointed during reconstruction by Union.
|
| Jerome B. Gilmore |
1869 |
1871 |
Republican |
Appointed during reconstruction by Union.
|
| William Rabun Shivers |
1871 |
1871 |
Dem. |
Was killed before he was able to serve term.
|
| Moses Hodge Crowell |
1871 |
1872 |
Republican |
Appointed by the Union.
|
| Joseph Taylor, M.D. |
1872 |
1873 |
Dem. |
Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist)
|
| Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh |
1872 |
1873 |
Republican |
Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor.
|
| Samuel J. Ward |
1874 |
1874 |
Democratic |
Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales.
|
| W. Nick Murphy |
1875 |
1878 |
Republican/Democratic |
Switched from Republican to Democrat.
|
| Andrew Currie |
1878 |
1889 |
Democratic |
Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland.
|
| Edward B. Herndon |
1890 |
1890 |
Democratic |
Elected to fill unfinished term.
|
| Richard Tucker Vinson |
1891 |
1895 |
Democratic |
|
| Reuben Neil McKellar |
1896 |
1900 |
Democratic |
Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens
|
| Benjamin Holzman |
1900 |
1902 |
Democratic |
Born in Germany.
|
| Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. |
1902 |
1906 |
Democratic |
Born in New Orleans.
|
| Ernest Ralph Berstein |
1906 |
1908 |
Democratic |
|
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. |
1908 |
1910 |
Democratic |
|
| John Henry Eastham, Jr. |
1910 |
1914 |
Democratic |
First mayor under city commission government
|
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. |
1914 |
1916 |
Democratic |
|
| Robert Hodges Ward |
1916 |
1918 |
Democratic |
Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward.
|
| John McWilliams Ford |
1918 |
1922 |
Democratic |
|
| Lee Emmett Thomas |
1922 |
1930 |
Democratic |
Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916
|
| J. G. Palmer |
1930 |
1932 |
Democratic |
Louisiana State Judge.
|
| John McWilliams Ford |
1932 |
1932 |
Democratic |
|
| George W. Hardy, Jr. |
1932 |
1934 |
Democratic |
Louisiana State Judge.
|
| Samuel S. Caldwell |
1934 |
1946 |
Democratic |
|
| Clyde E. Fant |
1946 |
1954 |
Democratic |
|
| James C. Gardner |
1954 |
1958 |
Democratic |
Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954
|
| Clyde E. Fant |
1958 |
1970 |
Democratic |
Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor.
|
| L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. |
1970 |
1978 |
Democratic |
|
| William T. Hanna, Jr. |
1978 |
1982 |
Democratic |
|
| John Brennan Hussey |
1982 |
1990 |
Democratic |
|
| Hazel Beard |
1990 |
1994 |
Republican |
First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era
|
| Robert W. "Bo" Williams |
1994 |
1998 |
Republican |
|
| Keith Hightower |
1998 |
2006 |
Democratic |
|
| Cedric B. Glover |
2006 |
2014 |
Democratic |
First African-American mayor
|
| Ollie Tyler |
2014 |
2018 |
Democratic |
First African-American female mayor
|
| Adrian Perkins |
2018 |
2022 |
Democratic |
|
| Martin Thomas “Tom” Arceneaux |
2022 |
Incumbent |
Republican |
|
