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Mayor of Pensacola
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<div>The '''Mayor of Pensacola''' was the symbolic head of government of the [[City of Pensacola]]. The mayoralty confers very little power, authority, or responsibility; the mayor is the presiding member of the [[Pensacola City Council]] but served otherwise in a largely ceremonial capacity. The current mayor of Pensacola is [[Mike Wiggins]]. Recently, Pensacola has passed a referendum that will give the mayor more power.<br />
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The mayoralty is a position that has fluctuated throughout the city's history. The first recorded mayor, under Spanish rule, was [[Jose Noriega]] (1820-1821). During the Civil War the city government went into exile in Greenville, Alabama, until it was restored in 1866. Other changes occurred in 1885, when Florida governor [[E.A. Perry]] tried to replace the city charter with a state-appointed commission, and in 1913, when the city changed to a council-manager form of government and the position was appointed by the [[Pensacola City Council|city council]]. It was changed again to an elected position in 2001 under [[John Fogg]]. <br />
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==19th Century==<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
|[[Jose Noriega]]<br/>(Spanish ''alcade'')<br />
|1820<br />
|----<br />
|[[George Bowie]]<br />
|1821<br />
|----<br />
|[[John de la Rua]]<br />
|1822<br />
|----<br />
|[[Peter Alba]]<br />
|1823 - 1824<br />
|----<br />
|[[John Jerrison]]<br />
|1825 - 1829<br />
|----<br />
|[[Peter Alba]]<br />
|1830 - 1833<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Evans (mayor)|Charles Evans]]<br />
|1834 - 1837<br />
|----<br />
|[[Hanson Kelly]]<br />
|1838 - 1839<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Le Baron]]<br />
|1840<br />
|----<br />
|[[Benjamin Drake Wright]]<br />
|1841<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Evans (mayor)|Charles Evans]]<br />
|1842 - 1846<br />
|----<br />
|[[Francis de la Rua]]<br />
|1847 - 1848<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Evans (mayor)|Charles Evans]]<br />
|1848 - 1852<br />
|----<br />
|[[Joseph Sierra]]<br />
|1852 - 1853<br />
|----<br />
|[[Samuel Leonard]]<br />
|1854 (resigned in July)<br />
|----<br />
|[[H. F. Ingraham]]<br />
|1854 (acting)<br />
|----<br />
|[[Joseph Sierra]]<br />
|1854<br />
|----<br />
|[[Francis B. Bobe]]<br />
|1855 - 1858<br />
|----<br />
|[[C. Gonzalez]]<br />
|1859 - 1860<br />
|----<br />
|[[C. H. Gingles]]<br />
|1861<br />
|----<br />
|[[Francis B. Bobe]]<br />
|1862 - 1863<br />
|----<br />
|[[Francis B. Bobe]]<ref>[[History of Pensacola#Confederate period (1861-1865)|City government in exile]] in [[Greenville, Alabama]]</ref><br />
|1863 - 1865<br />
|----<br />
|[[Samuel Leonard]]<br />
|1866<br />
|----<br />
|[[E. W. Anderson]]<br />
|1867<br />
|----<br />
|[[Sewall C. Cobb]]<br />
|1867 - 1869<br />
|----<br />
|[[F. C. Humphrey]]<br />
|1870 - 1872<br />
|----<br />
|[[Royal Putnam]]<br />
|1873<br />
|----<br />
|[[R. A. Stearns]]<br />
|1874<br />
|----<br />
|[[Joseph Pickett Jones]]<br />
|1875 - 1876<br />
|----<br />
|[[R. A. Stearns]]<br />
|1877<br />
|----<br />
|[[Salvador Pons]]<ref>First black mayor of Pensacola</ref><br />
|1878<br />
|----<br />
|[[William McKenzie Oerting]]<br />
|1879 - 1880<br />
|----<br />
|[[George H. O'Neal]]<br />
|1881<br />
|----<br />
|[[J. M. Tarble]]<br />
|1882<br />
|----<br />
|[[George H. Welles]]<br />
|1883 - 1884<br />
|----<br />
|[[S. S. Harvey]]<ref>At this time Governor [[E. A. Perry]] revoked Pensacola's city charter and supported a bill to replace it with a state-appointed commission. The bill failed and the city charter was restored.</ref><br />
|1885<br />
|----<br />
|[[Albert Lord Avery]]<br />
|1886<br />
|----<br />
|[[William Dudley Chipley]]<br />
|1887<br />
|----<br />
|[[Albert Lord Avery]]<br />
|1888 - 1889<br />
|----<br />
|[[James Madison Hilliard]]<br />
|1890 - 1892<br />
|----<br />
|[[W. E. Anderson]]<br />
|1893 - 1894<br />
|----<br />
|[[Pat McHugh]]<ref>In early 1895, a new legislature was promulgated by the state legislature and a new election held for mayor and aldermen.</ref><br />
|1895 - 1896<br />
|----<br />
|[[W. E. Anderson]]<br />
|1896<br />
|----<br />
|[[Pat McHugh]]<br />
|1897<br />
|----<br />
|[[William Hazard Northup]]<br />
|1897 - 1898<br />
|----<br />
|[[James Madison Hilliard]]<br />
|1899 - 1900<br />
|}<br />
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==20th century==<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
|[[Celestino Moreno Jones]]<br />
|1901 - 1902<br />
|----<br />
|[[Thomas Everett Welles]]<br />
|1903 - 1904<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Henry Bliss]]<br />
|1905 - 1907<br />
|----<br />
|[[Calvin C. Goodman]]<br />
|1907 - 1908<br />
|----<br />
|[[Frank Reilly]]<br />
|1909 - 1912<br />
|----<br />
|[[Adolph Greenhut]]<br />
|1913 - 1915<br />
|----<br />
|[[George H. Heinrich]]<br />
|1916<br />
|----<br />
|[[Thomas H. Johnson]]<br />
|1917<br />
|----<br />
|[[Francis Robinson Pou]]<br />
|1918<br />
|----<br />
|[[Frank Dent Sanders]]<br />
|1919 - 1921<br />
|----<br />
|[[J. Harvey Bayliss]]<ref>Changed to a council-manager form of government</ref><br />
|1921 - 1931<br />
|----<br />
|[[Henry Clay Armstrong]]<br />
|1931 - 1936<br />
|----<br />
|[[William L. Moyer]]<br />
|1936<br />
|----<br />
|[[Max Lee Bear]]<br />
|1936 - 1937<br />
|----<br />
|[[Lee Conner Hagler]]<br />
|1937 - 1943<br />
|----<br />
|[[Walter Wicke]]<br />
|1943 - 1947<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Perry Mason]]<br />
|1947 - 1957<br />
|----<br />
|[[Roy Philpot]]<br />
|1957 - 1961<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Overman, Jr.]]<br />
|1961 - 1963<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Perry Mason]]<br />
|1963 - 1965<br />
|----<br />
|[[B. Irvin Greenhut]]<br />
|1965 - 1967<br />
|----<br />
|[[Reinhardt Holm]]<br />
|1967<br />
|----<br />
|[[Charles Soule]]<br />
|1967 - 1969<br />
|----<br />
|[[Bryant Liggett]]<br />
|1969 - 1971<br />
|----<br />
|[[Eugene Elebash]]<br />
|1971 - 1973<br />
|----<br />
|[[Barney Burks]]<br />
|1973 - 1977<br />
|----<br />
|[[Warren Briggs]]<br />
|1977 - 1978<br />
|----<br />
|[[Vince Whibbs]]<br />
|1978 - 1991<br />
|----<br />
|[[Jerry Maygarden]]<br />
|1991 - 1994<br />
|----<br />
|[[John Fogg]]<br />
|1994 - 2001<br />
|}<br />
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==21st century==<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
|[[John Fogg]]<ref>Changed to popular election of the mayor.</ref><br />
|2001 - 2009<br />
|----<br />
|[[Mike Wiggins]]<br />
|2009 - present<br />
|}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[City of Pensacola]]<br />
*[[History of Pensacola]]<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~flescamb/mayors.htm Mayors of Pensacola]<br />
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