Intendants & Mayors of Columbia, South Carolina
1806 to PRESENT
1. John Taylor (Intendant) May 1806 – April 1807
2. Abraham Nott (Intendant) April 1807 – June 1807
3. Claiborne Clifton (Intendant) June 1807 – April 1808
4. John Hooker (Intendant) April 1808 – July 1808
5. Daniel Faust (Intendant) July 1808 – April 1809
6. Simon Taylor (Intendant) 1809
7. Robert Stark (Intendant) 1810
8. Simon Taylor (Intendant) 1811
9. Daniel Faust (Intendant) 1812 – 1815
10. William E. Hayne (Intendant) 1815
11. James Gregg (Intendant) 1816
12. Daniel Morgan (Intendant) 1817
13. James Taylor Goodwyn (Intendant) 1818 – 1822
14. David James McCord (Intendant) 1822
15. James Taylor Goodwyn (Intendant) 1823
16. David James McCord (Intendant) 1824
17. James Taylor Goodwyn (Intendant) 1825
18. William Ford DeSaussure (Intendant) 1826 – 1828
19. Ezekiel Hopkins Maxcy (Intendant) 1828 – 1830
20. William Campbell Preston (Intendant) 1830
21. William C. Clifton (Intendant) 1831
22. Ezekiel Hopkins Maxcy (Intendant) 1832
23. Dr. M. H. DeLeon (Intendant) 1833 – 1836
24. John Bryce (Intendant) 1836 – 1839
25. Robert Wilson Gibbes (Intendant) 1839 – 1841
26. Col. Benjamin T. Elmore (Intendant) April 1841 – September 1841
27. Col. Robert Howell Goodwyn (Intendant) September 1841 – April 1842
28. William Mills Myers (Intendant) 1842 – 1845
29. William Byrd Stanley (Intendant) 1845 – December 1846
30. Joel Stevenson (Intendant) December 1846 – April 1847
31. Edward Sill (Intendant) 1847 – 1850
32. Henry Lyons (Intendant) 1850 – 1851
33. Col. Addley Hogan Gladden (Intendant) 1851 – 1853
34. William Maybin (Intendant) 1853 – 1855
35. Edward J. Arthur 1855 – 1857
36. James D. Tradewell 1857 – 1860
37. John Henry Boatwright 1860 – 1863
38. Thomas Jefferson Goodwyn 1863 – 1865
39. James Guignard Gibbes 1865 – 1866
40. Theodore Stark 1866 – July 1868
41. Col. Frances Luther Guenther (Appointed by U.S. Military) July 1868 – August 1868
42. Cyrus H. Baldwin (Appointed by U.S. Military) August 1868 – November 1868
43. John McKenzie November 1868 – 1870
44. John Alexander 1870 – 1876
45. John Agnew 1876 – 1878
46. Capt. W. B. Stanley 1878 – 1880
47. Capt. Richard O’Neale 1880 – 1882
48. John T. Rhett 1882 – 1890
49. Col. Fitz William McMaster 1890 – 1892
50. Dr. Walter Coles Fisher 1892 – 1894
51. William McBurney Sloan 1894 – 1898
52. Col. T. J. Lipscomb 1898 – 1900
53. Dr. Fort Sumter Earle 1900 – 1904
54. Thomas Hasell Gibbes 1904 – 1908
55. William S. Reamer 1908 – 1910
56. Wade Hampton Gibbes 1910 – 1914
57. Dr. Lewie A. Griffith 1914 – 1918
58. R. J. Blalock 1918 – 1922
59. William A. Coleman 1922 – 1926
60. Dr. Lawrence Beacham Owens (Died in office) 1926 – December 1941
61. Fred D. Marshall December 1941 – June 1946
62. Dr. Frank C. Owens June 1946 – 1950
63. J. Macfie Anderson 1950 – 1954
64. J. Clarence Dreher 1954 – 1958
65. Lester L. Bates 1958 – 1970
66. John T. Campbell 1970 – 1978
67. Kirkman Finlay 1978 – 1986
68. T. Patton Adams July 1986 – 1990
69. Robert C. Coble 1990 – 2010
70. Stephen K. Benjamin 2010 – 2022
71. Daniel J. Rickenmann 2022 – Present