History Former Mayors
Mayors’ Name |
Years in Office |
Colonel Charles A. Howell - Founder of City of Duluth |
1876 |
John Bruce Knox - First Mayor |
1880-1885 |
D.W. Wilson |
1907-1910 |
Mack Pittard |
1911-1912 |
W.B.Rutledge |
1913 |
D.W. Wilson |
1914-1915 |
W.E. Jones |
1916-1917 |
W.R. Jones |
1918 |
J.E. Lowe |
1919 |
J.W. Knox |
1920 |
H.G. Herron |
1921 |
C.E. Strickland |
1922 |
Alice Harrell Strickland |
1923 |
H.G. Herron |
1924-1927 |
J.C. Bagwell |
1928-1929 |
H.G. Herron |
1930 |
G.B. Strickland |
1931 |
J.C. Bagwell |
1932 |
H.G.Herron |
1933 |
L.R. Echols |
1934-1935 |
W.B. Shirley |
1936-1938 |
D.E. Flowers |
1939-1940 |
Joe Mitchell |
1/6/1941-2/3/1941 |
Jack Parsons (acting Mayor) |
Feb. 3-17, 1941 |
G.B. Strickland |
Feb. 2 – Sept. 22, 1941 |
L. Roy Echols |
9/29/1941-1943 |
Jack A. Parsons |
1944 |
G.W. Finley, L. Roy Echols |
1945 |
L. Roy Echols |
1946-1949 |
Y.J. Harrington, Sr. |
1950-1951 |
W.H. Vaughn |
1952-1955 |
Oliver J. Murphy |
1956 |
Y.J. Harrington, Sr. |
1957 |
Mose D. Hamrick |
1958-1959 |
L. Roy Echols |
1960-1963 |
Robert E. Bennewitz |
1964-1967 |
James Marlon Corley |
1968-1973 |
Don Wilson |
1974-1977 |
Claude D. Mason |
1978-1983 |
Willie P. Jones |
1984-1985 |
Richard Hyslop |
1985-1987 |
Bobby G. Williams |
1988-1993 |
Shirley Fanning-Lasseter |
1994-2007 |
Nancy Harris |
2008-Present |