Editing Charleston, West Virginia (section)

==Government==
[[File:Charleston City Hall Apr 09.JPG|thumb|right|[[Charleston City Hall]], West Virginia, in 2009]]
Charleston functions has a [[Mayor-Council|mayor-council]] form of city government. The [[mayor]] is the city's designated chief executive, with the duty to see that all city laws and ordinances are enforced. The mayor gives general supervision over all executive departments, offices, and agencies of the city government and is the presiding officer of the council and a voting member thereof. Amy Goodwin was sworn in as mayor on January 7, 2019, and is Charleston's first female mayor.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shinkle |first1=Leanne |title=Amy Goodwin sworn in as first female mayor in Charleston |url=https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Amy-Goodwin-wins-race-for-Charleston-mayor-499896111.html |website=WSAZ |access-date=January 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107090332/https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Amy-Goodwin-wins-race-for-Charleston-mayor-499896111.html |archive-date=November 7, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Charleston also has a city manager, who is appointed by the mayor and approved by the council. Benjamin Mishoe took office as city manager in 2023. The city manager has supervision and control of the executive work and management of the heads of all departments under his or her control as directed by the mayor, makes all contracts for labor and supplies, and generally is responsible for all the city's business and administrative work.

The Charleston City Council has 26 members. Twenty of the members are elected from a specific [[Wards of the United States|ward]] within the city, and the other six are elected by the city at-large.

General elections for mayor, city council, and other city officers take place in November every four years, coinciding with midterm election races for Congress and the state legislature. Primary elections are held in May. The most recent election was in 2022. Until 2018, elections were held in off-cycle years, with primaries in March and general elections in May.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fallon |first=Paul |date=February 5, 2013 |title=New measure would shorten Charleston council members' terms |work=[[Charleston Gazette-Mail]] |url=https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/new-measure-would-shorten-charleston-council-members-terms/article_0579a020-3f02-5145-b011-628bd4a4e5b1.html |access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref>

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* Jacob Goshorn, 1861 (elected but did not serve)<ref name= Laidley>{{Citation|publisher=Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. |location=Chicago |title=History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia, and Representative Citizens |url=https://www.archive.org/stream/historyofcharles00laid?ref=ol#page/166/mode/1up |author=W. S. Laidley |oclc=3645365 |via=[[Internet Archive]] |year=1911 |pages=166–169 |quote=List of mayors |access-date=August 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307210403/https://www.archive.org/stream/historyofcharles00laid?ref=ol#page/166/mode/1up |archive-date=March 7, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John A. Truslow, circa 1865{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John Williams
* George Ritter, 1868–1869{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John W. Wingfield, 1870{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* H. Clay Dickinson, 1871 (died in office){{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John P. Hale, 1871<ref name=wvencyclopedia>{{cite web |url=http://www.wvencyclopedia.org |title=West Virginia Encyclopedia |location=Charleston, WV |publisher=West Virginia Humanities Council |access-date=March 7, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319185213/http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ |archive-date=March 19, 2017}}</ref>
* John Williams, 1872{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* C. P. Snyder, 1873{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John D. White, 1874{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John C. Ruby, 1875–1876{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}<ref>{{cite book |author1=Thomas Condit Miller |author2=Hu Maxwell |title=West Virginia and Its People |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location=New York |year=1913 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fnk_AAAAYAAJ |volume=3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701043851/http://books.google.com/books?id=Fnk_AAAAYAAJ |archive-date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>
* C. J. Botkin, 1877–1881{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* R. R. Delaney, 1881–1882{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* John D. Baines, 1883–1884{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* [[James Hall Huling]], 1885–1886{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* Joseph L. Fry, 1887–1890{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* James B. Pemberton, 1891–1892{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}<ref name=wvencyclopedia />
* E. W. Staunton, 1893–1894{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* J. A. deGruyter, 1895–1898{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* W. Herman Smith, 1899–1900 (died in office){{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* [[John B. Floyd (West Virginia politician)|John B. Floyd]], 1900–1901
* George S. Morgan, 1901–{{sfn|Chamber of Commerce|1901|p=31}}
* C. E. Rudesill
* John A. Jarrett
* James A. Holley
* William W. Wertz, 1929
* R. P. DeVan, 1934
* D. Boone Dawson, 1935–1947
* R. Carl Andrews, 1947–1950
* John T. Copenhaver, 1951–1959
* John A. Shanklin, 1959–1967
* Elmer H. Dodson, 1967–1971
* [[John G. Hutchinson]], 1971–1980
* [[Joe F. Smith]], 1980–1983
* James E. "Mike" Roark, 1983–1987
* Charles R. "Chuck" Gardner, 1987–1991
* Kent Strange Hall, 1991–1995
* G. Kemp Melton, 1995–1999
* Jay Goldman, 1999–2003<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001216065300/http://www.cityofcharleston.org/mayor.htm |url=http://www.cityofcharleston.org/mayor.htm |archive-date=December 16, 2000 |title=Mayor's Office |work=Cityofcharleston.org |via=Internet Archive, [[Wayback Machine]] |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Danny Jones (politician)|Danny Jones]], 2003–2019<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030810125231/http://www.cityofcharleston.org/mayor.htm |url=http://www.cityofcharleston.org/mayor.htm |archive-date=August 10, 2003 |title=Office of the Mayor |work=Cityofcharleston.org |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Amy Shuler Goodwin]], 2019–present
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