The city of Portageville, Missouri, located in Missouri's 8th congressional district in southeastern Missouri, is one of the largest cities in New Madrid County, Missouri, one of the five oldest counties in the state.
Mayor | Took office | Left office | Additional information | |
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rowspan=1 | Joseph Casey McCrate
| c. 1933 | 1947 | He was born in Ohio. He was the father of future mayor Joseph Edward McCrate. |
rowspan=1 | Joseph Edward McCrate
| 1947 | 1953 | School superintendent, bank director, hospital board member. He was born in Ohio. He was the son of former mayor Joseph Casey McCrate. |
rowspan=1 | A. Henry Workman | 1951 | 1953 | |
rowspan=1 | Leonard Faherty Pinkley Sr.
| 1953 | 1957 | |
rowspan=1 | Bailey Rutledge | 1957 | c. 1960 | |
Leeds K. Butler
| c. 1960 | c. 1964 | ||
rowspan=1 | Joseph E. Christian
| 1965 | 1967 | He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 during World War II. |
rowspan=1 | Barry L. Richardson | c. 1968 | 1969 | Resigned as mayor to be appointed to the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service by Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin.[2] |
Earl McCall Walker
| 1969 | Appointed, served as acting mayor. He served in U.S. Navy during the Korean War. | ||
rowspan=1 | Roy Moore
| c. 1971 | c. 1973 | He had been a hardware merchant for 40 years. |
rowspan=1 | Barry L. Richardson | 1973 | c. 1978 | (Previously served as mayor.) |
rowspan=1 | Don Rone, Jr. | c. 1978 | 1981 | He was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2014. |
rowspan=1 | Arvil Vernell Adams
| 1981 | 1991 | He served as president of the Portageville School Board, 1957–1972. |
rowspan=1 | Don Rone, Jr. | c. 1991 | c. 1995 | (Previously served as mayor.) |
James D. Patton, Sr.[4] | c. 1995 | c. 1998 | He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.[5] | |
Don Day[6] | c. 1998 | c. 1999 | He served as the second district commissioner of New Madrid County from 2005 until 2020.[7] | |
Denis McCrate[8] | 2012 | - | ||
Floyd Simmons | 2015 | 2017 | ||
Denis McCrate | 2017 | 2019 | He defeated future mayor Vince Berry in a 2017 election.[9] | |
Floyd Simmons | 2019[10] | 2020 | He submitted a letter of resignation in 2020, citing health-related reasons.[11] | |
Vince Berry[12] | 2020 |