List of mayors of Kansas City
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Kansas City, Missouri mayors served one year terms until 1946 when they began serving four-year terms. When Kansas City was incorporated on March 18, 1853, it had an area 0.98 square miles and a population of 2,500. Today it has an area of 318 square miles, a population of around 450,000 people, and a metropolitan population of over 2 million people. Since the 1920s the city has had a council-manager government in which a city manager runs most of the day to day operations of the city. Mayors include:
- William S. Gregory 1853
- Johnston Lykins 1854
- John Johnson 1855 (35 days)
- Milton J. Payne 1855-1860
- George. M.B. Maughs 1860
- Robert T. Van Horn 1861
- Milton J. Payne 1862
- William Bonnifield 1863
- Robert T. Van Horn 1863, 1864
- Patrick Shannon 1865
- Alexander L. Harris 1866
- Edward H. Allen 1867
- Alexander L. Harris 1868
- Francis R. Long 1869
- Elijah M. McGee 1870
- William Warner 1871
- Robert H. Hunt 1872
- Edward L. Martin (Missouri) 1873
- Smith D. Woods 1874
- Turner A. Gill 1875, 1876
- James W.L. Slavens 1877
- George M. Shelley 1878, 1879
- Charles A. Chace 1880
- Daniel A. Frink 1881
- Thomas B. Bullene 1882
- James Gibson 1883
- Leander J. Talbott 1884
- John W. Moore 1885
- Henry C. Kumpf 1886, 1888
- Joseph J. Davenport 1889
- Benjamin Holmes 1890, 1891
- William S. Cowherd 1892, 1893
- Webster Davis 1894, 1895
- James M. Jones 1896-1899
- James A. Reed 1900-1903
- Jay H. Neff 1904, 1905
- Henry M. Beardsley 1906, 1907
- Thomas T. Crittenden Jr. 1908, 1909
- Darius A. Brown 1910, 1911
- Henry L. Jost 1912-1915
- George H. Edwards 1916, 1917
- James Cowgill 1918-1921
- Sam B. Strother 1921 (succeeded on Cowgill's death)
- Frank H. Cromwell 1922, 1923
- Albert I. Beach 1924-1930
- Bryce B. Smith 1930-1939
- John B. Gage 1940-1946
- William E. Kemp 1946-1955 (four year terms begin)
- H. Roe Bartle 1955-1963
- Ilus W. Davis 1963-1971
- Charles B. Wheeler, Jr. 1971-1979
- Richard L. Berkley 1979-1991
- Emanuel Cleaver 1991-1999
- Kay Barnes 1999-2007
- Mark Funkhouser 2007-
