title: List of mayors of Saint Paul, Minnesota
text: # List of mayors of Saint Paul, Minnesota
  
  This is a list of people who have served as mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
  
  ## Parties
  
  Democratic  Democratic–Farmer–Labor  Republican  Farmer–Labor  Independent
  
  | # | Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Thomas R. Potts | 1850 | 1851 | Independent |
  | 2 | Robert Kennedy | 1851 | 1852 | Independent |
  | 3 | Bushrod W. Lott | 1852 | 1854 | Democratic |
  | 4 | David Olmsted | 1854 | 1855 | Democratic |
  | 5 | Alexander Ramsey | 1855 | 1856 | Republican |
  | 6 | George Loomis Becker | 1856 | 1857 | Democratic |
  | 7 | John B. Brisbin | 1857 | 1858 | Democratic |
  | 8 | Norman Wolfred Kittson | 1858 | 1859 | Democratic |
  | 9 | Daniel A. Robertson | 1859 | 1860 | Democratic |
  | 10 | John S. Prince | 1860 | 1863 | Democratic |
  | 11 | John E. Warren | 1863 | 1864 | Democratic |
  | 12 | Jacob H. Stewart | 1864 | 1865 | Republican |
  | 13 | John S. Prince | 1865 | 1867 | Democratic |
  | 14 | George L. Otis | 1867 | 1868 | Democratic |
  | 15 | Jacob H. Stewart | 1868 | 1869 | Republican |
  | 16 | James T. Maxfield | 1869 | 1870 | Democratic |
  | 17 | William Lee | 1870 | 1872 | Democratic |
  | 18 | Jacob H. Stewart | 1872 | 1875 | Republican |
  | 19 | James T. Maxfield | 1875 | 1878 | Democratic |
  | 20 | William Dawson | 1878 | 1881 | Democratic |
  | 21 | Edmund Rice | 1881 | 1883 | Democratic |
  | 22 | Christopher D. O'Brien | 1883 | 1885 | Democratic |
  | 23 | Edmund Rice | 1885 | 1887 | Democratic |
  | 24 | Robert A. Smith | 1887 | 1892 | Democratic |
  | 25 | Frederick P. Wright | 1892 | 1894 | Republican |
  | 26 | Robert A. Smith | 1894 | 1896 | Democratic |
  | 27 | Frank Doran | 1896 | 1898 | Republican |
  | 28 | Andrew Kiefer | 1898 | 1900 | Republican |
  | 29 | Robert A. Smith | 1900 | 1908 | Democratic |
  | 30 | Daniel W. Lawler | 1908 | 1910 | Democratic |
  | 31 | Herbert P. Keller | 1910 | 1914 | Republican |
  | 32 | Winn Powers | 1914 | 1916 | Democratic |
  | 33 | Vivian R. Irvin | 1916 | 1918 | Republican |
  | 34 | Laurence C. Hodgson | 1918 | 1922 | Democratic |
  | 35 | Arthur E. Nelson | 1922 | 1926 | Republican |
  | 36 | Laurence C. Hodgson | 1926 | 1930 | Democratic |
  | 37 | Gerhard J. Bundlie | 1930 | 1932 | Independent |
  | 38 | William Mahoney | 1932 | 1934 | Farmer-Labor |
  | 39 | Mark H. Gehan | 1934 | 1938 | Independent |
  | 40 | William H. Fallon | 1938 | 1940 | Independent |
  | 41 | John J. McDonough | 1940 | 1948 | Democratic/DFL |
  | 42 | Edward K. Delaney | 1948 | 1952 | DFL |
  | 43 | John E. Daubney | 1952 | 1954 | Independent |
  | 44 | Joseph E. Dillon | 1954 | 1960 | DFL |
  | 45 | George J. Vavoulis | 1960 | 1966 | Independent |
  | 46 | Thomas R. Byrne | 1966 | 1970 | DFL |
  | 47 | Charles P. McCarty | 1970 | 1972 | DFL |
  | 48 | Lawrence D. Cohen | 1972 | 1976 | DFL |
  | 49 | George Latimer | 1976 | 1990 | DFL |
  | 50 | James Scheibel | 1990 | 1994 | DFL |
  | 51 | Norm Coleman | 1994 | 1996 | DFL |
  | 51 | Norm Coleman | 1996 | 2002 | Republican |
  | 52 | Randy Kelly | 2002 | January 3, 2006 | Independent |
  | 53 | Chris Coleman | January 3, 2006 | January 2, 2018 | DFL |
  | 54 | Melvin Carter III | January 2, 2018 | Incumbent | DFL |
  