List of mayors of Jonesboro, Arkansas
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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States.
Mayors
| Name | Term | Election | Party affiliation | Refs. | |
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| W. N. Balfour | 1883 – 1885 |
Unknown | |||
| James R. Taylor | 1885 – 1886 |
Democratic | [1] | ||
| W. A. Maywood | 1886 – 1892 |
[1] | |||
| N. J. Thompson | 1892 | ||||
| Edward W. Hillis | 1892 – 1895 |
[2] | |||
| J. T. Stoddard | 1895 – 1896 |
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| A. E. Hastings | 1896 – 1899 |
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| Harry W. Applegate | 1809 – 1902 |
[1][3][4] | |||
| John B. Nichols | 1902 – 1905 |
[5][6] | |||
| E. F. Young | 1905 – 1907 |
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| Charles B. Gregg | 1907 – 1911 |
[1] | |||
| Tom Burress | 1911 – 1915 |
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| G. W. Turner | 1915 – 1917 |
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| Gordon Frierson | 1917 – 1921 |
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| Herbert Bosler | 1921 – 1927 |
[3][7] | |||
| Eli Whitney Collins | 1927 – 1929 |
[1] | |||
| Herbert Bosler | 1929 – 1947 |
[3][7] | |||
| Roy Penix | 1947 – 1949 |
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| Herbert Bosler | 1949 – 1953 |
[3][7] | |||
| Herbert Sanderson | 1953 – 1957 |
[3][8] | |||
| Ben Miller | 1958 – 1959 |
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| Herbert Sanderson | 1959 – 1966 |
[3][8] | |||
| Neil Stallings | 1967 – 1986 |
1968 1972 1976 1980 1982 |
[9] | ||
| Hubert Brodell | 1987 – 2004 |
1986 1990 1996 2000 |
[10][11] | ||
| Doug Formon | 2005 – 2009 |
2004 | [12] | ||
| Harold Perrin | 2009 – January 1, 2021 |
2008 2012 2016 |
[13][14] | ||
| Harold Copenhaver | January 1, 2021 – Incumbent |
2020 | Democratic | ||
See also
Notes
- ^ Aden Lynch, the first mayor, and Emmet Rodgers, who served before his death around 1900, are missing from this list, as may others.
References
- ^ a b c d e Harry Lee Williams (1930), History of Craighead County, Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark.: Parke-Harper Co. – via HathiTrust
- ^ Biographical and historical memoirs of northeast Arkansas, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889 – via HathiTrust
- ^ a b c d e f Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Mayors and Postmasters of Jonesboro, Arkansas", Political Graveyard, retrieved May 12, 2025
- ^ Arkansas, Bar Association of (1928). Proceedings of the Joint Sessions of the Bar Associations of Arkansas and Texas and of the Separate Sessions of the Bar Association of Arkansas and of the Texas Bar Association. The Association.
- ^ Moore, Albert Burton (1927). History of Alabama and Her People. American historical society, Incorporated.
- ^ The Southwestern Reporter. West Publishing Company. 1905.
- ^ a b c Dallas T. Herndon, ed. (1922), Centennial history of Arkansas, vol. 3, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company – via HathiTrust
- ^ a b Hudgins, Mary D. (1964). "The Jonesboro Meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association, 1964". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 23 (2): 184–189. ISSN 0004-1823.
- ^ Brown, Walter L. (1975). "The Jonesboro Meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 34 (4): 361–367. ISSN 0004-1823.
- ^ "City Council / Government", jonesboro.org, archived from the original on January 5, 1997 – via Wayback Machine
- ^ "Former Jonesboro mayor passes away", kait8.com, August 28, 2017
- ^ "City Council Reaction On Mayor's Announcement", kait8.com, January 3, 2008
- ^ "Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin not seeking re-election in 2020", kait8.com, July 22, 2020
- ^ Directory of Arkansas Elected Officials 2013-2014 (PDF), Arkansas Secretary of State Elections Division – via arkansas.gov