This article contains a list of mayors of Biloxi, Mississippi, United States.
After receiving its charter in 1838, Biloxi was classified as a township and elected a president and a board of selectmen. On the eve of the American Civil War, these titles were changed to mayor and aldermen and were part-time positions. In 1919, Biloxi voters opted to have a new full-time government with a mayor and two commissioners elected to four-year terms. This system remained in place until voters again amended the city's governing structure in 1978, approving a mayor-council form of government with a city-wide elected mayor and councilmen elected from seven wards in the city, which went into effect at the 1981 elections.
Mayor | In office | Political party | |
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John J. Kennedy | 1919–1933 | Democratic | |
Hart Chinn | 1933–1935 | Democratic | |
John A. O'Keefe | 1935–1936 | Democratic | |
Louis Braun | 1936–1943 | Democratic | |
Chester Delacruz | 1943–1947 | Democratic | |
G.B. Cousins | 1947–1951 | Democratic | |
Hart Chinn | 1951–1953 | Democratic | |
Laz Quave | 1953–1961 | Democratic | |
Daniel D. Guice | 1961–1973 | Democratic | |
Jeremiah J. O'Keefe | 1973–1981 | Democratic | |
Gerald Blessey | 1981–1989 | Democratic | |
Pete Halat | 1989–1993 | Democratic | |
A. J. Holloway | 1993–2015 | Republican | |
Andrew "FoFo" Gilich[1] | 2015– | Republican |