History of the Mayor's Office

Huntington's Mayors

Since incorporation as a town in 1848:

  • Dr. Able M. Lewis*: Feb. 16, 1848 - March 1851; March 1855 - March 1856
  • William C. Smith: March 1851 - March 1852
  • Marvin Hecox: March 1852 - March 1855
  • William C. Kocher*: March 1856 - March 1857; May 1857 - March 1858; March 1862 - March 1865; March 1866 - March 1867
  • Henry Drover: March 1857 - May 1857
  • Dr. L.C. Pomeroy: March 1858 - March 1860
  • Frederick Kopp: March 1860 - March 1861
  • Joseph Z. Scott: March 1861 - March 1862
  • Samuel F. Day*: March 1865 - March 1866; March 1867 - March 1868
  • B.F. Hendrix: March 1868 - March 1869
  • Peter L. Pauelus: March 1869 - March 1870
  • William Brown: March 1870 - March 16, 1870
  • Porter Ayres: March 16, 1870 - April 1871
  • Richard A. Curran: April 1871 - March 1872
  • William M. Thomas: March 1872 - March 1873
  • George Washington Stults: March 1873 - September 17, 1873

Since re-incorporation as a city in 1873:

  • George Washington Stults: September 17, 1873 - 1878
  • Samuel F. Day*: 1878-1880; 1884-1890
  • Lawrence P. Boyle: 1880-1884
  • William Randolph: 1890-1892
  • Zach T. Dungan*: 1892-1894; 1898-1902; 1930-1933
  • Simon T. Cast: 1894-1898
  • DeWitt Anderson*: 1902-1904; 1906-1910
  • J. Fred France: 1904-1906
  • Milo Feightner: 1910-1914
  • Pat McCarty: 1914-1916
  • Patrick Gorman: 1916-1918
  • Charles McGrew: 1918-1922
  • Clarence Juillerat: 1922-1926
  • Charles W. Snider: 1926-1929
  • C.W.H. Bangs: 1934-1937
  • Foster Cutshall: 1938-1941
  • Roy Howell: 1943-1951
  • Garl Rudicell: 1952-1955
  • DeVon Blackburn: 1956-1959
  • Robert E. Ambler: 1960-1967
  • John F. Knop: 1968-1975
  • Wallace P. Smith: 1976-1979
  • Maurice Robbins: 1980-1983
  • Ron Schenkel: 1984-1991
  • Gene Snowden: 1992-1995
  • Robert J. Kyle: 1996-1999
  • Terry Abbett: 2000-2007
  • Steve Updike: 2008-2011
  • Brooks Fetters: 2012-2019
  • Richard Strick: 2020-Present

*Non-consecutive terms