List of mayors of Pekin, Illinois

Mayors of City of Pekin

Aldermanic government (1849–1911)

Bernard Bailey	1849–50	Resigned at city council's request
Abram Woolston	1850–51	Won in a special election
James Harriott	1851–52
Middleton Tackaberry	1853, 1857
Merrill C. Young	1854–55
Leonard H. Wilkey	1856
Peter Weyrich	1858–59
Isaac E. Leonard	1860–61
Benjamin S. Prettyman	1862
Samuel E. Barber	1863
Thomas C. Reeves	1864
William W. Sellers	1865–66	Resigned to accept an appointment to the state legislature
J. Cohenour	1865–66	Elected to the state legislature
Columbus J.D. Rupert	1867–68	Appointed
William T. Edds	1869	Appointed
David T. Thompson	1870–71
John Stoltz	1872
John Herget	1873–74
Columbus R. Cummings	1875–76	First mayor to serve under a new two-year term length
Abial B. Sawyer	1877–78
Herman W. Hippen	1879–80
Thomas Cooper	1881–84, 1891–92
John L. Smith	1885–86
Albert R. Warren	1887–88
Ernest F. Unland	1889–90
Everett W. Wilson	1893–94, 1899–1900
Charles Duisdieker	1895–96
Daniel Sapp	1897–98, 1905–07
William J. Conzelman	1901–04, 1909–11
Henry Schnellbacher	1907–09

Commission system

Name	Term	Notes
Charles Duisdieker	1911–1915	First mayor elected under the commission system
Charles Schaefer	1915–1919
William Schurman	1919–1923
Benjamin F. Michael	1923–1927, 1931
L.B. Kinsey	1927–1931
L. Russell	1931–1935	Appointed to fill vacancy until next election
W.E. Schurman	1935–1939
John Norman Shade	1939–1954	Resigned in April 1954
John J. McGinty	1954–1955	Appointed to fill vacancy until next election
Norman E. Wolfer	1955–1959
John Norman Shade	1959–1966	Resigned in October 1966
William L. Waldmeier	1966–1979	Appointed in 1966 and later elected in 1967
Willard E. Birkmeier	1979–1987
Larry Homerin	1987–1991
Don Williams	1991–1995

Council-manager system

David Tebben	1995–2003	First mayor elected under the council manager form of government
Lyndell Howard	2003–2005	Removed from office upon felony official misconduct conviction
Frank Mackaman	2005–2007	Appointed to fill Howard vacancy
David Tebben	2007–2008	Died in office December 12, 2008
Rusty Dunn	2008–2011	Appointed to fill Tebben vacancy
Laurie Barra	2011–2015	First female mayor in Pekin history
John McCabe	2015–2019
Mark Luft	2019–present

References

This article "List of mayors of Pekin, Illinois" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:List of mayors of Pekin, Illinois. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

📰 Article(s) of the same category(ies)

• List of mayors of Crystal Lake, Illinois

---