Chicago Mayors

55. Rahm Israel Emanuel, served 2011-? Rahm Emanuel is a Democrat but he and all other candidates in the 2011 election officially ran as nonpartisans. Under a 1995 Illinois law, "candidates for mayor . . . no longer would run under party labels in Chicago. First Jewish Mayor

Listed by Political Party

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

01. William Butler Ogden, served 1837-1838 Democrat first mayor of Chicago

04. Alexander Lloyd, served 1840-1841 Democrat

05. Francis Cornwall Sherman, served 1841-1842 Democrat

07. Augustus Garrett, served 1843-1844 Democrat

08. Alson Sherman, served 1844-1845 Independent Democrat

09. Augustus Garrett, served 2nd term, 1845-1846 Democrat

11. James Curtiss, served 1847-1848 Democrat

13. James Curtiss, served 1850-1851 Democrat

14. Walter Smith Gurnee, served 1851-1853 Democrat

15. Charles McNeill Gray, served 1853-1854 Democrat

16. Isaac Lawrence Milliken, served 1854-1855 Democrat

18. Thomas Dyer, served 1856-1857 Democrat

20. John Charles Haines, 1850-1860 Democrat

23. Francis Cornwall Sherman, served 1862-1865 Democrat

29. Carter Henry Harrison, Sr., served 1879-1887 Democrat

31. DeWitt Clinton Cregier, served 1889-1891 Democrat

33. Carter Henry Harrison, Sr., served 1893 (assassinated in office) Democrat

35. John Patrick Hopkins, served 1893-1895 Democrat

37. Carter Henry Harrison, Jr., served 1897-1905 Democrat

38. Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, served 1905-1907 Democrat

40. Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. served 2nd term 1911-1915 Democrat

42. William Emmett Dever, served 1923-1927 Democrat

44. Anton Joseph Cermak, served 1931-1933 Democrat

45. Frank J. Corr, served 1933, acting mayor, 33 days Democrat

46. Edward Joseph Kelly, served 1933-1947 Democrat

47. Martin H. Kennelly, served 1947-1955 Democrat

48. Richard Joseph Daley, served 1955-1976 (died in office) Democrat

49. Michael Anthony Bilandic, served 1976-1979 Democrat

50. Jane Margaret Byrne, served 1979-1983 Democrat Fist Female Mayor

51. Harold Lee Washington, served 1983-1987 (died in office) Democrat first Black Mayor

52. David Duvall Orr, served 1987, 8 days, Interim Mayor, Democrat

53. Eugene Sawyer, served 1987–1989, Democrat Elected by city council to complete Mayor Washington's term

54. Richard Michael Daley, served 1989–2011 (longest serving mayor) Democrat

55. Rahm Israel Emanuel, served 2011-? Rahm Emanuel is a Democrat but he and all other candidates in the 2011 election officially ran as nonpartisans. Under a 1995 Illinois law, "candidates for mayor . . . no longer would run under party labels in Chicago. First Jewish Mayor

REPUBLICAN PARTY

19. John Wentworth, served 1857-1858 Republican

21. John Wentworth, served 2nd term 1860-1861 Republican

22. Julian Sidney Rumsey, served 1861-1862 Republican

24. John Blake Rice, served 1865-1869 Republican

28. Monroe Heath, served 1875-1879 Republican

30. John A. Roche, served 1887-1889 Republican

32. Hempstead Washburne, served 1891-1893 Republican

34. George Bell Swift, served 1893 (Mayor Pro Tem) Republican

36. George Bell Swift, served 2nd term (first full term) 1895-1897 Republican

39. Fred A. Busse, served 1907-1911 Republican

41. William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, served 1915–1923, Republican