Mayor of Nairobi

The Mayor of Nairobi was the non-executive head of Nairobi City Council in Nairobi, Kenya until the new constitution of 2010 which devolved government was enacted. The Mayor's office, officially the Mayor’s Palour, was located at City Hall Nairobi. The last mayor of Nairobi was George Aladwa of ODM, elected on 10 August 2011.^[1]

There was no Mayor of Nairobi from 1983 to 1992 because the City Council of Nairobi was replaced by the City Commission appointed by then president

. The City Council was restored after the multi-party elections of 1992. In the year 2013 the office of mayor ceased to exist since under the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 local governments were replaced by county governments.

The following is a list of the mayors of Nairobi from the time the city was a colonial town.

Mayor	Term begin	Term end	Notes
H. Edgar Henderson	1923	1924
Charles Udall	1924	1925
James Riddell	1925	1927
Alfred Thomas Wood	1927	1929
Charles Udall	1929	1930
Franze Rudolf Mayer	1930	1931
James Riddell	1931	1933
Joseph Mortimer	1933	1934
Edward (George) Gwinnett Bompas	1934	1936
Alfred Thomas Wood	1936	1937	Died April 1944[2]
Joseph Mortimer	1937	1938	Died 24 November 1948[3]
Gwladys, Lady Delamere	1938	1940
Ernest Albert Vasey	1941	1942
Charles Udall	1942	1944
Ernest Albert Vasey	1944	1946
Tyson George Alfred	1946	1947
Frederick George Richard Woodley	1949	1950
Norman Harris	1950	1952
Dr. J.R. Gregory	1952	1953
Harold Travis	1953	1954
Reggie S. Alexander	1954	1955	First mayor of Nairobi born in Kenya. Died 31 March 1990.[4]
Israel Somen	1957	1959
Marjorie Needham-Clarke	1959	1960
Harold Travis	1961	1962	The last European mayor of Nairobi.
Charles Rubia	1963	1967	The first African mayor of Nairobi.
Isack Lugonzo	1967	1970
Margaret Kenyatta	1970	1976
Andrew Ngumba	1977	1980
Nathan Kahara	1980	1983
Abolished	1983	1992	Nairobi City Commission had been established to replace the Nairobi City Council.
Steve Flavian Mwangi	1993	1994
Dick Waweru	1994	1996
John King'ori	1996	1998
Sammy Mbugua	1998	1999
John Ndirangu	1999	2001
Dick Waweru	2001	2002
Joe Aketch	2003	2004
Dickson Wathika	2004	2008
Geoffrey Majiwa	2008	2010
George Aladwa	2011	2013

See also

• Timeline of Nairobi

Sources

References

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3. Norman Harris: From trusteeship to development: how class and gender complicated Kenya's housing policy, 1939–1963

4. Lady Gwladys (Gladys) Delamere: "The 1940s". East African Women's League. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011.

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5. Massie-Blomfield, R.A. (10 July 2010). "Reward those who value colonial heritage". Daily Nation. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

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