List of mayors of Poplar Bluff, Missouri
The city of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is the third-most populous city in Missouri's 8th congressional district and southeastern Missouri.
The town was started in 1850. The city was incorporated on February 9, 1870.
List of mayors
| Mayor | Took office | Left office | Additional information |
| Joseph T. Davison | 1883 | Ohio-born Civil war veteran who served in the 68th Illinois Infantry and the 3rd Illinois Cavalry before moving to Poplar Bluff in 1874. | |
| Thomas Hugh Moore | 1887 | 1887 | In 1896, this general mercantile store operator was appointed Butler County collector by Governor William Stone. |
| James Robert Hogg | 1897 | 1897 | Farmer, meat merchant, sheriff, and distillery owner originally from Indiana. |
| John W. Berryman | c. 1909 | c. 1911 | |
| Robert G. Felts | c. 1914 | ||
| John W. Berryman | c. 1917 | c. 1919 | |
| Edgar G. Hammons | c. 1926 | ||
| John W. Berryman | c. 1927 | ||
| Bayles Kennedy Flannery | c. 1929 He was born near Golconda, Illinois. | ||
| Z. Lee Stekley | c. 1931 | ||
| Clyde E. Richardson | 1945 | A banker who previously resigned as mayor to join the Army Finance Corps during World War II. | |
| Arch W. Bartlett | 1945 | 1946 | |
| Clyde E. Richardson | 1947 | 1949 | |
| E. W. Robinson | |||
| Arch W. Bartlett | 1953 | 1953 | |
| E. W. Robinson | 1954 | 1956 | |
| John S. West | 1957 | 1963 | |
| Walter F. Thies | He served as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot during World War II. | ||
| Robert L. Odell | U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War | ||
| J. C. Allen | 1963 | 1967 | |
| Earl C. Porter | 1967 | 1970 | |
| Louie N. Snider | 1970 | 1972 | The first mayor of the present form of city government. Snider served in the Battle of the Bulge under General Patton. |
| Harold Jackson | 1972 | 1973 | |
| Bernard R. Wheetley | 1973 | 1975 | Delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1964. |
| Paul Henry Hillis | 1975 | 1975 | Hillis joined the Seabees during World War II. Dean of Three Rivers Community College. |
| Bill I. Foster | 1979 | 1980 | Missouri state senator, 2001-2005; Missouri state representative, 1993-2001. Foster also served in the National Guard. |
| Gerald Lynn Rains | 1980 | 1981 | Former Butler County Clerk, 1982-1986. |
| Bill Sparks | 1981 | 1982 | Sparks served on the planning commission for Russellville, Arkansas, for 17 years. |
| Thomas F. Allen | 1983 | 1984 | Assistant Superintendent of Poplar Bluff public schools. |
| Bruce E. Holloway | - | ||
| Bill Sparks | 1985 | 1986 | |
| Robert P. MacDonald | 1987 | 1988 | |
| Calvin M. Rutledge | 1988 | 1989 | Rutledge resigned during a later term to become director of the Black River Coliseum. |
| Thomas J. Lawson | Lawson has also served as Poplar Bluff city manager and as chairman of the Highway 67 Corporation Board and the Highway 67 Coalition. | ||
| Betty Absheer | Betty Absheer was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Poplar Bluff. She was appointed to the City Council in 1989 and subsequently elected to a full term. She retired from the City Council in 2016. | ||
| Ron Black | 1996 | ||
| Chris Rustin | 1998 | ||
| Reid Forrester | 2000 | Poplar Bluff City Council, 1996-2002. In 2005, he was appointed to the Board of Probation and Parole. Chief of Staff to Lieutenant Governor Peter D. Kinder since 2015. | |
| Calvin Rutledge | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Johnny Brannum | 2000 | ||
| Scott Faughn | 2002 | 2005 | Faughn was elected the city's youngest mayor at age 22. |
| Loyd Lee Matthews | Matthews served 3 years as mayor and 12 years on the city council. He served 4 years in the U.S. Navy around the time of the Korean War. | ||
| Susan Williams-McVey | c. 2007 | ||
| Ed DeGaris | 2011 | 2014 | Retired police lieutenant who was elected to the City Council in 2009. |
| Angela Pearson | 2014 | 2015 | The city's youngest female mayor. |
| Betty Absheer | 2015 | 2016 | With Councilwoman Angela Pearson absent for health reasons, the city council was deadlocked and unable to elect a mayor. All council members' names were put in a cup, and Ms. Absheer's name was drawn out of the cup by city attorney Robert L. Smith. Thus, she became the mayor for the 2015-2016 term. |
| Ed DeGaris | 2016 | ||
| Robert Smith | 2019 | First African-American mayor. |