City Hall and Tampa's Mayors

Eastern facing side of City Hall on Florida Avenue, with main entrance on the right on Kennedy Blvd.

 

city hall burgert bros.jpg (53738 bytes)Tampa's City Hall opened August 28, 1915 and still houses Tampa's city council chambers and offices.  The four-faced clock was nicknamed "Hortense" after Hortense Oppenheimer Ford, the socialite daughter of a local physician who raised money to purchase the timepieces during the building's construction.  

 

Click on button to left for 1917 Burgert Brothers photo which shows the building's entrance on Lafayette Street (now Kennedy Blvd.) and the four-faced clock on top of the building.

 

Tampa Mayors

Term

Name

Number
February 14, 1856 – November 25, 1856 Joseph B. Lancaster 1
November 25, 1856 – December 6, 1856 Darwin Austen Branch (Acting Mayor) 2, 4
December 6, 1856 – February 9, 1857 J. Alfonso DeLaunay 3
February 9, 1857 – February 10, 1858 Darwin Austen Branch 2, 4
February 10, 1858 – February 12, 1859 Madison Post 5
February 12, 1859 – February 1, 1860 James McKay, Sr. 6
February 1, 1860 - February 2, 1861 John P. Crichton 7
February 2, 1861 – May 1861 Hamlin Valentine Snell 8
May 1861 - February 3, 1862 John Jackson  (Acting Mayor) 9
February 3, 1862 - February 22, 1862 John Jackson 9
February 23, 1862 - October 24, 1866 No Municipal Form of Government  
October 25, 1866 – December 1866 Edward A. Clarke 10
December 1866 – March 1, 1869 Josiah A. Ferris 11
March 1, 1869 – October 4, 1869 John Thomas Lesley 12
July 6, 1870 - mid 1872 (non-chartered years) John Henderson  
August 11, 1873 – August 13, 1876 James E. Lipscomb 13
August 14, 1876 – August 14, 1877 Harlan P. Lovering 14
August 14, 1877 – August 14, 1878 Thomas Edward Jackson 15, 24
August 14, 1878 - August 14, 1880 John P. Wall 16
August 14, 1880 – February 19, 1881 Henry Clarke Ferris 17
February 19, 1881 – March 22, 1881 Matthew E. Haynsworth (Acting) 18
March 22, 1881 - August 14, 1883 George Bascom Sparkman 19, 22
August 14, 1883 – August 13, 1886 Duff Post 20, 26
August 13, 1886 – July 15, 1887 Herman Glogowski 21, 23, 25, 27
July 15, 1887 - March 8, 1888 George Bascom Sparkman 19, 22
March 8, 1888 - March 6, 1889 Herman Glogowski 21, 23, 25, 27
March 6, 1889 - March 5, 1890 Thomas Edward Jackson 15, 24
March 5, 1890 - March 4, 1891 Herman Glogowski 21, 23, 25, 27
March 4, 1891 - March 4, 1892 Duff Post 20, 26
March 4, 1892 - March 10, 1893 Herman Glogowski 21, 23, 25, 27
March 10, 1893 – March 9, 1894 Frederick A. Salomonson 28, 30, 35
March 9, 1894 – March 8, 1895 Robert W. Easley 29
March 8, 1895 – June 5, 1896 Frederick A. Salomonson 28, 30, 35
June 5, 1896– June 5, 1898 Myron E. Gillett 31
June 8, 1898 – June 8, 1900 Frank C. Bowyer 32
June 8, 1900 – June 4, 1902 Francis Lyman Wing 33, 37
June 5, 1902 – June 5, 1904 James McKay, Jr. 34
June 5, 1904 – June 6, 1906 Frederick A. Salomonson 28, 30, 35
June 6, 1906 – June 3, 1908 William H. Frecker 36
June 3, 1908 – June 4, 1910 Francis Lyman Wing 33, 37
June 4, 1910 – June 5, 1920 Donald Brenham McKay 38, 42
June 5, 1920 – January 4, 1921 Horace Cadwell Gordon 39
January 4, 1921 – January 8, 1924 Charles H. Brown 40
January 8, 1924 - January 3, 1928 Perry G. Wall 41
January 3, 1928 – October 27, 1931 Donald Brenham McKay 38, 42
October 27, 1931 – November 3, 1931 Thomas N. Henderson 43
November 3, 1931 – November 3, 1943 Robert E. Lee Chancey 44
November 3, 1943 - May 21, 1956 Curtis Hixon 45
May 21, 1956 – October 3, 1956 Junie Lee Young, Jr. (Acting) 46
October 1, 1956 – October 1, 1959 Nick Chillura Nuccio 47, 49
October 1, 1959 - October 1, 1963 Julian Barnes Lane 48
October 1, 1963 - October 1, 1967 Nick Chillura Nuccio 47, 49
October 1, 1967 – April 1, 1974 Dick Greco (1974) 50, 56
April 1, 1974 – June 19, 1974 Richard L. Cheney (Acting) 51
June 19, 1974 – October 3, 1974 Lloyd Copeland (Acting) 52
October 3, 1974 – October 3, 1979 William F. Poe 53
October 1, 1979 – July 16, 1986 Robert (Bob) Martinez 54
July 17, 1986 – April 1, 1987 Sandra Warshaw Freedman (Acting) 55
April 1, 1987 – April 1, 1995 Sandra Warshaw Freedman 55
 April 1, 1995 – April 1, 2003 Dick Greco 50, 56
 April 1, 2003 – Present Pam Iorio 57

 

 

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