| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Columbus |
| Flag: | Flag of Columbus, Ohio.svg |
| Flagborder: | yes |
| Flagsize: | 110px |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of the City of Columbus |
| Insignia: | Columbus seal.png |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of the City of Columbus |
| Incumbent: | Andrew Ginther |
| Incumbentsince: | January 1, 2016 |
| Style: | The Honorable |
| Termlength: | Four-year term, no limits |
| Formation: | February 14, 1812 |
| Inaugural: | Jarvis W. Pike |
| Salary: | $177,000 (2016)[1] |
| Website: | mayor.columbus.gov |
There have been 48 individuals that have served as mayor of Columbus, Ohio, serving 53 distinct mayoralties or consecutive terms in office. The first mayor of Columbus was Jarvis W. Pike. He was appointed by the Burough Council of Columbus in 1816. The first mayor of Columbus to be elected by popular vote was John Brooks in 1834. Five mayors have served non-consecutive terms. Philo H. Olmsted is counted as both the 8th and 12th mayor, Alexander Patton as both the 17th and 19th mayor, James G. Bull as both the 22nd and 24th mayor, George J. Karb as both the 30th and 39th mayor, and Jack Sensenbrenner as both the 46th and 48th mayor. Of the individuals appointed or elected as mayor, five have resigned from office - James Robinson, John Brooks, Warren Jenkins, John G. Miller, and Jim Rhodes. No mayor has died or become permanently disabled while in office. The shortest-serving former mayor is James Robinson, who served only eight months before resigning from office on September 11, 1827. The longest-serving mayor is Michael B. Coleman, who served 16 years and is the only African American to serve as mayor. Andrew Ginther is the current mayor. He took office on January 1, 2016.[2]
| № | Mayor | Took office | Left office | Party | Term | Previous office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarvis W. Pike (1795–1854) | 1 (1816) | Member of Columbus Burough Council (1816–1827) | |||||
| 2 (1817) | ||||||||
| 2 | John Kerr (1778–1823) [3] | 3 (1818) | Member of Columbus Burough Council (1816–1823) | |||||
| 4 (1819) | ||||||||
| 3 | Eli C. King | 5 (1820) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1816–1820) | |||||
| 6 (1821) | ||||||||
| 7 (1822) | ||||||||
| 4 | John Laughrey (1784–) | 8 (1823) | ||||||
| 5 | William T. Martin (1788–1866) [4] | 9 (1824) | Recorder of Columbus (1823, 1834–1838) | |||||
| 10 (1825) | ||||||||
| 11 (1826) | ||||||||
| 6 | James Robinson | 12 (1827) | Member of Columbus Burough Council (1823–1827) | |||||
| 7 | William Long (1781–1851) [5] | Recorder of Columbus (1824–1827) | ||||||
| 13 (1828) | ||||||||
| 14 (1829) | ||||||||
| 15 (1830) | ||||||||
| 16 (1831) | ||||||||
| 17 (1832) | ||||||||
| 8 | Philo H. Olmsted (1793–1870) [6] | Whig | 18 (1833) | Ohio Representative from Franklin County (1831–1832, 1833–1834) | ||||
| 9 | John Brooks (1785–1869) [7] | 19 (1834) | ||||||
| 10 | John Bailhache (1787–1857) | Whig | Ross County Common Pleas Court Judge (1825) | |||||
| 11 | Warren Jenkins [8] | Whig | 20 (1836) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1835–1837) | ||||
| 12 | Philo H. Olmsted (1793–1870) | Whig | 21 (1838) | Ohio Representative from Franklin County (1831–1832, 1833–1834) | ||||
| 13 | John G. Miller (1795–1871) [9] | Whig | 22 (1840) | |||||
| 14 | Thomas Wood (1782–1861) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1828–1843) | ||||||
| 15 | Abram I. McDowell (1793–1844) | < | --NOT CLEAR WHY THERE WAS ANOTHER ELECTION WITHOUT COMPLETING THE LAST YEAR OF MCDOWELL'S TERM.--> | 23 (1842) | Clerk for the Court of Common Pleas (1815–1836) | |||
| 16 | Smithson E. Wright (1807–1881) | Whig | 24 (1843) | |||||
| 17 | Alexander Patton (1791–1857) | Whig | 25 (1845) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1843–1849) | ||||
| 18 | Augustus S. Decker (1813–1872) | Whig | ||||||
| 19 | Alexander Patton (1791–1858) | Whig | 26 (1847) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1843–1849) | ||||
| 27 (1849) | ||||||||
| 20 | Lorenzo English (1819–1888) [10] | Whig | 28 (1851) | No previous experience in public office | ||||
| 29 (1853) | ||||||||
| 30 (1855) | ||||||||
| 31 (1857) | ||||||||
| 32 (1859) | ||||||||
| Wray Thomas (1810–) [11] | Democratic | 33 (1861) | Ohio Representative from Delaware and Franklin County (1831–1832, 1833–1834) | |||||
| 34 (1863) | ||||||||
| James G. Bull (1838–1927) [12] | Democratic | 35 (1865) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| 36 (1867) | ||||||||
| George W. Meeker (1833–1890) [13] | Democratic | 37 (1869) | Justice of the Peace for Montgomery Township (1863–1869) | |||||
| James G. Bull (1838–1927) | Democratic | 38 (1871) | Mayor of Columbus (1865–1868) | |||||
| 39 (1873) | ||||||||
| John H. Heitmann (1841–1894) [14] | Democratic | 40 (1875) | Ohio Representative from Franklin County (1874–1876) | |||||
| 41 (1877) | ||||||||
| Gilbert G. Collins (1830–1885) [15] | Republican | 42 (1879) | City Attorney of Columbus (1873–1875) | |||||
| George S. Peters (1846–1928) [16] | Democratic | 43 (1881) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| Charles C. Walcutt (1838–1898) [17] | Republican | 44 (1883) | Member of Columbus Board of Education (1873–1894) | |||||
| 45 (1885) | ||||||||
| Philip H. Bruck (1845–1920) [18] | Democratic | 46 (1887) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| 47 (1889) | ||||||||
| George J. Karb (1858–1937) [19] | Democratic | 48 (1891) | Columbus Police Commissioner (1889–1890) | |||||
| 49 (1893) | ||||||||
| Cotton H. Allen (1834–1900) [20] | Democratic | 50 (1895) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| Samuel L. Black (1859–1929) [21] | Democratic | 51 (1897) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| Samuel J. Swartz (1859–1905) [22] | Republican | 52 (1899) | Police Court Judge of Columbus (1897–1898) | |||||
| John N. Hinkle (1854–1905) [23] | Democratic | 53 (1901) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| Robert H. Jeffrey (1873–1961) [24] | Republican | 54 (1903) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| De Witt C. Badger (1858–1926) [25] [26] | Democratic | 55 (1905) | U.S. Representative from Ohio (1903–1905) | |||||
| Charles A. Bond (1873–1943) [27] | Republican | 56 (1907) | No previous experience in public office | |||||
| George S. Marshall (1869–1956) [28] | Republican | 57 (1909) | Asst City Attorney of Columbus (1899–1909) | |||||
| George J. Karb (1858–1937) | Democratic | 58 (1911) | Franklin County Sheriff (1903–1909) | |||||
| 59 (1913) | ||||||||
| 60 (1915) | ||||||||
| James J. Thomas (1868–1947) [29] | Republican | 61 (1919) | Member of Columbus City Council (1898–1901) | |||||
| 62 (1923) | ||||||||
| 63 (1927) | ||||||||
| Henry W. Worley (1877–1938) [30] | Democratic | 64 (1931) | Member of Columbus City Council (1922–1932) | |||||
| Myron B. Gessaman (1894–1975) [31] | Republican | 65 (1935) | Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1934–1935) | |||||
| Floyd F. Green (1900–1952) [32] | Republican | 66 (1939) | Member of Columbus City Council (1927–1931) | |||||
| Jim Rhodes (1909–2001) [33] | Republican | 67 (1943) | City Auditor of Columbus (1939–1943) | |||||
| 68 (1947) | ||||||||
| 69 (1951) | ||||||||
| Robert T. Oestreicher (1894–1955) [34] | Republican | President of Columbus City Council | ||||||
| Jack Sensenbrenner (1902–1991) [35] | Democratic | No previous experience in public office | ||||||
| 70 (1955) | ||||||||
| Ralston Westlake (1907–1978) [36] | Republican | 71 (1959) | Member of Columbus City Council (1956–1959) | |||||
| Jack Sensenbrenner (1902–1991) | Democratic | 72 (1963) | Mayor of Columbus (1954–1960) | |||||
| 73 (1967) | ||||||||
| Tom Moody (1929–2008) [37] | Republican | 74 (1971) | Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge (1968–1971) | |||||
| 75 (1975) | ||||||||
| 76 (1979) | ||||||||
| Buck Rinehart (1946–2015) [38] | Republican | 77 (1983) | Franklin County Treasurer of Ohio (1976–1984) | |||||
| 78 (1987) | ||||||||
| Greg Lashutka (born 1944) [39] | Republican | 79 (1991) | City Attorney of Columbus (1978–1985) | |||||
| 80 (1995) | ||||||||
| Michael B. Coleman (born 1954) | Democratic | 81 (1999) | President of Columbus City Council (1997–1999) | |||||
| 82 (2003) | ||||||||
| 83 (2007) | ||||||||
| 84 (2011) | ||||||||
| Andrew Ginther (born 1975) [40] | Democratic | 85 (2015) | President of Columbus City Council (2011–2015) | |||||
| 86 (2019) | ||||||||
| 87 (2023) | ||||||||