Mayors of La Crosse

Browse photos of La Crosse’s mayors from the first election in 1856 to today.

Thomas Stoddard, 1856

Erasmus D. Campbell, 1857

David Taylor, 1858

James I. Lyndes, 1859, 1872

John Levy, 1860

Wilson Colwell, 1861

Albert W. Pettibone, 1862, 1863, 1864

William J. Lloyd, 1865

Theodore Rodolf, 1868, 1870

Charles L. Colman, 1869

Alexander McMillan, 1871

Gysbert Van Steenwyk, 1873, 1874

Gilbert M. Woodward, 1874

James J. Hogan, 1875

George Edwards, 1877

David Law, 1878, 1879, 1882, 1883

Joseph Clarke, 1880

Hiram F. Smiley, 1881

W. A. Roosevelt, 1884

David Frank Powell, 1885, 1886, 1893-1897

David Austin, 1887-1889

John Dengler, 1889-1891, 1911-1913

Frederick A. Copeland, 1891-1893

James McCord, 1897-1899

Wendell A. Anderson, 1899-1901, 1907-1909

Joseph Boschert, 1901-1903

William A. Torrance, 1903-1905, 1905-1907

Ori Sorensen, 1909-1911, 1913-1915

A. A. Bentley, 1915-1923

Joseph Verchota, 1923-1929, 1931-1935, 1939-1947

John E. Langdon, 1929-1931

C. August Boerner, 1935-1939

Charles A. Beranek, 1947-1949

Henry J. Ahrens, 1949-1955

Milo Knutson, 1955-1965

Warren Loveland, 1965-1971

W. Peter Gilbertson, 1971-1975

Patrick Zielke, 1975-1997

John Medinger, 1997-2005

Mark Johnsrud, 2005-2009

Mathias Harter, 2009-2013

Tim Kabat, 2013-2021

Mitch Reynolds, 2021-2025

Shaundel Washington-Spivey, 2025-Present