List of mayors of Houston

Mayor of Houston
Incumbent Sylvester Turner since January 2, 2016
Style	The Honorable
Term length	Four years, renewable once (effective 2016)
Inaugural holder	James S. Holman 1837
Formation	Houston City Charter
Website	Official website

This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. Each mayoral term lasted two years, and (beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier) the city charter term limits officeholders to no more than three terms (six years total).

On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to two four-year terms.

List of mayors of Houston

Term	Mayor
2016- 2021	Sylvester Turner
2010–2015	Annise Parker
2004–2011	Bill White
1998–2003	Lee Brown
1992–1998	Bob Lanier
1982–1991	Kathy Whitmire
1978–1981	Jim McConn
1974–1977	Fred Hofheinz
1964–1973	Louie Welch
1958–1963	Lewis Cutrer
1956–1957	Oscar F. Holcombe (5th)
1953–1955	Roy Hofheinz
1947–1952	Oscar F. Holcombe (4th)
1943–1946	Otis Massey
1941–1942	Neal Pickett
1939–1941	Oscar F. Holcombe (3rd)
1937–1938	Richard H. Fonville
1933–1936	Oscar F. Holcombe (2nd)
1929–1933	Walter E. Monteith
1921–1929	Oscar F. Holcombe
1918–1921	A. Earl Amerman
1917–1918	Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Jr.
1917	J. J. Pastoriza (died in office)
1913–1917	Ben Campbell
1905–1913	H. Baldwin Rice (2nd)
1904–1905	Andrew L. Jackson
1902–1904	O. T. Holt
1901–1902	John D. Woolford
1898–1901	Samuel H. Brashear
1896–1898	H. Baldwin Rice
1892–1896	John T. Browne
1890–1892	Henry Scherffius
1886–1890	Daniel C. Smith
1880–1886	William R. Baker
1879–1880	Andrew J. Burke
1877–1878	James T. D. Wilson (2nd)
1875–1876	I. C. Lord
1874	James T. D. Wilson
1870–1873	Thomas H. Scanlan
1868–1870	Joseph R. Morris
1867–1868	Alexander McGowan (2nd)
1866	Horace D. Taylor
1863–1865	William Anders
1862	Thomas W. House
1861	William J. Hutchins
1860	Thomas W. Whitmarsh
1859	William King
1858	Alexander McGowan
1856–1857	Cornelius Ennis
1855–1856	James H. Stevens
1853–1854	Nathan Fuller
1849–1852	Francis W. Moore, Jr. (3rd)
1847–1848	B. P. Buckner
1846	James Bailey
1845	W. W. Swain
1844	Horace Baldwin
1843	Francis W. Moore, Jr. (2nd)
1841–1842	Colonel J.D. Andrews
1840	Charles Bigelow
1839	George W. Lively
1838–1839	Francis W. Moore, Jr.
1837	James S. Holman

Living former mayors

As of January 2016, five former mayors were alive, the oldest being Lee Brown (1998–2004, born 1937). The most recent mayor to die was Bob Lanier (1992–1998), on December 20, 2014.

Name	Mayoral term	Date of birth
Fred Hofheinz	1974–1977	1938
Kathy Whitmire	1982–1991	August 15, 1946
Lee Brown	1998–2004	October 4, 1937
Bill White	2004–2010	June 16, 1954
Annise Parker	2010–2016	May 17, 1956

External links

• Mayor of Houston Biography
• List of Houston mayors
• Rulers - Houston