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This is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
| Mayor | From | To | Party | Notes |
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| Angus McNeill | 1836 | 1839 | None | President of Shreve Town Co. |
| John Octavius Sewall | 1839 | 1840 | Whig | First Elected Mayor |
| William Walton George, M.D. | 1840 | 1840 | Democratic | |
| Samuel W. Briggs | 1841 | 1841 | None | |
| William Walton George, M.D. | 1842 | 1843 | Democratic | |
| John N. Howell | 1844 | 1844 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1845 | 1845 | Democratic | |
| Lawrence Pike Crain | 1846 | 1847 | Democratic | |
| Robert Nathaniel Wood | 1847 | 1847 | Whig/Know Nothing | Died in Mexico |
| John Morgan Landrum | 1848 | 1848 | Democratic | Elected to Congress in 1859 |
| Rev. John Bryce | 1849 | 1849 | Democratic | |
| Robert W. Cooke | 1850 | 1850 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1851 | 1853 | Democratic | |
| John Wallace Jones | 1854 | 1857 | Democratic | |
| Jonas Robeson | 1858 | 1858 | Democratic | |
| John W. Pennall | 1859 | 1859 | Democratic | Also Mayor of Homer, LA and State Judge in 1861 |
| Jonas Robeson | 1860 | 1861 | Democratic | |
| Joseph Clinton Beall | 1862 | 1863 | Democratic | |
| John Gooch, Samuel Wells | 1864 | 1865 | Democratic | Gooch was ousted by the Union and was replaced by Wells. |
| Alexander Boarman | 1866 | 1867 | Republican. | Appointed by Union. |
| Lewis S. Markham | 1867 | 1867 | Dem. | Served only one month. |
| Martin Tally | 1867 | 1868 | Republican | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. |
| Jerome B. Gilmore | 1869 | 1871 | Republican | Appointed during reconstruction by Union. |
| William Rabun Shivers | 1871 | 1871 | Dem. | Was killed before he was able to serve term. |
| Moses Hodge Crowell | 1871 | 1872 | Republican | Appointed by the Union. |
| Joseph Taylor, M.D. | 1872 | 1873 | Dem. | Was forbidden to serve by Federal authorities. (Confederate Loyalist) |
| Samuel Levy, M.A. Walsh | 1872 | 1873 | Republican | Jointly appointed by Federal government, Levy was the first Jewish Mayor. |
| Samuel J. Ward | 1874 | 1874 | Democratic | Sheriff of Caddo Parish in 1869. Born in Wales. |
| W. Nick Murphy | 1875 | 1878 | Republican/Democratic | Switched from Republican to Democrat. |
| Andrew Currie | 1878 | 1889 | Democratic | Resigned from his position in 1890. Born in Ireland. |
| Edward B. Herndon | 1890 | 1890 | Democratic | Elected to fill unfinished term. |
| Richard Tucker Vinson | 1891 | 1895 | Democratic | |
| Reuben Neil McKellar | 1896 | 1900 | Democratic | Born in Kickapoo in Anderson County, Texas; moved to Shreveport in his early teens |
| Benjamin Holzman | 1900 | 1902 | Democratic | Born in Germany. |
| Andrew C. Querbes, Sr. | 1902 | 1906 | Democratic | Born in New Orleans. |
| Ernest Ralph Berstein | 1906 | 1908 | Democratic | |
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1908 | 1910 | Democratic | |
| John Henry Eastham, Jr. | 1910 | 1914 | Democratic | First mayor under city commission government |
| Samuel Augustus Dickson, M.D. | 1914 | 1916 | Democratic | |
| Robert Hodges Ward | 1916 | 1918 | Democratic | Son of Mayor Samuel J. Ward. |
| John McWilliams Ford | 1918 | 1922 | Democratic | |
| Lee Emmett Thomas | 1922 | 1930 | Democratic | Louisiana State Representative, 1912–1916 |
| J. G. Palmer | 1930 | 1932 | Democratic | Louisiana State Judge. |
| John McWilliams Ford | 1932 | 1932 | Democratic | |
| George W. Hardy, Jr. | 1932 | 1934 | Democratic | Louisiana State Judge. |
| Samuel S. Caldwell | 1934 | 1946 | Democratic | |
| Clyde E. Fant | 1946 | 1954 | Democratic | |
| James C. Gardner | 1954 | 1958 | Democratic | Louisiana State Representative, 1952–1954 |
| Clyde E. Fant | 1958 | 1970 | Democratic | Longest serving term of any Shreveport Mayor. |
| L. Calhoun Allen, Jr. | 1970 | 1978 | Democratic | |
| William T. Hanna, Jr. | 1978 | 1982 | Democratic | |
| John Brennan Hussey | 1982 | 1990 | Democratic | |
| Hazel Beard | 1990 | 1994 | Republican | First female mayor and first Republican mayor since the Reconstruction era |
| Robert W. "Bo" Williams | 1994 | 1998 | Republican | |
| Keith Hightower | 1998 | 2006 | Democratic | |
| Cedric B. Glover | 2006 | 2014 | Democratic | First African-American mayor |
| Ollie Tyler | 2014 | 2018 | Democratic | First African-American female mayor |
| Adrian Perkins | 2018 | 2022 | Democratic | |
| Martin Thomas “Tom” Arceneaux | 2022 | Incumbent | Republican |