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List of Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee 1806-Present List of Mayors of Nashville, Tennessee 1806-Present Mayors of the City of Nashville The following is a list of mayors of Nashville before it had a consolidated metropolitan government. Mayor Term Joseph Coleman 1806-1809 Benjamin J. Bradford 1809-1811 William Tait 1811-1814 Joseph Thorpe Elliston 1814-1817 Stephen Cantrell, Jr. 1817-1818 Felix Robertson 1818-1819 Thomas Crutcher 1819-1820 James Condon 1820-1821 John Patton Erwin 1821-1822 Robert Brownlee Currey 1822-1824 Randal McGavock 1824-1825 Wilkins F. Tannehill 1825-1827 Felix Robertson 1827-1829 William Armstrong 1829-1833 John Meredith Bass 1833-1834 John Patton Erwin 1834-1835 William Nichol 1835-1837 Henry Hollingsworth 1837-1839 Charles Clay Trabue 1839-1841 Samuel Van Dyke Stout 1841-1842 Thomas B. Coleman 1842-1843 Powhaten W. Maxey 1843-1845 John Hugh Smith 1845-1846 John A. Goodlett 1846-1847 Alexander Allison 1847-1849 John McCormick Lea 1849-1850 John Hugh Smith 1850-1853 William Hartley Horn 1853-1854 William Booker Shapard 1854-1854 Robert Bell Castleman 1854-1856 Andrew Anderson 1856-1857 John A. McEwen 1857-1858 Randal William McGavock 1858-1859 Samuel N. Hollingsworth 1859-1860 Richard Boone Cheatham 1860-1862 John Hugh Smith 1862-1865 William Matt Brown 1865-1867 Augustus E. Alden 1867-1869 John Meredith Bass 1869-1869 Kindred Jenkins Morris 1869-1871 Thomas A. Kercheval 1871-1874 Morton Boyte Howell 1874-1875 Thomas A. Kercheval 1875-1883 Claiborne Hooper Phillips 1883-1886 Thomas A. Kercheval 1886-1888 Charles P. McCarver 1888-1890 William Litterer 1890-1891 George Blackmore Guild 1891-1895 William Marshall McCarthey 1895-1897 Richard Houston Dudley 1897-1900 James Marshall Head 1900-1904 Albert Smiley Williams 1904-1906 Thomas Owen Morris 1906-1908 James Stephens Brown 1908-1909 Hilary Ewing Howse 1909-1915 Robert Ewing 1915-1917 William Gupton 1917-1921 Felix Zollicoffer Wilson 1921-1922 William Percy Sharpe 1922-1924 Hilary Ewing Howse 1924-1938 Thomas Leon Cummings 1938-1951 Ben West 1951-1963 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: Mayor Term C. Beverly Briley 1963-1975 Richard Fulton 1975-1987 William H. Boner 1987-1991 Philip N. Bredesen 1991-1999 Bill Purcell 1999-2007 Karl Dean 2007-2015 Megan Barry 2015-2018 David Briley 2018-Present .
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