Before 1884, Kalamazoo was a village, led by a village president. In 1884, Kalamazoo became incorporated as a city and the office of mayor was instituted.
List compiled by Kris Rzepczynski, former KPL staff member, 1998. Last updated November 2007.
1884
Allen Potter (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1885
Edwin W. DeYoe (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1886-1887
Peyton Ranney (Chapman Brothers, 1883)
1887-1889
Otto Ihling (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1890
William E. Hill (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1891
Frederick Bush (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1892
William E. Hill (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1893-1894
James W. Osborn (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1895
Otto Ihling (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1896
James Monroe (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1897-1898
Allan M. Stearns (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1899
William G. Howard (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1900-1901
Alfred J. Mills (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1902
Edmond S. Rankin (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1903
Samuel Folz (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1904
James W. Osborn (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1905
Walter R. Taylor (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1906-1907
William Thompson (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1908-1909
Frank H. Milham (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1910-1911
Charles H. Farrell (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1913-1914
Alfred B. Connable (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1915-1917
James B. Balch (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1919-1920
Albert J. Todd (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1921-1923
Cornelius Verburg (Photo: Dale B. Smith)
1923-1927
George K. Taylor (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1927-1928
Ernest A. Balch (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1928-1929
Edward M. Kennedy (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1929-1931
S. Rudolph Light (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1931-1933
Lewis C. Wright (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1933-1935
William Shakespeare, Jr. (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1935-1937
Paul H. Todd (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1937-1939
Arthur L. Blakeslee (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1939-1941
Frank E. McAllister (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1941-1943
Lou W. Collins (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1943-1945
Louis W. Sutherland (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
1945-1949
Henry Ford, Jr. (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
1949-1951
Paul H. Todd (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1951-1959
Glenn S. Allen, Jr. (Photo: Western Michigan University P-699.)
1959-1961
James S. Gilmore, Jr. (Photo courtesy, Encore Magazine.)
1961-1963
Paul E. Morrison (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1963-1967
Raymond L. Hightower (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1967-1969
Paul J. Schrier (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1969-1971
Francis P. Hamilton (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1973-1979
Francis P. Hamilton (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1979-1981
Edward J. Annen, Jr. (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1983-1985
Francis P. Hamilton (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1985-1991
Edward J. Annen, Jr. (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
1991-1993
Beverly A. Moore (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
1993-1995
Edward A. Annen, Jr. (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
1995-1997
Barbara A. Larson (Photo courtesy, Encore Magazine.)
1997-2005
Robert B. Jones (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
2005-2007
Hannah McKinney (Photo courtesy, Kalamazoo City Archives.)
2007-2019
Bobby Hopewell (Photo: Kalamazoo Public Library collection)
2019-current
David Anderson (Photo courtesy, City of Kalamazoo)