This is a list of mayors that have served the city of Houston, Texas.

  • 1837 - 1838: James S. Holman
  • 1838 - 1839: Francis Moore, Jr
  • 1839 - 1840: George W. Lively
  • 1840 - 1841: Charles Bigelow
  • 1841 - 1844: Colonel J.D. Andrews
  • 1844 - 1845: Horace Baldwin
  • 1845 - 1846: W. W. Swain
  • 1846 - 1847: James Bailey
  • 1847 - 1849: B. P. Buckner
  • 1849 - 1853: Francis Moore, Jr.
  • 1853 - 1855: Nathan Fuller
  • 1855 - 1857: James H. Stevens
  • 1857 - 1858: Cornelius Ennis
  • 1858 - 1859: Alexander McGowan
  • 1859 - 1860: William King
  • 1860 - 1861: Thomas W. Whitmarsh
  • 1861 - 1862: William J. Hutchins
  • 1862 - 1863: Thomas W. House
  • 1863 - 1866: William Anders
  • 1866 - 1867: Horace D. Taylor
  • 1867 - 1868: Alexander McGowan
  • 1868: Joseph R. Morris
  • 1868 - 1970: A/some "carpetbagger" Mayor(s), name(s) unknown
  • 1870 - 1874: Thomas H. Scanlan
  • 1874 - 1875: James T. D. Wilson
  • 1875 - 1877: I. C. Lord
  • 1877 - 1879: T. D. Wilson
  • 1879 - 1880: Andrew Burke
  • 1880 - 1886: William R. Baker
  • 1890: James Stephen Hogg
  • 1890 - 1892: Henry Scherffius
  • 1892 - 1896: John T. Browne
  • 1896 - 1898: T. Baldwin Rice
  • 1898 - 1900: Samuel H. Brashear
  • 1900 - 1902: John D. Woolford
  • 1902 - 1904: O. T. Holt
  • 1904 - 1905: Andrew L. Jackson
  • 1905 - 1913: H. Baldwin Rice
  • 1913 - 1917: Ben Campbell
  • 1917 - 1918: J. J. Pastoriza
  • 1918 - 1921: A. Earl Amerman
  • 1921 - 1929: Oscar F. Holcombe
  • 1929 - 1933: Walter E. Monteith
  • 1933 - 1937: Oscar F. Holcombe
  • 1937 - 1939: R. H. Fonville
  • 1939 - 1940: Oscar F. Holcombe
  • 1941 - 1946: C. A. Neal Pickett
  • 1946 - 1953: Oscar F. Holcombe
  • 1953 - 1955: Roy M. Hofheinz
  • 1955 - 1958: Oscar F. Holcombe
  • 1958 - 1963: Lewis Cutrer
  • 1963 - 1974: Louis Welch
  • 1974 - 1977: Fred Hofheinz
  • 1977 - 1981: Jim McConn
  • 1981 - 1991: Kathryn J. Whitmire
  • 1991 - 1997: Bob Lanier
  • 1997 - 2004: Lee P. Brown
  • 2004 - :Bill White