The mayor of Kansas City, Kansas is the highest official of the city government. In 1997, voters approved the consolidation of Kansas City, Kansas government with that of Wyandotte County . The office has since been referred to as "mayor/CEO" of the "United Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas." However, in popular terms, the head executive is called the mayor..

The following is a list of mayors of the city and the original towns that were consolidated into it. .

List of mayors

Elected before the 1886 consolidation +Mayors of Wyandotte, Kansas#NameTook officeLeft officeTerms1James R. Parr1859186012George Russell1860186223Stephen A. Cobb1862186314J. M. Funk1863186525Issaac B. Sharp1865186726James McGrew1867186813Stephen A. Cobb1868186917Byron Judd1869187018J. S. Stockton1870187336James McGrew1873187419George B. Wood18741875110C. Hains18751877211Fred Speck1877187928J. S. Stockton18791881212R. E. Cable18811883213D. E. Cornell18831885214J. C. Martin188518861

+Mayors of "old" Kansas City#NameTook officeLeft office1James BoyleOctober 22, 18722C. A. Eidenmiller3A. S. Orbinson4Eli Teed5Samuel McConnellApril 1881April 18836R. W. HillikerApril 1883April 18857James PhillipsApril 1885April 1886

Elected after the 1886 consolidation +Mayors of consolidated Kansas City #NameTook officeLeft office1Thomas F. Hannan188618892William Allen Coy188918913Thomas F. Hannan189118934Nathaniel Barnes189318955George J. Twiss189518976Robert L. Marshman189719017William H. Craddock190119038Thomas B. Gilbert190319059William W. Rose1905190610George M. Gray1906190711Dudley E. Cornell1907190912Ulysses Samuel Guyer1909191013James E. Porter1910191314C. W. Green1913191715Harry A Mendenhall1917192116H. B. Burton1921192317William W. Gordon1923192618Jabez O. Emerson1926192719Don C. McCombs1927194720Clark E. Tucker1947195521Paul F. Mitchum1955196422Joseph H. McDowell1964197123Richard F. Walsh1972197624Jack Reardon1976198725Joe Steineger19871995

Elected after consolidation with Wyandotte County +Mayor and CEOs of the United Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas#ImageNameTook officeLeft office26Carol Marinovich1995200627Joe Reardon2006201328Mark Holland2013201829David Alvey2018202130Tyrone Garner2021202631Christal Watson2026Incumbent

See also

List of mayors of Kansas City, Missouri Lists of people from Kansas

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