Mayor of Topeka, Kansas

Mayor of Topeka
Incumbent Mike Padilla since January 4, 2022
Inaugural holder	Loring Farnsworth
Formation	19th Century
Website	www.topeka.org/mayor

List of Mayors

The following is a list of mayors of the American city of Topeka, Kansas.

Mayor	Years of Service
Loring Farnsworth	1858–59
Lorenzo Dow	March – June 2, 1859^[1]
Col. Cyrus K. Holliday	1859–60
Hiram W. Farnsworth	1860–61
Harris F. Otis	1861–62
N.W. Cox	1862–63
J.F. Cummings	1863–64
Samuel H. Fletcher	1864–65
Maj. W. W. Ross	1865–66
Ross Burns	1866–67
Col. Cyrus K. Holliday	1867–68
Orin T. Welch	1868–69
Col. Cyrus K. Holliday	1869–70
Rev. J.B. McAfee	1870–71
Orin T. Welch	1871–73
Maj. Henry Bartling	1873–75
Maj. Thos J. Anderson	1875–77
M.H. Case	1877–81
Joseph C. Wilson	1861–83
Michael Heery	1883
Bradford Miller	1883–85
Rosswell L. Cofran	1885–87
Judge D.C. Metsker	1887–89
Rosswell L. Cofran	1889–93
Dr. D.C. Jones	1893–11
Col. T.W. Harrison
Chas A. Fellows
Chas J. Drew	1899–1901
Gen. J.W.F. Hughes	1901–02
Albert Parker	1902–03
W.S. Bergundthol
W.H. Davis	1905–07
William Green	1907–10
J.B. Billard	1910–13
Rosswell L. Cofran	1913–15
Jay E. House	1915–19
Herbert J. Corwine	1919–23
Earl Akers	1923–25
James E. Thomas	1925–27
W.O. Rigby	1927–31
Omar B. Ketchum	1931–35
Herbert G. Barrett	1935–39
John F. Scott	1939–41
Frank J. Warren	1941–51
W. Kenneth Wilke	1951–53
George C. Schnellbacher	1953–59
E.J. Camp	1959–63
Hal W. Gerlach	1963–65
Chuck Wright	1965–69
Gene C. Martin	1969–71
William B. McCormick	1971–83
Douglas S. Wright	1983–89
Harry “Butch” Felker	1989–97
Joan Wagnon	1997–2001
Harry “Butch” Felker	2001–03
Duane Pomeroy	2003–04
James A. McClinton	2004–05
Bill Bunten	2005–13
Larry Wolgast	2013–2018
Michelle De La Isla	2018–2022
Mike Padilla	2022–present

See also

•  Biography portal
•  Kansas portal
•  Lists portal
•  Politics portal

• List of people from Topeka, Kansas
• Timeline of Topeka, Kansas

References

1. "Thirty years in Topeka: a historical sketch - Frye William Giles - Google Books". Retrieved August 26, 2012 – via Google Books.

Sources