Editing Appleton, Wisconsin (section)

==Government==
[[File:OutagamieCountyWisconsinCourthouse.jpg|thumb|[[Outagamie County, Wisconsin|Outagamie County Courthouse]]]]
Appleton is governed via the mayor-council system. The mayor appoints department heads, subject to council approval. The city attorney is elected every four years in a citywide vote. The council, known as the common council or city council, consists of 15 members, called alderpersons, all of whom are elected to two-year terms from individual districts.

The current mayor of Appleton, Jake Woodford, was elected in 2020 to his first four-year term. The first mayor of Appleton was Amos Story, elected in April 1857. The longest-serving mayor was Timothy Hanna, who served from 1996 through 2020.

===Mayors===
Partial of list of Appleton's past mayors:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/AMP/search/searchterm/Appleton+Mayors/mode/exact/page/1|title=Appleton Memory Project}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align:center"
|+ class="nowrap" | Mayors of Appleton, Wisconsin, since incorporation
! Order
! Term start
! Term end
! Mayor
! Notes
|- style="height:3em"
| 1
| 1857
| 1859
| align=left | {{sortname|Amos|Story|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 2
| 1859
| 1860
| align=left | {{sortname|Alvin|Foster|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 3
| 1860
| 1862
| align=left | {{sortname|Robert R.|Bateman|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 4
| 1862
| 1865
| align=left | {{sortname|William|Johnson|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 5
| 1865
| 1866
| align=left | {{sortname|R. Z.|Mason|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 6
| 1866
| 1867
| align=left | {{sortname|James|Gilmore|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 7
| 1867
| 1868
| align=left | {{sortname|Robert R.|Bateman|nolink=1}}
| 
|- style="height:3em"
| 8
| 1868
| 1870
| align=left | {{sortname|George N.|Richmond}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 9
| 1870
| 1871
| align=left | {{sortname|Augustus L.|Smith}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 10
| 1871
| 1872
| align=left | {{sortname|George N.|Richmond}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 11
| 1872
| 1873
| align=left | {{sortname|E. C.|Goff|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 12
| 1873
| 1875
| align=left | {{sortname|S. R.|Willy|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 13
| 1875
| 1875
| align=left | {{sortname|Peter|Esselburn|nolink=1}}
| 
|- style="height:3em"
| 14
| 1875
| 1877
| align=left | {{sortname|J. E.|Harriman|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 15
| 1877
| 1878
| align=left | {{sortname|Joseph H.|Marston|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 16
| 1878
| 1879
| align=left | {{sortname|James|Ryan|James Ryan (Wisconsin politician)}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 17
| 1879
| 1880
| align=left | {{sortname|Orson W.|Clark|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 18
| 1880
| 1882
| align=left | {{sortname|Humphrey|Pierce|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 19
| 1882
| 1883
| align=left | {{sortname|Joseph H.|Marston|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 20
| 1883
| 1887
| align=left | {{sortname|G. N.|Richmond|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 21
| 1887
| 1889
| align=left | {{sortname|Rush|Winslow|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 22
| 1889
| 1892
| align=left | {{sortname|Alfred H.|Levings|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 23
| 1892
| 1893
| align=left | {{sortname|Rush|Winslow|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 24
| 1893
| 1894
| align=left | {{sortname|Humphrey|Pierce|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 25
| 1894
| 1897
| align=left | {{sortname|Peter|Thom|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 26
| 1897
| 1900
| align=left | {{sortname|Herman|Erb Jr.|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 27
| 1900
| 1904
| align=left | {{sortname|David|Hammel}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 28
| 1904
| 1906
| align=left | {{sortname|Frank W.|Harriman|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 29
| 1906
| 1908
| align=left | {{sortname|David|Hammel}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 30
| 1908
| 1910
| align=left | {{sortname|Bernard C.|Wolter}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 31
| 1910
| 1913
| align=left | {{sortname|James V.|Canavan|nolink=1}}
| align=left | Died in office, Dec. 1913.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81634637/mayor-canavan-dead/ |title= Mayor Dead after a Noble Fight for Life |newspaper= [[The Post-Crescent|Appleton Evening Crescent]] |date= December 5, 1913 |page= 1 |accessdate= July 17, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref>
|- style="height:3em"
| 32
| 1914
| 1917
| align=left | {{sortname|August|Knuppel}}
| align=left | Won Feb. 1914 special election.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81635073/knuppel-unopposed/ |title= But One Candidate Left |newspaper= The Blanchardville Blade |date= February 6, 1914 |page= 2 |accessdate= July 17, 2021 |via= [[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref>
|- style="height:3em"
| 33
| 1917
| 1918
| align=left | {{sortname|John|Faville|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 34
| 1918
| 1922
| align=left | {{sortname|J. Austin|Hawes|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 35
| 1922
| 1924
| align=left | {{sortname|Henry|Reuter|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 36
| 1924
| 1926
| align=left | {{sortname|John|Goodland Jr.|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 37
| 1926
| 1930
| align=left | {{sortname|Albert|Rule|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 38
| 1930
| 1946
| align=left | {{sortname|John|Goodland Jr.|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 39
| 1946
| 1958
| align=left | {{sortname|Robert|Roemer|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 40
| 1958
| 1966
| align=left | {{sortname|Clarence|Mitchell|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 41
| 1966
| 1972
| align=left | {{sortname|George|Buckley|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 42
| 1972
| 1980
| align=left | {{sortname|James|Sutherland|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 43
| 1980
| 1992
| align=left | {{sortname|Dorothy|Johnson|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 44
| 1992
| 1996
| align=left | {{sortname|Richard|DeBroux|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 45
| 1996
| 2020
| align=left | {{sortname|Timothy|Hanna|nolink=1}}
|
|- style="height:3em"
| 46
| 2020
| ''Current''
| align=left | {{sortname|Jake|Woodford|nolink=1}}
|
|}

===Congressional representation===
Appleton is represented by [[Ron Johnson]] (R) and [[Tammy Baldwin]] (D) in the [[United States Senate]]. It is represented in the [[United States House of Representatives]] by [[Tony Wied]], who has represented Wisconsin's 8th district since [[2024 Wisconsin's 8th congressional district special election|November 2024]]. In the Wisconsin state legislature, Appleton is divided among four State Assembly Districts (3rd, 55th, 56th, 57th) and two State Senate Districts (1st, 19th). As of the 2018–2019 legislative session, the following representatives serve these districts:
* [[Wisconsin's 3rd Assembly district|3rd Assembly District]]: [[Ron Tusler]] (R&ndash;Harrison)
* [[Wisconsin's 55th Assembly district|55th Assembly District]]: [[Nate Gustafson]] (R&ndash;Neenah) 
* [[Wisconsin's 56th Assembly district|56th Assembly District]]: [[Dave Murphy (Wisconsin politician)|David Murphy]] (R&ndash;Greenville)
* [[Wisconsin's 57th Assembly district|57th Assembly District]]: [[Lee Snodgrass]] (D&ndash;Appleton)
* [[Wisconsin's 1st State Senate district|1st Senate District]]: [[André Jacque]] (R&ndash;DePere)
* [[Wisconsin's 19th State Senate district|19th Senate District]]: [[Rachael Cabral-Guevara]] (R&ndash;Fox Crossing)