Mayor of St. Paul
Incumbent Kaohly Her since January 2, 2026
Seat	Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Term length	Four years, no term limit
Formation	1850
First holder	Thomas R. Potts

This is a list of people who have served asmayor ofSaint Paul, Minnesota.

No.	Image	Name	Term (elections)	Party
1		Thomas R. Potts	1850–1851		Independent
2		Robert Kennedy	1851–1852		Independent
3		Bushrod W. Lott	1852–1854		Democratic
4		David Olmsted	1854–1855		Democratic
5		Alexander Ramsey	1855–1856		Whig[1]
6		George Loomis Becker	1856–1857		Democratic
7		John B. Brisbin	1857–1858		Democratic
8		Norman Wolfred Kittson	1858–1859		Democratic
9		Daniel A. Robertson	1859–1860		Democratic
10		John S. Prince	1860–1863		Democratic
11		John E. Warren	1863–1864		Democratic
12		Jacob H. Stewart	1864–1865		Republican
13		John S. Prince	1865–1867		Democratic
14		George L. Otis	1867–1868		Democratic
15		Jacob H. Stewart	1868–1869		Republican
16		James T. Maxfield	1869–1870		Democratic
17		William Lee	1870–1872		Democratic
18		Jacob H. Stewart	1872–1875		Republican
19		James T. Maxfield	1875–1878		Democratic
20		William Dawson	1878–1881		Democratic
21		Edmund Rice	1881–1883		Democratic
22		Christopher D. O'Brien	1883–1885		Democratic
23		Edmund Rice	1885–1887		Democratic
24		Robert A. Smith	1887–1892		Democratic
25		Frederick P. Wright	1892–1894		Republican
26		Robert A. Smith	1894–1896		Democratic
27		Frank Doran	1896–1898		Republican
28		Andrew Kiefer	1898–1900		Republican
29		Robert A. Smith	1900–1908		Democratic
30		Daniel W. Lawler	1908–1910		Democratic
31		Herbert P. Keller	1910–1914		Republican
32		Winn Powers	1914–1916		Democratic
33		Vivian R. Irvin	1916–1918		Republican
34		Laurence C. Hodgson	1918–1922		Democratic
35		Arthur E. Nelson	1922–1926		Republican
36		Laurence C. Hodgson	1926–1930		Democratic
37		Gerhard J. Bundlie	1930–1932		Independent
38		William Mahoney	1932–1934		Farmer-Labor
39		Mark H. Gehan	1934–1938		Independent
40		William H. Fallon	1938–1940		Independent
41		John J. McDonough	1940–1944		Democratic
			1944–1948		Democratic–Farmer–Labor[2]
42		Edward K. Delaney	1948–1952		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
43		John E. Daubney	1952–1954		Independent
44		Joseph E. Dillon	1954–1960		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
45		George J. Vavoulis	1960–1966		Independent
46		Thomas R. Byrne	1966–1970		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
47		Charles P. McCarty	1970–1972		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
48		Lawrence D. Cohen	1972–1976		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
49		George Latimer	1976–1990		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
50		James Scheibel	1990–1994		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
51		Norm Coleman	1994–1996		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
			1996–2002		Republican
52		Randy Kelly	2002–2006 (2001)		Independent
53		Chris Coleman	2006–2018 (2005 • 2009 • 2013)		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
54		Melvin Carter III	2018–2026 (2017 • 2021)		Democratic–Farmer–Labor
55		Kaohly Her	2026– (2025)		Democratic–Farmer–Labor

• "St. Paul Mayors"(PDF). Saint Paul Public Library. Archived from the original on November 2, 2004. RetrievedOctober 3, 2007.
• "Mayors of St. Paul, Minnesota". The Political Graveyard. RetrievedOctober 3, 2007.

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