List of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia
{{Short description|List of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia, USA}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox Political post
| post = Mayor
| body = Huntington, West Virginia
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| incumbent = Patrick Farrell
| incumbentsince = 2025
| formation = 1871
| first = Peter Cline Buffington (1871 - 1874)
| website = [https://cityofhuntington.com/city-government/mayor/ Mayor's Office]
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This is a list of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America.{{cite web|publisher=The Political Graveyard|title=Mayors and Postmasters of Huntington, West Virginia|url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/huntington.html|access-date=November 24, 2024}}
History
Since 1985 Huntington, West Virginia has operated under a strong mayor/city council form of government.{{cite web|agency=The Associated Press|title=Huntington Charter|date=March 27, 2006|url=http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=9721|access-date=July 24, 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927034738/http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=9721|archive-date=September 27, 2007}} The mayor is elected to four-year terms in partisan elections contested at the same time as United States presidential elections. The current mayor is Patrick Farrell, a Republican who is currently in his first term. Mayors in Huntington are term-limited to three terms"[http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x883154579 Incumbent Felinton wins tight race] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906195408/http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x883154579 |date=September 6, 2008 }}", The Herald-Dispatch, May 13, 2008. and have the authority to veto acts of the city council.
Mayors
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| Order | Mayor | Term Began | Term Ended | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Cline Buffington | 1871 | 1874 | First mayor of Huntington, West Virginia{{cite book|title=Huntington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6GVdsK9R1gC|year=2003|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston, South Carolina|series=Images of America|isbn=978-0-7385-1599-1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308223318/https://books.google.com/books?id=g6GVdsK9R1gC|archive-date=March 8, 2017}} |
| 2 | Thomas J. Burke | 1874 | 1876 | |
| 3 | M. G. Nichols | 1876 | 1877 | |
| 4 | Thomas J. Burke | 1877 | 1878 | |
| 5 | J. M. Layne | 1878 | 1879 | |
| 6 | Edward S. Buffington | 1879 | 1880 | Son of Peter Cline Buffington{{cite web|title=Dr. Edward Stanard Buffington|url=https://mds.marshall.edu/cabell_wayne_hist_soc_collection/756/|access-date=November 28, 2024|publisher=Marshall Digital Scholar|date=2021}} |
| 7 | George Cullen | 1880 | 1882 | |
| 8 | J. M. Layne | 1882 | 1883 | |
| 9 | Hamilton Dickey | 1883 | 1884 | |
| 10 | A. L. Crider | 1884 | 1885 | |
| 11 | E. A. Bennett | 1885 | 1886 | |
| 12 | A. H. Woodworth | 1886 | 1887 | |
| 13 | Thomas S. Garland | 1887 | 1889 | |
| 14 | Thomas S. Garland | 1890 | 1891 | |
| 15 | Hamilton Dickey | 1891 | 1892 | |
| 16 | W. H. Bull | 1892 | 1893 | |
| 17 | George I. Neal | 1893 | 1895 | |
| 18 | C. R. Enlow | 1895 | 1896 | |
| 19 | Ely Ensign | 1896 | 1896 | |
| 20 | William F. Hite | 1897 | 1898 | |
| 21 | Charles A. Nash | 1898 | 1899 | |
| 22 | H. A. Brandebury | 1899 | 1901 | |
| 23 | H. C. Gordon | 1901 | 1903 | |
| 24 | Charles M. Buck | 1903 | 1905 | |
| 25 | H. C. Gordon | 1905 | 1906 | |
| 26 | John W. Ensign | 1906 | 1908 | |
| 27 | John B. Stevenson | 1908 | 1909 | |
| 28 | Rufus Switzer | 1909 | 1912 | |
| 29 | Floyd S. Chapman | 1912 | 1915 | |
| 30 | Edmund Sehon | 1915 | 1918 | {{cite book |title=History of West Virginia, Old and New |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwestvir02call |year=1923 |publisher=American Historical Society, Inc. |location=Chicago |oclc=42346040 }} |
| 31 | Leon S. Wiles | 1918 | 1918 | Died in office |
| 32 | Charles W. Campbell | 1919 | 1922 | |
| 33 | Will E. Neal | 1925 | 1928 | |
| 34 | J. Boyce Taylor | 1928 | 1929 | |
| 35 | Porter W. Smith | 1930 | 1934 | |
| 36 | Martin V. Chapman | 1935 | 1935 | |
| 37 | George R. Seamonds | 1937 | 1939 | |
| 38 | Claude V. Swann | 1940 | 1942 | |
| 39 | Paul O. Fiedler | 1943 | 1946 | |
| 40 | Douglas C. Tomkies | 1947 | 1948 | |
| 41 | W. W. Payne | 1949 | 1952 | |
| 42 | Cecil C. Thompson | 1953 | 1954 | |
| 43 | George E. Theurer | 1955 | 1955 | |
| 44 | Harold L. Frankel | 1957 | 1959 | |
| 45 | Robert O. Ellis, Jr. | 1959 | 1959 | |
| 46 | John J. Durkin | 1961 | 1961 | |
| 47 | George Garner | 1962 | 1963 | |
| 48 | A. E. Harris | 1964 | 1964 | |
| 49 | John B. Meek | 1965 | 1965 | |
| 50 | R. O. Robertson, Jr. | 1966 | 1966 | |
| 51 | Owen L. Duncan | 1967 | 1967 | |
| 52 | Gordon Miller | 1968 | 1968 | |
| 53 | Robert V. Bolling | 1969 | 1969 | |
| 54 | Robert E. Hinerman | 1970 | 1970 | |
| 55 | Milton T. Herndon | 1971 | 1971 | |
| 56 | Gordon T. Millard | 1972 | 1972 | |
| 57 | Owen L. Duncan | 1973 | 1973 | |
| 58 | Phyllis Cyrus | 1973 | 1974 | |
| 59 | Harold L. Frankel | 1974 | 1975 | |
| 60 | J. A. Caldwell | 1975 | 1976 | |
| 61 | Harold L. Frankel | 1977 | 1978 | {{cite web|title= (l to r) Harold Frankel, Ken Hechler, David Brinkley, 1959|url=https://mds.marshall.edu/bliss_enslow_add/13/|access-date=November 28, 2024|publisher=Marshall Digital Scholar}} |
| 62 | George Malott | 1978 | 1978 | |
| 63 | Dean Sturm | 1979 | 1980 | {{cite web|title=Lost Huntington: Remembering Dean Strum|url=https://www.herald-dispatch.com/special/lost_huntington/lost-huntington-remembering-dean-sturm/article_3ce0fd0f-8cc5-5010-b97c-65bc5b832ed0.html|access-date=November 28, 2024|publisher=Herald Dispatch|last=Casto|first=James|date=October 11, 2022}} |
| 64 | William D. Toney | 1981 | 1981 | |
| 65 | Robert P. Alexander | 1982 | 1983 | {{cite web|title=Dr. Robert P. Alexander (1999-2000)
|url=https://www.marshall.edu/drinko/scholarship-and-creative-production/dr-robert-p-alexander-1999-2000/|access-date=November 28, 2024|publisher=Marshall University}} |