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Mayor of Sacramento
Seal of the City of Sacramento
Flag of the City of Sacramento
Incumbent Kevin McCarty since December 10, 2024
Type	Mayor
Formation	1849
First holder	William Stout

This is a list of mayors of Sacramento, California. The Sacramento City Council met for the first time on August 1, 1849, and the citizens approved the city charter on October 13, 1849. The City Charter was recognized by the State of California on February 27, 1850, and Sacramento was incorporated on March 18, 1850.

List of mayors of Sacramento
#	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Notes and references
1	William Stout	1849		Spent three weeks in office
2	Albert Maver Winn	1849
3	Hardin Bigelow	April 1, 1850	November 1850	The first elected mayor of Sacramento
4	James Richmond Hardenberg	November 1850	1851
5	C. I. Hutchinson	1852
6	James Richmond Hardenberg	1853
7	R. P. Johnson	1854
8	James Lawrence English	1855		Later served as the California State Treasurer
9	Benjamin Barnard Redding	1856	1857	Born in Canada
10	Joseph P. Dyer	1857
11	Henry Lambard Nichols	1858		Later served as Secretary of State of California
12	William Shattuck	1859	1862
13	Charles Heman	1863	1871
14	Christopher Green	1872	1877
15	Jabez Turner	1878	1880	Elected on what was known as the State Workingmen's ticket
16	John Q. Brown	1881	1887	Father of mayor John Q. Brown (1918-1920)
17	Eugene J. Gregory	1887	1888
18	William D. Comstock	1889	1892
19	Bernard U. Steinman	1893	1895	First Jewish mayor of Sacramento
20	Cyrus H. Hubbard	1896	1897
21	William Land	1898	1899
22	George H. Clark	1900	1903
23	William J. Hassett	1904	1905
24	Marshall R. Beard	1906	1907
25	Clinton L. White	1908	1909
26	Marshall R. Beard	1910	1912
27	Michael J. Burke	1912	1915
28	Gustavaus C. Simmons	1915	1916
29	Daniel W. Carmichael	1916	1918
30	John Q. Brown	1918	1920	Son of former mayor John Q. Brown (1881-1887)
31	Charles A. Bliss	1920	1921
32	Albert Elkus	1921	1925	First mayor to be born within city boundaries
33	Alexander E. Goddard	1926	1927
34	Ralph E. Conley	1928	1928	Resigned effective October 15, 1928
35	Martin I. Welsh	1928	1930	Ran for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1930
36	C. H. S. Bidwell	1930	1933
37	Thomas P. Scollan	1934	1935
38	Arthur D. Ferguson	1936	1937
39	Thomas B. Monk	1938	1945
40	George L. Klumpp	1946	1947
41	Belle Cooledge	1948	1949	First female mayor
42	Bert E. Geisreiter	1950	1951
43	Leslie E. Wood	1952	1953
44	William A. Hicks	1954		Resigned from office
45	H. H. Hendren	1954	1955
46	Clarence L. Azevedo	1956	1959
47	James B. McKenney	1960	1965
48	Walter Christensen	1966	1967
49	Richard H. Marriott	1968	1975
50	Phil Isenberg	1975	1982	Later served in the California State Assembly
51	R. Burnett Miller	1983
52	Anne Rudin	1983	January 2, 1993	First elected female mayor in Sacramento
53	Joe Serna, Jr.	January 2, 1993	November 7, 1999	First Hispanic-American to be elected as mayor (died in office)
Vacant		November 7, 1999	December 14, 1999
–	Jimmie R. Yee (interim)	December 14, 1999	November 27, 2000	First Asian-American mayor
54	Heather Fargo	November 27, 2000	December 2, 2008	Second elected female mayor in Sacramento
55	Kevin Johnson	December 2, 2008	December 13, 2016	First African-American mayor and former NBA player
56	Darrell Steinberg	December 13, 2016	December 10, 2024
57	Kevin McCarty	December 10, 2024	Incumbent

References

^ "Sacto Facto". Center for Sacramento History. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
"Bernard Ulmer Steinman, Jewish Pioneer Businessman, Civil Servant and Mayor of Sacramento, California". Jmaw.org. Jewish Museum of the American West. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
"Nurseryman, Former Mayor Bert Geisreiter, 83, Dies". Sacramento Bee. June 20, 1987. Retrieved 2012-09-15. Bert E. Geisreiter, a former Sacramento mayor who first ran for election in 1947 as a last-minute candidate and ended up serving nine years on the City Council, died at home Friday following a long illness. He was 83. ...

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