Editing Takoma Park, Maryland (section)

===Mayor===
[[File:Current and former Takoma Park mayors.jpg|thumb|right|(left to right): Ed Sharp (mayor 1990-7), Kate Stewart (mayor 2015-22), Bruce Williams (mayor 2007-15), Kathy Porter (mayor 1997-07) at a dinner party in 2017]]
Takoma Park is governed by a city council composed of a mayor and council members for each of six wards. The current mayor of Takoma Park (the 24th) is Talisha Searcy (mayor since 2022).<ref name="mayor">{{Cite web |title=Mayor Information Page |url=http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/citycouncil/info/mayor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023093535/http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/citycouncil/info/mayor |archive-date=October 23, 2013 |access-date=November 4, 2013 |website=City of Takoma Park |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Former mayors of Takoma Park
! Number!! Name !! Entered office !! Left office 
|-
|1 || [[Benjamin Franklin Gilbert]]|| 1890 || 1892 
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|2 || Enoch Maris || 1892 || 1894
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|3 || Samuel S. Shedd || 1894|| 1902
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|4 || John B. Kinnear || 1902|| 1906
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|5 || Wilmer G. Platt || 1906|| 1912
|-
|6 || Stephen W. Williams || 1912|| 1917
|-
|7 || Wilmer G. Platt  || 1917|| 1920
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|8 || James L. Wilmeth || 1920|| 1923
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|9 || Henry Taff || 1923 || 1926
|-
|10 || Ben G. Davis || 1926 || 1932
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|11 || Frederick L. Lewton || 1932 || 1936
|-
|12 || John R. Adams  || 1936 || 1940
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|13 || Oliver W. Youngblood || 1940 || 1948
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|14 || John C. Post || 1948|| 1950
|-
|15 || Ross H. Beville || 1950|| 1954
|-
|16 || George M. Miller || 1954 || 1972
|-
|17 || John D. Roth  || 1972 || 1980
|-
|18 || [[Sammie Abbott]] || 1980|| 1985
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|19 || Stephen J. Del Giudice || 1985 || 1990
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|20 || Edward F. Sharp  || 1990 || 1997
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|21 || Kathy Porter  || 1997 || 2007
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|22 || Bruce Williams || 2007 || 2015
|-
|23 || Kate Stewart || 2015 || 2022
|-
|24 || Talisha Searcy || 2022 || 
|}