Draft:List of mayors of Bloomington, Indiana

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This is a list of mayors of Bloomington, Indiana:^[1]

#	Name	Term start	Term end	Party
1	John Lawrence	1847	1847
2	David H. Maxwell	1848	1848
3	John Throop	1851	1851	Democratic
4	John P. Reder	1852	1852	Democratic
5	Johnathan Moon	1852	1853	Democratic
6	Samuel Bonsall	1853	1857	Democratic
7	Carey W. Henderson	1876	1878
8	Clelland F. Dodds	1878	1885
9	James B. Mulkey	1885	1887
10	Morey M. Dunlap	1887	1891	Republican
11	Lawrence Van Buskirk	1891	1897	Republican
12	A.M. Hadley (1st)	1897	1902	Republican
13	Frank J. Dunn	1902	1904	Democratic
14	Claude G. Malott	1904	1909	Republican
15	John Harris (1st)	1910	1918	Democratic
16	W.W. Weaver	1918	1921	Republican
17	John Harris (2nd)	1922	1925	Democratic
18	Lynn B. Lewis	1925	1925	Republican
19	John L. Hetherington	1926	1930	Republican
20	Joseph H. Campbell	1930	1934	Republican
21	Arthur H. Berndt	1935	1939	Republican
22	Loba "Jack" Bruner	1939	1947
23	Tom Lemon (1st)	1948	1952	Democratic
24	Emmett Kelley	1952	1956	Republican
25	Tom Lemon (2nd)	1956	1962	Democratic
26	Mary Alice Dunlap	1962	1964	Democratic
27	John Hooker	1964	1971	Republican
28	Frank McCloskey	1972	1982	Democratic
29	Tomilea Allison	1983	1995	Democratic
30	John Fernandez	1995	2004	Democratic
31	Mark Kruzan	2004	2016	Democratic
32	John Hamilton	2016	2023	Democratic
33	Kerry Thomson	January 1, 2024	Present	Democratic

References

^ "Past Bloomington Mayors | City of Bloomington, Indiana". bloomington.in.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-09.

[1] "Past Bloomington Mayors | City of Bloomington, Indiana". bloomington.in.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-09.

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