Mayors of Nashville

1806 - 1808 Joseph Coleman Jeffersonian Republican
1809 - 1810 Ben J. Bradford Jeffersonian Republican
1811 - 1813 William Tait Jeffersonian Republican
1814 - 1817 Joseph T. Elliston Jeffersonian Republican
1817 - 1818 Stephen Cantrell, Jr. Jeffersonian Republican
1818 - 1819 Felix Robertson Jeffersonian Republican
1819 Thomas Crutcher Jeffersonian Republican
1820 James Condon Jeffersonian Republican
1821 John P. Erwin Whig
1822 - 1823 Robert B. Currey Jeffersonian Republican
1824 Randall McGavock Jeffersonian Republican
1825 - 1826 Wilkins Tannehill Whig
1827 - 1828 Felix Robertson
1829 - 1832 William Armstrong Jeffersonian Republican
1833 John M. Bass Whig - Unionist
1834 John Patton Erwin Whig
1835 - 1836 William Nichol Whig - Democrat
1837 - 1838 Henry Hollingsworth Democrat
1839 - 1840 Charles C. Trabue Whig
1841 Samuel V. D. Stout Whig - Democrat
1842 Thomas B. Coleman
1843 - 1844 Powhatan W. Maxey Whig - Unionist
1845 John Hugh Smith Whig - Unionist
1846 John A. Goodlett
1847 - 1848 Alexander Allison
1849 John McCormick Lea Whig - Unionist
1850 - 1852 John Hugh Smith Whig - Unionist
1853 William H. Horn Whig
1854-1855 Robert B. Castleman Whig
1856 Andrew Anderson
1857 John A. McEwen
1858 Randall W. McGavock Democrat
1859 S.N. Hollingsworth Opposition
1860-1861 Richard B. Cheatham Democrat
1862-1864 John Hugh Smith Whig-Unionist
1865 - 1866 William Matt Brown Whig - Democrat
1867 - 1868 Augustus E. Alden Radical Republican
1869 John M. Bass Whig - Unionist
1869 - 1871 Kindred J. Morris Democrat
1872 - 1873 Thomas A. Kercheval Unionist - Republican
1874 Morton B. Howell Democrat
1875 - 1883 Thomas A. Kercheval Unionist - Republican
1884 - 1885 C. Hooper Phillips
1886 - 1887 Thomas A. Kercheval Unionist - Republican
1888 - 1890 Charles P. McCarver Democrat
1891 William Litterer Democrat
1892 - 1895 George B. Guild Democrat
1896 - 1897 William M. McCarthy Reform Democrat
1898 - 1899 Robert H. Dudley Democrat
1900 - 1903 James M. Head Democrat
1904 - 1905 Albert S. Williams Democrat
1906 - 1907 Thomas O. Morris
1908 James S. Brown Democrat
1909 - 1915 Hilary E. Howse Democrat
1915 Park Marshall not elected, served out Howse term
1916 - 1917 Robert Ewing Democrat
1918 - 1921 William Gupton Democrat
1921 - 1922 Felix Z. Wilson Democrat
1922 - 1923 Percy Sharpe Democrat
1924 - 1938 Hilary E. Howse Democrat
1938 - 1951 Thomas L. Cummings Democrat
1951 - 1963 Ben West Democrat
Metropolitan Government Begins
1963 - 1975 Beverly Briley Democrat
1975 - 1987 Richard H. Fulton Democrat
1987 - 1991 William Boner Democrat
1991 - 1999 Philip Bredesen Democrat
1999- Bill Purcell Democrat