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Mayor of Topeka, Kansas

{{short description|Head executive of the Topeka government}}

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|incumbent = Mike Padilla

|incumbentsince = January 4, 2022

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|inaugural = Loring Farnsworth

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List of Mayors

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The following is a list of mayors of the American city of Topeka, Kansas.{{cite web|url=http://www.topeka.org/mayor/150mayors.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629104452/http://www.topeka.org/mayor/150mayors.shtml|title=150 Years of Topeka Mayors|work=City of Topeka|archive-date=June 29, 2013}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JGCWvas3IkC&pg=PA158|title=History of Shawnee County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens|year=1905|publisher=Richmond & Arnold|editor-last=King|editor-first=James L.}}

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ImageMayorYears of service
|Loring Farnsworth1858–1859
|Lorenzo DowMarch – June 2, 1859{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxcVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA127 |title=Thirty years in Topeka: a historical sketch - Frye William Giles - Google Books |via=Google Books|date= |accessdate=2012-08-26}}
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|Cyrus K. Holliday

1859–1860
|Hiram W. Farnsworth1860–1861
|Harris F. Otis1861–1862
|Noah W. Cox1862–1863
|Joseph F. Cummings1863–1864
|Samuel H. Fletcher1864–1865
|William W. Ross1865–1866
|Ross Burns1866–1867
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|Cyrus K. Holliday

1867–1868
|Orrin T. Welch1868–1869
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|Cyrus K. Holliday

1869–1870
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|Josiah B. McAfee

1870–1871
|Orrin T. Welch1871–1873
|Henry Bartling1873–1875
|Thomas J. Anderson1875–1877
|Milton H. Case1877–1881
|Joseph C. Wilson1881–1883
|Michael Heery1883
|Bradford Miller1883–1885
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|Roswell L. Cofran

1885–1887
|David C. Metsker1887–1889
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|Roswell L. Cofran

1889–1893
|Daniel C. Jones1893
|Thomas W. Harrison1893–1895
|Charles A. Fellows1895–1899
|Charles J. Drew1899–1901
|James W. F. Hughes1901–1902
|Albert Parker1902–1903
|William S. Bergundthal1903–1905
|William H. Davis1905–1907
|William Green1907–1910
|Julius B. Billard1910–1913
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|Roswell L. Cofran

1913–1915
|Jay E. House1915–1919
|Herbert J. Corwine1919–1923
|Earl Akers1923–1925
|James E. Thomas{{citation |url= https://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?categories=3750 |title=Places - Cities and towns - Topeka |work=kansasmemory.org |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date= 2024-11-24 }}1925–1927
|William O. Rigby1927–1931
|Omar B. Ketchum1931–1935
|Herbert G. Barrett1935–1939
|John F. Scott1939–1941
|Frank J. Warren1941–1951
|W. Kenneth Wilke1951–1953
|George C. Schnellbacher1953–1959
|Ed J. Camp1959–1963
|Hal W. Gerlach1963–1965
|Chuck Wright1965–1969
|Gene C. Martin1969–1971
|William B. McCormick1971–1983
|Douglas S. Wright1983–1989
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|Butch Felker

1989–1997
|Joan Wagnon1997–2001
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|Butch Felker

2001–2003
|Duane Pomeroy2003–2004
|James McClinton2004–2005
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|Bill Bunten

2005–2013
|Larry Wolgast2013–2018
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|Michelle De La Isla

2018–2022
|Mike Padilla2022–present

See also

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References

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