List of mayors of Greensboro, North Carolina
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This is a list of mayors of Greensboro since 1859 when the current system of electing mayors replaced the intendant of police.{{cite web|url=https://greensboro.com/news/leaders-they-ve-seen-city-through-change/article_e2c0e94a-3390-57f2-a6b5-549bc9c8f30c.html|title=Leaders: They’ve seen city through change|publisher=News & Record|website=Greensboro|author=Nelson Kepley|access-date=January 3, 2021|date=Feb 18, 2008}}{{cite book|title=Greensboro, 1808-1904: Facts, Figures, Traditions, and Reminiscences|language=English|pages=39–41|date=January 1904|first=James W.|last=Albright|publisher=Jos. J. Stone}}
{{Elections in North Carolina}}
List of mayors
| class="wikitable sortable"
! align=center|# ! Mayor ! Term start ! Term end |
| 1
|Charles G. Yates |1857 |1861 |
| 2
|Alexander P. Eckel |1861 |1863 |
| 3
|Richard Sterling |1864 |1865 |
| 4
|William L. Scott |1865 |1869 |
| 5
|R. M. Sloan |1870 |1873 |
| 6
|Cyrus P. Mendenhall |1874 |1876 |
| 7
|S. C. Dodson |1877 |1883 |
| 8
|R. R. King Sr. |1883 |1885 |
| 9
|J. A. Barringer |1887 |1888 |
| 10
|James W. Forbis |1889 |1891 |
| 11
|J. R. Mendenhall |1892 |1893 |
| 12
|John A. Barrninger |1893 |1894 |
| 13
|James E. Boyd |1894 |1895 |
| 14
|J. J. Nelson |1895 |1898 |
| 15
|Z. V. Taylor |1899 |1900 |
| 16
|William H. Osborne |1901 |1903 |
| 17
|T. J. Murphy |1905 |1907 |
| 18
|L. J. Brandt |1907 |1909 |
| 19
|E. J. Stafford |1909 |1911 |
| 20
|T.J. Murphy |1911 |1917 |
| 21
|E. J. Stafford (2 terms) |1917 |1921 |
| 22
|Claude Kiser |1921 |1923 |
| 23
|E. B. Jeffress |1925 |1927 |
| 24
|R. R. King Jr. |1927 |1929 |
| 25
|Paul C. Lindley |1931 |1933 |
| 26
|Roger W. Harrison (resigned) |1933 |1937 |
| 27
|Ralph L. Lewis (resigned) |1939 |1940 |
| 28
|Huger King |1940 |1941 |
| 29
|W. H. Sullivan |1942 |1943 |
| 30
|C. M. Vanstory Jr. |1945 |1947 |
| 31
|Fielding L. Fry |1947 |1949 |
| 32
|Benjamin Cone |1949 |1951 |
| 33
|Robert H. Frazier |1951 |1953 |
| 34
|R. Boyd Morris (resigned) |1955 |1956 |
| 35
|J. Archie Cannon Jr. |1956 |1957 |
| 36
|George H. Roach |1957 |1961 |
| 37
|David Schenck |1961 |1965 |
| 38
|W. L. Trotter Jr. |1965 |1967 |
| 39
|Carson Bain |1967 |1969 |
| 40
|H. J. Elam III |1969 |1971 |
| 41
|Jim Melvin (5 terms) |1971 |1981 |
| 42
|John W. Forbis (3 terms) |1981 |1987 |
| 43
|Vic Nussbaum Jr. (3 terms) |1987 |1993 |
| 44
|Carolyn S. Allen (3 terms) |1993 |1999 |
| 45
|Keith Holliday (4 terms) |1999 |2007 |
| 46
|2007 |2009 |
| 47
|William H. Knight{{cite web|url=https://greensboro.com/news/local_news/ex-mayor-bill-knight-to-seek-greensboro-council-seat/article_3bd5f9b0-c96e-11e2-aa71-001a4bcf6878.html|publisher=News & Record|website=Greensboro|author=Nelson Kepley|access-date=January 3, 2021|date=May 30, 2013|title=Ex-mayor Bill Knight to seek Greensboro council seat}}{{cite web |title=November 03, 2009 Results |url=https://www.guilfordcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument?id=852 |publisher=Guilford County |accessdate=3 January 2021}} |2009 |2011 |
| 48
|2011 |2013 |
| 49
|Nancy Vaughan (3 terms) |2013 |present |