List of mayors of New Madrid, Missouri
The city of New Madrid, Missouri, located in Missouri's 8th congressional district in southeastern Missouri, is the county seat of New Madrid County, Missouri, and one of the oldest European settlements west of the Mississippi River.
| Mayor | Took office | Left office | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| D. R. Hunter | 1917 | 1918 | |
| Dr. Welton Neville O'Bannon, Jr. | First Mayor of New Madrid.[1] The O'Bannon Family Care Center obstetrics unit at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, bears the name of his son and wife as remembered from a donation from his grandson Welton Neville O'Bannon. (1854-1910) | ||
| Milton G. Hatcher | Physician and druggist born in Kentucky who served one term as mayor.[2] (1840-1892)[3] | ||
| John William Brownell | Brownell was mayor when the town was incorporated as a second-class city in 1878.[4] He fought under Confederate General Sterling Price as a first lieutenant. (1841-1924)[5] | ||
| Samuel Latham Hunter | 1944 | 1946 | (1880-1962)[6] |
| Thomas F. Hunter | 1946 | 1958 | |
| Robert Riley, Sr. | 1958 | 1960 | His terms as mayor included the construction of a new city hall and a new sewage lagoon and water treatment plant. (1915-2011)[7] |
| O. W. Lewis | 1960 | 1962 | |
| Robert Riley, Sr. | 1962 | 1974 | He previously served as mayor. (1915-2011)[7] |
| James H. Cravens | 1974 | 1984 | |
| William R. "Dick" Phillips, Jr. | 1984 | 1994 | Navy veteran, farmer, and agri-businessman who served 26 years as the mayor and an alderman and who helped lead the effort to pass the single-largest industrial bond issue for any community of any size up to that time.[8] |
| Lawrence H. Rost | 1994 | 1996 | |
| Mark Baker | 1996 | 2000 | |
| (unknown) | 2000 | ||
| Donnie Brown | 2016 | ||
| Richard "Dicky" Bodi[9] | 2016 | (current) | |
- Philip Raidt, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1825, helped to organize the first free school in New Madrid County. In April 1884, he was elected mayor of the city of New Madrid, but he did not serve. In the fall of 1884, he became a candidate for county judge and was elected to this position.[2]
References
- Missouri Secretary of State official manuals
- ↑ "Dr. Welton Neville O'Bannon, first Mayor of New Madrid". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- 1 2 "Goodspeed's History of Southeast MO". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- ↑ "Ancestry.com: Milton G. Hatcher". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- ↑ Robert Sidney Douglass (1912). History of Southeast Missouri: A Narrative Account of Its ..., Volume 1. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company.
- ↑ "Lieut John William Brownell". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- ↑ "Pemiscot County, MO Gen Web". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- 1 2 "Robert Riley, Sr.: obituary". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- ↑ "Distinguished Servant: W.R. "Dick" Phillips". Retrieved 2014-11-01.
- ↑ "April 5th, 2016 Local Election Results". Retrieved 2016-04-06.
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