The cities of Washington and Georgetown also had mayors from 1802-1871. Governors administered the District of Columbia from 1871-1874.A Board of Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States adminstered the District from 1874-1974.
Until 1820 the mayor was appointed
- Robert Brent 1802-1812
- Daniel Rapine 1812-1813
- James H. Blake 1813-1817
- Benjamin G. Orr 1817-1819
- Samuel N. Smallwood 1819-1822 (Smallwood was elected mayor in 1820)
- Thomas Carbery 1822-1824
- Samuel N. Smallwood 1824
- Roger C. Weightman 1824-1827
- Joseph Gales, Jr. 1827-1830
- John P. Van Ness 1830-1834
- William A. Bradley 1834-1836
- Peter Force 1836-1840
- William Winston Seaton 1840-1850
- Walter Lenox 1850-1852
- John W. Maury 1852-1854
- John Thomas Towers 1854-1856
- William B. Magruder 1856-1858
- James G. Berret 1858-1861
- Richard Wallach 1861-1868
- Sayles J. Bowen 1868-1870
- Matthew Gault Emery 1870-1871
- Robert Peter 1790
- Thomas Beale 1791
- Uriah Forrest 1792
- John Threlkeld 1793
- Peter Casenave 1794
- Thomas Turner 1795
- Daniel Reintzel 1796
- Lloyd Beall 1797-1799
- Daniel Reintzel 1799-1804
- Thomas Corcoran 1805
- Daniel Reintzel 1806-1807
- Thomas Corcoran 1808-1810
- David Wiley 1811
- Thomas Corcoran 1812
- John Peter 1813-1818
- Henry Foxall 1819-1820
- John Peter 1821-1822
- John Cox 1823-1845
- Henry Addison 1845-1857
- Richard R. Crawford 1857-1861
- Henry Addison 1861-1867
- Charles D. Welch 1867-1869
- Henry M. Sweeney 1869-1871
- Henry Cooke 1871-1873
- Alexander Shepherd 1873-1874
- William Dennison, 1874-1878
- Seth Ledyard Phelps, 1878-1879
- Josiah Dent, 1879-1882
- Joseph Rodman West, 1882-1883
- James Barker Edmonds, 1883-1886
- William Benning Webb, 1886-1889
- John Watkinson Douglass, 1889-1893
- John Wesley Ross, 1893-1898
- John Brewer Wright, 1898-1900
- Henry Brown Floyd Macfarland, 1898-1900
- Cuno Hugo Rudolph, 1910-1913
- Oliver Peck Newman, 1913-1917
- Louis Brownlow, 1917-1920
- Charles Willauer Kutz, 1920
- Cuno Hugo Rudolph, 1920-1926
- Proctor L. Dougherty, 1926-1930
- Luther Halsey Reichelderfer, 1930-1933
- Melvin Colvin Hazen, 1933-1941
- John Russell Young, 1941-1952
- F. Joseph Donohue, 1952-1953
- Samuel Spencer, 1953-1956
- Robert E. McLaughlin, 1956-1961
- Walter Nathan Tobriner, 1961-1967
- Walter Washington[?], 1967-1975