Occupation – Government – Mayor
Paul W. Montgomery (1951 -)
Paul W. Montgomery, born October 5, 1951, became the first Black mayor of Kingsport, Tennessee, on September 1, 2024, for...
Sam Jones (1947- )
Samuel Leon Jones, the first African American mayor of Mobile, Alabama, was born in Mobile on April 14, 1947. He...
Melvin Lee “Kip” Holden (1952- )
Melvin Lee “Kip” Holden is an American politician who in 2004 became the first African American Mayor-President of East Baton...
Penfield Wallace “Pen” Tate II (1931-1993)
Penfield Tate II was a politician, LGBTQ supporter, and Boulder, Colorado’s first African American mayor. Tate was born on June...
Oscar DuConge (1909-1978)
Oscar DuConge, a resilient politician, overcame the odds to become Waco, Texas’s first African American mayor. Born on April 19,...
William Stanford Hart Sr. (1925-1999)
Williams Stanford Hart Sr was a politician who served as mayor of East Orange, New Jersey between 1970 and 1978....
Johnny DuPree (1953- )
The first African American mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Johnny DuPree was also the longest serving mayor of that city. DuPree...
Byron Brown (1958- )
The first African American mayor of Buffalo, New York, Byron Brown, was born on September 24, 1958 in Hollis, Queens,...
George Carroll (1922-2016)
George Carroll made history in 1964, as the first African American to be elected mayor of Richmond, California which made...
