The Mayor of Nashville is the chief executive of the government of Nashville, Tennessee. The current mayor is Freddie O'Connell. Each mayor serves a term of four years, with a limit of two consecutive terms, unless this is interrupted by a legal mechanism, such as a recall election.
Mayors of the City of Nashville
The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville before it had a consolidated metropolitan government:
Pre-Civil War
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! Term
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| width="170" | Joseph Coleman
| width="100" | 1806–1809
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| Benjamin J. Bradford
| 1809–1811
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| William Tait
| 1811–1814
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| Joseph Thorpe Elliston
| 1814–1817
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| Stephen Cantrell Jr.
| 1817–1817
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| Felix Robertson
| 1818–1819
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| Thomas Crutcher
| 1819–1820
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| James Condon
| 1820–1821
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| John Patton Erwin
| 1821–1822
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| Robert Brownlee Currey
| 1822–1824
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| Randal McGavock
| 1824–1825
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| Wilkins F. Tannehill
| 1825–1827
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| Felix Robertson
| 1827–1829
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| William Armstrong
| 1829–1833
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| John Meredith Bass
| 1833–1834
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| John Patton Erwin
| 1834–1835
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| William Nichol
| 1835–1837
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| Henry Hollingsworth
| 1837–1839
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| Charles Clay Trabue
| 1839–1841
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| Samuel Van Dyke Stout
| 1841–1842
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| Thomas B. Coleman
| 1842–1843
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| Powhatan W. Maxey
| 1843–1845
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| John Hugh Smith
| 1845–1846
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| John A. Goodlett
| 1846–1847
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| Alexander Allison
| 1847–1849
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| John McCormick Lea
| 1849–1850
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| John Hugh Smith
| 1850–1853
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| Williamson Hartley Horn
| 1853–1854
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| William Booker Shapard
| 1854–1854
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| Robert Bell Castleman
| 1854–1856
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| Andrew Anderson
| 1856–1857
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| John A. McEwen
| 1857–1858
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| Randal William McGavock
| 1858–1859
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| Samuel N. Hollingsworth
| 1859–1860
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Civil War and Reconstruction
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! Mayor
! Term
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| width="170" | Richard Boone Cheatham
| width="100" | 1860–1862
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| John Hugh Smith
| 1862–1865
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| William Matt Brown
| 1865–1867
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| Augustus E. Alden
| 1867–1869
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| John Meredith Bass
| 1869–1869
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| Kindred Jenkins Morris
| 1869–1871
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| Thomas A. Kercheval
| 1871–1874
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| Morton Boyte Howell
| 1874–1875
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Post-Reconstruction
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! Mayor
! Term
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| width="170" | Thomas A. Kercheval
| width="100" | 1875–1883
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| Claiborne Hooper Phillips
| 1883–1886
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| Thomas A. Kercheval
| 1886–1888
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| Charles P. McCarver
| 1888–1890
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| William Litterer
| 1890–1891
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| George Blackmore Guild
| 1891–1895
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| William Marshall McCarthey
| 1895–1897
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| Richard Houston Dudley
| 1897–1900
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| James Marshall Head
| 1900–1904
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| Albert Smiley Williams
| 1904–1906
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| Thomas Owen Morris
| 1906–1908
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| James Stephens Brown
| 1908–1909
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| Hilary Ewing Howse
| 1909–1915
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| Robert Ewing
| 1915–1917
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| William Gupton
| 1917–1921
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| Felix Zollicoffer Wilson
| 1921–1922
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| William Percy Sharpe
| 1922–1924
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| Hilary Ewing Howse
| 1924–1938
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| Thomas L. Cummings, Sr.
| 1938–1951
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| Ben West
| 1951–1963
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Mayors of Metropolitan Nashville
The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville after the consolidation of the municipal government with the government of Davidson County:
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! Mayor
! Term
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| width="170" | Beverly Briley
| width="100" | 1963–1975
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| 75px
| Richard Fulton
| 1975–1987
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| 75px
| Bill Boner
| 1987–1991
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| 75px
| Phil Bredesen
| 1991–1999
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| 75px
| Bill Purcell
| 1999–2007
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| 75px
| Karl Dean
| 2007–2015
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| 75px
| Megan Barry
| 2015–2018
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| 75px
| David Briley
| 2018–2019
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| 75px
| John Cooper
| 2019–2023
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| Freddie O'Connell
| 2023–present
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See also
- Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee