This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974.
The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election.
Pre-consolidation mayors # Mayor Term start Term end1 Charlton Hunt 1832 18352 James E. Davis 1835 18373 James G. McKinney 1837 18394 Charles H. Wickliffe 1839 18415 Daniel Bradford 1841 18426 James Logue 1842 18467 Thomas Ross 1846 18478 John Henry 1847 18489 George Payne Jouett 1848 184910 Orlando F. Payne 1849 185111 Edward W. Dowden 1851 185412 Thomas H. Pindell 1854 185513 William Swift 1855 185914 Thomas B. Monroe Jr. 1859 186015 Benjamin F. Graves 1860 186216 Caleb Thomas Worley 1862 186317 Joseph Wingate 1863 186618 David W. Standiford 1866 186719 Jerry T. Frazier 1867 186820 Joseph G. Chinn 1868 186921 Jerry T. Frazier 1869 188022 Claude M. Johnson 1880 188823 Charles W. Foushee 1888 189224 J. Hull Davidson 1892 189325 Henry T. Duncan 1893 189626 Joseph Bullock Simrall 1896 190027 Henry T. Duncan 1900 190428 Thomas A. Combs 1904 190729 R. B. Waddy 1907 190830 John Skain 1908 191231 J. Ernest Cassidy 1912 191632 James C. Rogers 1916 191933 William H. McCorkle 1919 192034 Thomas Clark Bradley 1920 192435 Hogan Yancey 1924 192836 James J. O'Brien 1928 193237 William Thomas Congleton 1932 193438 Charles R. Thompson 1934 193639 E. Reed Wilson 1936 194040 T. Ward Havely 1940 194341 R. Mack Oldham 1943 194842 Thomas G. Mooney 1948 195243 Fred Fugazzi 1952 195644 Shelby C. Kinkead 1956 196045 Richard J. Colbert 1960 196446 Fred Fugazzi 1964 196847 Charles Wylie 1968 197248 H. Foster Pettit 1972 1974
Post-consolidation mayors # Mayor Term start Term end1 H. Foster Pettit 1974 19782 James G. Amato 1978 19823 Scotty Baesler 1982 19934 Pam Miller 1993 20035 Teresa Isaac 2003 20076 Jim Newberry 2007 20117 Jim Gray 2011 20198 Linda Gorton 2019
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