Mayor of San Francisco

Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco
Seal of San Francisco
Incumbent London Breed since July 11, 2018
Style	Madam Mayor
Term length	Four years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	John W. Geary
Formation	1850
Salary	$342, 974 (annually)
Website	Office of the Mayor

The Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco is the head of the executive branch of the San Francisco city and county government.

List of mayors

There have been 44 mayors of San Francisco from 1850, when California became a state, until 2023.

#	Image	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party
1		John W. Geary	May 1, 1850	May 4, 1851		Independent
2		Charles James Brenham	May 5, 1851	December 31, 1851		Whig
3		Stephen Randall Harris	January 1, 1852	November 9, 1852		Democratic
(2)		Charles James Brenham	November 10, 1852	October 2, 1853		Whig
4		Cornelius Kingsland Garrison	October 3, 1853	October 1, 1854		Whig
5		Stephen Palfrey Webb	October 2, 1854	June 30, 1855		Know Nothing
6		James Van Ness	July 1, 1855	July 7, 1856		Democratic
7		George J. Whelan	July 8, 1856	November 14, 1856		American
8		Ephraim Willard Burr	November 15, 1856	October 2, 1859		American
9		Henry F. Teschemacher	October 3, 1859	June 30, 1863		Populist
10		Henry Perrin Coon	July 1, 1863	December 1, 1867		Populist
11		Frank McCoppin	December 2, 1867	December 5, 1869		Democratic
12		Thomas Henry Selby	December 6, 1869	December 3, 1871		Republican
13		William Alvord	December 4, 1871	November 30, 1873		Republican
14		James Otis	December 1, 1873	October 30, 1875		Populist
15		George Hewston	November 4, 1875	December 5, 1875		Democratic
16		Andrew Jackson Bryant	December 6, 1875	November 30, 1879		Populist
17		Isaac Smith Kalloch	December 1, 1879	December 4, 1881		Workingmen's
18		Maurice Carey Blake	December 5, 1881	January 7, 1883		Republican
19		Washington Bartlett	January 8, 1883	January 2, 1887		Democratic
20		Edward B. Pond	January 3, 1887	January 4, 1891		Democratic
21		George Henry Sanderson	January 5, 1891	January 3, 1893		Republican
22		Levi Richard Ellert	January 3, 1893	January 6, 1895		Republican
23		Adolph Sutro	January 7, 1895	January 3, 1897		Populist
24		James D. Phelan	January 4, 1897	January 7, 1902		Democratic
25		Eugene Schmitz	January 8, 1902	July 8, 1907		Union Labor
26		Charles Boxton	July 9, 1907	July 16, 1907		Union Labor
27		Edward Robeson Taylor	July 16, 1907	January 7, 1910		Democratic
28		P. H. McCarthy	January 8, 1910	January 7, 1912		Union Labor
29		James Rolph	January 8, 1912	January 6, 1931		Republican
30		Angelo Joseph Rossi	January 7, 1931	January 7, 1944		Republican
31		Roger Lapham	January 8, 1944	January 7, 1948		Republican
32		Elmer Robinson	January 8, 1948	January 7, 1956		Republican
33		George Christopher	January 8, 1956	January 7, 1964		Republican
34		John F. Shelley	January 8, 1964	January 7, 1968		Democratic
35		Joseph Alioto	January 8, 1968	January 7, 1976		Democratic
36		George Moscone	January 8, 1976	November 27, 1978		Democratic
37		Dianne Feinstein	December 4, 1978	January 7, 1988		Democratic
38		Art Agnos	January 8, 1988	January 7, 1992		Democratic
39		Frank Jordan	January 8, 1992	January 7, 1996		Democratic
40		Willie Brown	January 8, 1996	January 7, 2004		Democratic
41		Gavin Newsom	January 8, 2004	January 10, 2011		Democratic
42		Ed Lee	January 11, 2011	December 12, 2017		Democratic
43		Mark Farrell	January 23, 2018	July 11, 2018		Democratic
44		London Breed	July 11, 2018	Incumbent		Democratic