Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida

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|body = Tallahassee

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|insigniacaption = Seal of the City of Tallahassee

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|image = John E. Dailey (cropped).jpg

|incumbent = John E. Dailey

|incumbentsince = November 19, 2018

|style = The Honorable

|termlength = 4 years

|formation = 1826

|salary = $80,289

|inaugural = Charles Haire

|website = [https://talgov.com/Main/Home.aspx]

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The mayor of Tallahassee is head of the executive branch of the government of Tallahassee, Florida.

For part of the city's history the office of mayor was a rotating position chosen among city commissioners.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Mayoral-candidate-raises-the-question-of-a-position-overhaul--458071993.html|title = Mayoral candidate raises the question of a position overhaul}} Tallahassee switched to the direct election of its mayors in 1997.

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|Charles Haire

|1826

|{{cite web |url=http://vivafl500.org/find-a-city/ |title=Tallahassee, Leon County |work=Viva Florida |publisher=Florida League of Cities |location=Tallahassee |access-date= April 19, 2017 }} was elected Intendant

|David Ochiltree

|1827

|moved to Florida from Fayetteville, North Carolina.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24982821/do_elected_intendant_in_tallahassee/|title=d.o. elected intendant in Tallahassee, fla. 1827|website=Newspapers.com}}
He also served as a justice of the peace.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pg4aAQAAIAAJ&q=David+Ochiltree+florida|title=Virginia soldiers of 1776: compiled from documents on file in the Virginia Land Office; together with material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other reliable sources|first=Louis Alexander|last=Burgess|date=1 January 1973|publisher=Genealogical Pub. Co.|via=Google Books|isbn=9780806305295}}
Ochiltree died in 1834 at his residence on Rocky Comfort Creek (Florida).
He was a colonel and was a member elect of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida
for Gadsden County when he died.Floridian and Advocate (Tallahassee, Florida), Dec. 27, 1834, p. 3: Obituary

|John Y. Garey

|1828–1829

| He was a justice of the peace{{cite web |title=Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20440, Henry C Tucker, Va. |url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/111423766?objectPanel=transcription&objectPage=2 |website=National Archives Catalog |publisher=U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |access-date=7 February 2025 |page=2 |quote=Before me John Y. Gary [Garey], a Justice of the Peace in the County of Leon in the Territory of Florida Personally appeared this day William Witherington and Robert Watson of the said County who did severally make oath that Henry C. Tucker by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported and beleived [believed] to have been a private in the army of the Revolution in manner as therin stated. Witness my hand this 30th day of July 1828 John Y. Garey J.Peace [Justice of the Peace]}} and territorial auditor.{{cite web |title=Letter to the President of the Territorial Legislative Council from Territorial Auditor John Y. Garey, circa 1831 |url=https://floridamemory.com/items/show/347299 |website=Florida Memory |publisher=State Library and Archives of Florida |access-date=7 February 2025}} He was named on the first two issues of treasury notes in 1829 and 1830:{{cite web |last1=Youngerman |first1=Bill |title=Florida Currency |url=https://www.hometowncurrency.org/florida-currency/ |website=Hometown Currency Virtural Museum |access-date=7 February 2025 |quote=In 1821, as a result of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, Florida officially became a territory of the U.S. A and General Andrew Jackson was to be its first territorial governor. This new territory would get its first official currency by an act approved by the Territorial Legislative Council of Florida on Nov. 22, 1828. It provided for an issue of interest bearing Treasury Notes. Two distinct issues by Treasurer Davis Floyd were commissioned. The first dated January and February of 1829 in denominations of 50 cents, $1, $2, $3 and $5. The second release came in 1830 and 1831, with only $1, $2, $3 and $5. Both issues of notes are all signed by Davis Floyd, Territorial Treasurer and are all made payable to John Y. Garey, or bearer.}} "The Territory of Florida promises to pay John Y. Garey or bearer at the Treasury Office..."{{cite web |title=Territorial Treasury Note, One Dollar, 1830 |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326684 |website=Florida Memory |publisher=State Library and Archives of Florida |access-date=7 February 2025}}

Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida

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