List of mayors of Cape Girardeau, Missouri
The city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is the most populous city in Missouri's 8th congressional district and southeastern Missouri which is sometimes known as the Missouri Bootheel.
List of Mayors
Cape Girardeau mayors since 1843, when the city was incorporated.| Mayor | Took office | Left office | Additional information |
| E. Mason | 1843 | 1844 | |
| George Washington Juden, Sr. | 1844 | 1844 | First elected mayor. |
| E. Mason | 1844 | 1846 | 2nd term |
| Thomas Johnston | 1846 | 1849 | Some sources spell his name as Johnson. |
| Dr. Patrick Henry Davis | 1849 | 1851 | He was the publisher of the Southern Advocate and State Journal, originally an 1819 newspaper which was the second-oldest Missouri newspaper outside of St. Louis. |
| Alfred T. Lacey | 1851 | 1852 | During the Civil War, this bank president moved his family to Memphis where he remained after the war. |
| Thomas Baldwin | 1852 | 1853 | |
| John C. Watson | 1853 | 1854 | Captain Watson was a Mississippi River boat pilot for 24 years. |
| Amasa Alton | 1854 | 1855 | |
| C. T. Gale | 1855 | 1857 | |
| John Ivers, Jr. | 1857 | 1860 | |
| John Albert | 1860 | 1862 | Cape Girardeau County sheriff, 1870-1878 |
| George H. Cramer | 1862 | 1867 | Son of one of the county's first German settlers. In June 1861, Major Cramer organized and led a battalion of four Union companies. In 1867, he became a member of Cape Girardeau's first school board. He was the father of Wilson Cramer, Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney, 1873-1874. |
| George C. Thilenius | 1867 | 1873 | - |
| Edward D. Engelmann | 1873 | 1877 | He was from Hanover, Germany, and came to the United States in 1840. He was a clerk of the court of common pleas at Cape Girardeau for 18 years and his son Edward H. Engelmann was also a clerk of the court of common pleas at Cape Girardeau. |
| Leon Joseph Albert | 1877 | 1879 | He spoke French and German and built the Alfred T. Lacy, named after a previous mayor this was the only steamboat ever built at Cape Girardeau. Author Mark Twain served as a co-pilot on the Alfred T. Lacy. Albert Hall, the first dormitory on Southeast Missouri State University, was named after him. |
| George H. Cramer | 1879 | 1886 | 2nd term |
| Leon Joseph Albert | 1886 | 1891 | 2nd term |
| Harlan P. Pieronnet | 1891 | 1895 | |
| William H. Coerver | 1895 | 1901 | He was a druggist for 50 years. His Broadway Street house was later converted into Schulz Surgical Hospital until the opening of Southeast Missouri Hospital in 1928. |
| Dr. John D. Porterfield | 1901 | 1903 | |
| Rodney Gayso Whitelaw | 1903 | 1905 | He may be related to former congressman and Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney Robert Henry Whitelaw. |
| William H. Coerver | 1905 | 1907 | 2nd term |
| Dr. Warren C. Patton | 1907 | 1909 | |
| Merit E. Leming | 1909 | 1911 | After serving on a dormitory association, Leming Hall, the first women's dormitory on Southeast Missouri State University, was named after him. |
| Frederick A. Kage | 1911 | 1917 | Cape Girardeau County sheriff, 1882-1886 He served in city and county government for 63 years. |
| William Hirsch | 1917 | 1918 | Born in Germany, he was a county judge, a pioneer merchant, and a banker. |
| Henry Harl Haas | 1918 | 1922 | First mayor under the municipal form of government. He resigned to become postmaster for 12 years. In 1934, he was defeated in a mayor election by 325 votes. |
| James Alexander Barks | 1922 | 1930 | |
| Edward L. Drum | 1930 | 1936 | Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney, 1937 |
| Charles G. Wilson | 1936 | 1938 | |
| Edward L. Drum | 1938 | 1940 | 2nd term |
| W. Hinkle Statler | 1940 | 1942 | Elected at the age of 30, he became the city's youngest mayor at that time. |
| Raymond E. Beckman | 1942 | 1948 | |
| Walter H. "Doc" Ford | 1948 | 1952 | He was given the nickname "Doc" as his father was a Gordonville doctor. |
| Manning P. Greer | 1952 | 1954 | |
| Narvol A. Randol | 1954 | 1956 | He was a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander at the Battle of Bulge. In 1971, he retired as a brigadier general in the Missouri National Guard. |
| Walter H. "Doc" Ford | 1956 | 1964 | 2nd term |
| Waddy Elmo Davis | 1964 | 1965 | |
| Charles A. Hood | 1965 | 1966 | In 1965, he purchased the historic St. Charles Hotel where guests reportedly had included Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens. |
| J. Ronald Fischer | 1966 | 1967 | Cape Girardeau city manager, 1988-1995. |
| James Hugh Logan | 1967 | 1968 | First executive director of the Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation, 1977-85, and president of the hospital's board of directors, 1986-1989. |
| A. Robert Price | 1968 | 1969 | |
| Ivan L. Irvin | 1969 | 1970 | He served on the Missouri Real Estate Commission, 1987 to 1992. |
| Howard C. Tooke | 1970 | 1978 | - |
| Paul W. Stehr | 1978 | 1981 | He worked in the insurance business and served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. Acting city manager, 1981. |
| Howard C. Tooke | 1981 | 1986 | 2nd term |
| Francis E. "Gene" Rhodes | 1986 | 1994 | In 1963, he founded Rhodes Oil Companies which runs Rhodes 101 Stop gas stations and convenience stores. He served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. |
| Albert M. Spradling, III | 1994 | 2002 | Son of Missouri state senator Albert Spradling, Jr. |
| Jay Knudtson | 2002 | 2010 | Banker and Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents member. |
| Harry Rediger | 2010 | 2018 | Former manager of the J. C. Penney in Cape Girardeau. Many years on the United Way Board of Directors. |
| Bob Fox | 2018 | - | Former city councilman of Cape Girardeau |