| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Incumbent: | Linda Gorton |
| Incumbentsince: | January 6, 2019 |
| Formation: | 1832 |
| First: | Charleton Hunt |
This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.
The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.[1]
| Mayor | Term start | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charleton Hunt | 1832 | 1834 |
| 2 | James E. Davis | 1835 | 1836 |
| 3 | James G. McKinney | 1837 | 1838 |
| 4 | Charles H. Wickliffe | 1839 | 1840 |
| 5 | Daniel Bradford | 1841 | 1841 |
| 6 | James Logue | 1842 | 1845 |
| 7 | Thomas Ross | 1846 | 1846 |
| 8 | John Henry | 1847 | 1847 |
| 9 | George Payne Jouett | 1848 | 1848 |
| 10 | Orlando F. Payne | 1849 | 1850 |
| 11 | Edward W. Dowden | 1851 | 1853 |
| 12 | Thomas H. Pindell | 1854 | 1854 |
| 13 | William Swift | 1855 | 1858 |
| 14 | Thomas B. Monroe Jr. | 1859 | 1859 |
| 15 | Benjamin F. Graves | 1860 | 1861 |
| 16 | Caleb Thomas Worley | 1862 | 1862 |
| 17 | Joseph Wingate | 1863 | 1865 |
| 18 | David W. Standiford | 1866 | 1866 |
| 19 | Jerry T. Frazier | 1867 | 1867 |
| 20 | Joseph G. Chinn | 1868 | 1868 |
| 21 | Jerry T. Frazier | 1869 | 1880 |
| 22 | Claude M. Johnson | 1880 | 1888 |
| 23 | Charles W. Foushee | 1888 | 1891 |
| 24 | J. Hull Davidson | 1892 | 1893 |
| 25 | Henry T. Duncan | 1894 | 1895 |
| 26 | Joseph Bullock Simrall | 1896 | 1899 |
| 27 | Henry T. Duncan | 1900 | 1904 |
| 28 | Thomas A. Combs | 1904 | 1907 |
| 28 | R. B. Waddy | 1907 | 1908 |
| 29 | John Skain | 1908 | 1911 |
| 30 | J. Ernest Cassidy | 1912 | 1916 |
| 31 | James C. Rogers | 1916 | 1919 |
| 32 | William H. McCorkle | 1919 | 1919 |
| 33 | Thomas Clark Bradley | 1920 | 1924 |
| 34 | Hogan Yancey | 1924 | 1928 |
| 35 | James J. O'Brien | 1928 | 1932 |
| 36 | William Thomas Congleton | 1932 | 1934 |
| 37 | Charles R. Thompson | 1934 | 1935 |
| 38 | E. Reed Wilson | 1935 | 1940 |
| 39 | T. Ward Havely | 1940 | 1943 |
| 40 | R. Mack Oldham | 1943 | 1948 |
| 41 | Thomas G. Mooney | 1948 | 1952 |
| 42 | Fred Fugazzi | 1952 | 1956 |
| 43 | Shelby C. Kinkead | 1956 | 1960 |
| 44 | Richard J. Colbert | 1960 | 1964 |
| 45 | Charles Wylie | 1968 | 1971 |
| 46 | H. Foster Pettit | 1971 | 1974 |
| Mayor | Term start | Term end | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | H. Foster Pettit | 1974 | 1977 |
| 2 | James G. Amato | 1978 | 1981 |
| 3 | Scotty Baesler | 1981 | 1992 |
| 4 | Pam Miller | 1993 | 2003 |
| 5 | Teresa Isaac | 2003 | 2006 |
| 6 | Jim Newberry | 2006 | 2011 |
| 7 | Jim Gray | 2011 | 2019 |
| 8 | Linda Gorton | 2019 | |