List of mayors of Rapid City, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota was founded in 1876[1] and was run by a village board of trustees until 1882, when John Richard Brennan, a member of the board and cofounder of the city, was chosen as mayor.[2] Two months after the city was incorporated, Fred E. Stearns was elected mayor.[3] The first form of elected government was mayor–council with an elected strong mayor. From 1910 to 1922, a city commission government was used. Later that year, the system of government was changed to council–manager. Rapid City returned to a mayor–council government in 1957.[4] The Rapid City Council chose to extend the mayoral term to four years in 2015, and the change took effect in 2019. There is no term limit.[5] The annual mayoral salary is $95,406.[6][7]
List
| Name (term) | Term Began | Term End |
|---|---|---|
| John Richard Brennan | 1882 | 1883 |
| Fred E. Stearns | 1883 | 1884 |
| James Halley II | 1884 | 1886 |
| Andrew Jackson Simmons | 1886 | 1887 |
| John F. Schrader | 1887 | 1888 |
| David H. Clark | 1888 | 1890 |
| James Moses Woods | 1890 | 1894 |
| Chauncey Lynch Wood (1) | 1894 | 1896 |
| Valentine McGillycuddy | 1896 | 1898 |
| George B. Mansfield | 1898 | 1899 |
| Chauncey Lynch Wood (2) | 1899 | 1900 |
| Charles Wellington Brown | 1900 | 1902 |
| Ferdinand N. Emrick | 1902 | 1908 |
| Chauncey Lynch Wood (3) | 1908 | 1910 |
| Robert J. Jackson | 1910 | 1912 |
| Fred H. Rugg | 1912 | 1914 |
| William E. Robinson | 1914 | 1918 |
| John L. Burke | 1919 | 1920 |
| Claude E. Gray | 1920 | 1922 |
| Harry Wentzy | 1922 | 1924 |
| John Abram Boland | 1924 | 1925 |
| Charles Tittle | 1925 | 1926 |
| Arthur Lampert | 1926 | 1927 |
| Victor Jepson | 1927 | 1928 |
| Eugene Bangs | 1928 | 1929 |
| Theodore B. Werner | 1929 | 1930 |
| Winfield Morrill | 1930 | 1931 |
| Melville Babington | 1931 | 1932 |
| Fred Merritt | 1933 | 1934 |
| Charles Leroy Doherty | 1934 | 1936 |
| Norbert De Kerchove | 1937 | 1938 |
| Robert S. Hill | 1938 | 1943 |
| Therlo Burrington | 1943 | 1944 |
| Stanton Neil | 1944 | 1946 |
| Fred Dusek (1) | 1946 | 1948 |
| Earl Brockelsby | 1948 | 1949 |
| Isaac Chase | 1949 | 1951 |
| Augustus Haines | 1951 | 1953 |
| Montford Wasser | 1953 | 1954 |
| Harry R. Johnson | 1954 | 1955 |
| Don L'Esperance | 1955 | 1956 |
| Henry Jay Baker (1) | 1956 | 1957 |
| Fred Dusek (2) | 1957 | 1961 |
| Willis Raff | 1961 | 1963 |
| Phil Schroeder | 1963 | 1965 |
| Henry Jay Baker (2) | 1965 | 1969 |
| Jack Allmon | 1969 | 1970 |
| John Barnes | 1970 | 1971 |
| Donald V. Barnett | 1971 | 1975 |
| Arthur Lacroix | 1975 | 1987 |
| Keith Carlyle | 1987 | 1991 |
| Edward Ralph McLaughlin | 1991 | 1997 |
| Jim Shaw (1) | 1997 | 2001 |
| Jerry Munson | 2001 | 2003 |
| Jim Shaw (2) | 2003 | 2007 |
| Alan Hanks | 2007 | 2011 |
| Sam Kooiker | 2011 | 2015 |
| Steve Allender | 2015 | present |
| References:[8] | ||
References
- Hasselstrom, Linda M. (1994). Roadside History of South Dakota. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company. p. 331. ISBN 0-87842-262-5.
- "John Richard Brennan". Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
- "Fred E. Stearns". Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
- "Types of City Governments and Home Rule (Rapid City)". Black Hills Knowledge Network. April 21, 2014.
- Holland, Jim (October 6, 2015). "Council approves longer mayoral, council terms". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- Lawrence, Tom (July 2, 2008). "'There's never been a better time to be in Rapid City'". Black Hills Pioneer. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
- "Kooiker leaving Rapid City to manage modest-sized Iowa city". Rapid City Journal. October 6, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- Rippentrop, Kay; Malone, Sandra. "Mayoral History of Rapid City". Black Hills Knowledge Network with mayoral biographies from Rapid City Library. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
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