List of longest-serving United States mayors

Some of the longest-serving mayors in the United States are listed according to their length of service in that currently or has served in that part of the state or legislative office. The office of mayor is the highest ranking local official and responsibilities may vary from ceremonial to full-time responsibility for city operations.

Serving mayors

A list of mayors still in office and ordered by their length of continuous service in that office.

Years	Name	Municipality	Notes
	Margaret M. Doud	Mackinac Island, Michigan	Entered office on April 14, 1975.
	Robert Heidenescher	Dupont, Ohio	Entered office on January 5, 1976.
	William D. Tate	Grapevine, Texas	Served from May 1, 1973 to May 1, 1985. Re-entered office on May 1, 1988.
	Lamar Scroggs	Oakwood, Georgia	Entered office on January 12, 1976.
	Harold Rainwater	Wilmore, Kentucky	Entered office on November 2, 1976
	Rutledge B. Leland, III	McClellanville, South Carolina	Entered office in 1976.
	Robert Chatfield	Prospect, Connecticut	Entered office on November 7, 1977.
	Phil Williams	McLemoresville, Tennessee	Entered office on January 11, 1977. He is the longest serving mayor in Tennessee history.
	Mary Hawkins Butler	Madison, Mississippi	Entered office on June 7, 1981
	Jeffery D. Schielke	Batavia, Illinois	Entered office on May 4, 1981.
	Gerald R. Bennett	Palos Hills, Illinois	Entered Office in 1981
	Mark Anthony McClure	Danville, West Virginia	Entered office on July 6, 1981.
	Johnny B. Thomas	Glendora, Mississippi	Entered office in March 16, 1982.
	James V. Bender Jr	Pollocksville, North Carolina	Entered office on November 1, 1982.
	Alan Haught	Harrisville, West Virginia	Entered office on July 1, 1983.
	William "Bill" McIntosh	Moultrie, Georgia	Entered office in September 13, 1983.
years	Louie Davis	Waldo, Florida	Entered office in 1985.
39 years	James B. Grant	Louisville, Alabama	Entered office in 1986.
38 years	Dennis M. Clough	Westlake, Ohio	Entered office in 1986.
	Richard Turner	Weehawken, New Jersey	Entered office July 1, 1990
	Ravi Bhasker	Socorro, New Mexico	Entered office on November 6, 1990.
	James M. Cahill	New Brunswick, New Jersey	Entered office on January 1, 1991.
years	Mark Lauretti	Shelton, Connecticut	Entered office in 1991.
	J. Christian Bollwage	Elizabeth, New Jersey	Entered office on January 1, 1993.
	Dean J. Mazzarella	Leominster, Massachusetts	Entered office on January 3, 1994.

Former mayors

A list of mayors in order of their total length of service.

Years	Name	Municipality	Notes
	Hilmar Moore	Richmond, Texas	Served from September 22, 1949, until his death on December 4, 2012.
	John H. Land	Apopka, Florida	Served from January 1, 1950, to January 1, 1968, and from January 1, 1971, to April 22, 2014.
60 years	Charles E. Long	Booneville, Kentucky	Served from 1958 until his death on August 3, 2019.
	Robert Linn	Beaver, Pennsylvania	Served from January 2, 1946, to August 22, 2004.
	Bruce Arnold	Valparaiso, Florida	Served from January 21, 1964, until his death on February 23, 2017.
56 years	Paul Jurko	Yankee Lake, Ohio	Served from November, 1931 until his death on March 1, 1988.
	Robert L. Butler	Marion, Illinois	Served from May 6, 1963 until his resignation on January 31, 2018.
52 years	Gerald Calabrese	Cliffside Park, New Jersey	Served from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 2015.
52 years	Frank Caliper	Colp, Illinois	Served from 1935 until his death on March 28, 1987.
	John M. Coyne	Brooklyn, Ohio	Served from 1948 to January 2000.
	Donald Stephens	Rosemont, Illinois	First Mayor of Rosemont. Served from village's incorporation in 1956 to 2007.
	Robert M. Blais	Lake George, New York	Served from April 5, 1971, to April 1, 2023.
	Dock Hulett Gabbert	Derma, Mississippi	Served from July 1, 1969, to December 30, 2020.
	Leonard Scarcella	Stafford, Texas	Served from September 4, 1969, until his death on June 28, 2020.
	Leonard T. Connors	Surf City, New Jersey	Served from 1966 to January 5, 2016.
	Frank E. Rodgers	Harrison, New Jersey	Served from September 4, 1946, to August 22, 1995.
	Randall Wise	Niceville, Florida	Served from August, 1972 until his death on January 20, 2020.
48 years	John Lewis Gay	Berea, Kentucky	Served from 1910 to 1958.
47 years, 11 months	Frank Kelly	Collingdale, Pennsylvania	Served from 1970 until his death on November 22, 2018.
	Nicholas B. Blase	Niles, Illinois	Served from May 2, 1961, until his resignation on August 25, 2008.
	Milt Kramer	Manchester, Iowa	Served from September 19, 1974, to January 1, 2022.
	Noel B. Cummings	Hodgkins, Illinois	Served from 1979 until his formal retirement was announced on Oct. 3, 2022 at the age of 95.
	H. Ford Gravitt	Cumming, Georgia	Served from January 1, 1971, to December 31, 2017.
46 years, 222 days	Joseph Sieb	Norridge, Illinois	Served from November 14, 1951, until his death on June 23, 1998.
45 years	Marvin Johnson	Independence, Minnesota	First elected in November 1979, retired on January 7, 2025.
44 years	Charles "Sonny" Penhale	Helena, Alabama	Served from 1968 to 2012.
44 years	Thomas M. Tartt	Livingston, Alabama	Served from 1980 to February 22, 2024.
44 years	Gerald H. Thompson	Fitzgerald, Georgia	Served from January 1, 1968, to January 1, 2012.
45 years	Richard A. Mola	Elmwood Park, New Jersey	Served from 1972 until his death in 2016.
	Paul W. Cassidy	Parma Heights, Ohio	Served from January, 1958 to January, 2001.
	Tom Reid	Pearland, Texas	Served from 1978 to 1990 and 1993 to May, 2020.
years	Gary W. Starr	Middleburg Heights, Ohio	Entered office in 1981.
	Erastus Corning II	Albany, New York	Served from January 2, 1942, to May 28, 1983.
	Harold Wayne Ford	Galva, KS	Served from June 6, 1977, to January 31, 2019. He was the longest serving mayor of Galva, KS.
41 years	Glenn L. Sisco	Kinnelon, New Jersey	Served from 1969 to 2010.
40 years 180 days	Duane Dawson	Milan, Illinois	Served from May 6, 1985, to November 3, 2025.
40 years	Dennis Satre	Hoffman, MN	Served from 1985 to 2025
40 years	George C. Clanton	Tappahannock, Virginia	Served from 1948 to 1988
40 years 34 days	Michael S. Einhorn	Crete, Illinois	Served from April 8, 1985 to May 12, 2025
	Joseph P. Riley Jr.	Charleston, South Carolina	Served from December 15, 1975, to January 11, 2016.
years	Louis Bay 2nd	Hawthorne, New Jersey	Served from 1947 to 1987.
	William W. Dickinson Jr.	Wallingford, Connecticut	Served from January 2, 1984, to December 31, 2023.
	John Ferrero	City of Industry, California	Served from Industry's incorporation in 1957 till his death on September 26, 1996.
37–38 years	James Eagan	Florissant, Missouri	Served from 1963 to 2000.
36 years	Ross Aragon	Pagosa Springs, Colorado	Served from 1978 to 2014
36 years	Randall Ramsey	Parma, Missouri	Served from 1962 to 1974 and from 1991 to 2015.
	Orville L. Hubbard	Dearborn, Michigan	Served from 1942 to 1978.
	Edward J. Zabrocki	Tinley Park, Illinois	Served from May 1, 1981, until his resignation in June, 2016.
34–35 years	Willis Conner	Dexter, Missouri	Served for about 35 years.
34–35 years	Glendel Stephenson	Mebane, North Carolina	Served from 1975 to 1983 and 1993 to 2019.
34 years	F. Edward Biertuempfel	Union Township, Union County, New Jersey	Served from 1939 to 1973
33 years, 10 months	David W. Smith	Newark, California	Served from March 1978 to December 2011
33 years, 3 months	Joseph Barabe	Mellen, Wisconsin	Served from April 1987 to April 2001 and April 2003 to July 2022
33 years	Richard A. Nowack	Oak Grove, Illinois	Served from May 2, 1978 until his death on September 20, 2011.
33 years	Joseph Smith	East Newark, New Jersey	Served from 1987 to 2020
32 years	Anthony Vacco	Evergreen Park, Illinois	Served from 1969 to 2001.
32 years	Shawn Hogan	Hornell, New York	Served from 1985 to 2017.
32 years	Kenneth J. Sims	Euclid, Ohio	Served from 1938 until his retirement in June 1970
31 years, 6 months	James A. Anzaldi	Clifton, New Jersey	Entered office July 1, 1990 and left office on December 31, 2022
	Frank Hague	Jersey City, New Jersey	Served from 1917 to 1947.
30 years	Richard Homrighausen	Dover, Ohio	Served from 1992 until his suspension from office in May 2022
30 years	Emmett Dofner Jr.	McClelland, Iowa	Served from 1987 until his death on May 2, 2017.
30 years	Glenn Lewis	Moore, Oklahoma	Served from 1994 until 2024
	Daniel R. Brooks	North College Hill, Ohio	Served from January 1, 1984, until his resignation on December 21, 2013
	Dr. LeRoy G. Suire	Erath, Louisiana	Served from 1961 to 1990.
	Willie Oswalt	Lake City, Georgia	Served from 1989 to 2018.
	Arnold Klentz	West Allis, Wisconsin	Served from April 18, 1944, until his death on March 5, 1973.
	Don Plusquellic	Akron, Ohio	Served from January 1, 1987, until his resignation on May 31, 2015.
28 years, 4 days	James Brainard	Carmel, Indiana	Served from January 1, 1996 to January 4, 2024
28 years	Paul Amico	Secaucus, New Jersey	Served from 1964 to 1992.
28 years	Henry Clark	Stephenville, Texas	Served from 1928 to 1956.
	Henry Maier	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Served from 1960 to 1988.
28 years	Walter A. Scott	Jackson, Mississippi	Served from 1917 to 1945.
28 years	Thomas Gerard Dunn	Elizabeth, New Jersey	1964 to 1992. Longest-serving mayor of a city of more than 100,000 people.
28 years	George H. Lysle	McKeesport, Pennsylvania	Served from 1914 to 1942.
	Stephen R. Reed	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	Served from 1982 to 2010.
	Don Robart	Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio	Served from 1986 to 2013.
26 years, 30 days	Miguel A. Pulido	Santa Ana, California	Served from 1994 to 2020.
26 years	Manuel Lamela Abreu	Quebradillas, Puerto Rico	Served from 1918 to 1944.
24 Years	Timothy Hanna	Appleton, Wisconsin	Served From 1996 to 2020.
24 Years	John Antaramian	Kenosha, Wisconsin	Served From 1992 to 2008 and 2016 to 2024.
23 Years	John W. Preece	Delbarton, West Virginia	Served from 1997 to 2019, was reelected in 2023, dying during his term