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