| 1913 | Mayor A. P. Wooldridge | Austin |
| 1914 | Mayor R. M. Chapman | Greenville |
| 1915 | Mayor E H. McCuistion | Paris |
| 1916 | Mayor J. B. Marmion | Houston Heights |
| 1917 | Mayor W H. Knight | Hillsboro |
| 1918 | Mayor Sam C. Bell | San Antonio |
| 1919 | Mayor F. D. Wozencraft | Dallas |
| 1920 | Mayor J. W Chancellor | Bowie |
| 1921 | City Manager H. J. Graeser | Tyler |
| 1922 | Mayor W E Cockrell | Fort Worth |
| 1923 | Mayor W E Lee | Orange |
| 1924 | Mayor O. F. Holcombe | Houston |
| 1925 | Mayor J. Austin Barnes | Beaumont |
| 1926 | Mayor T. F. Justiss | Paris |
| 1927 | Mayor R. E Thomason | El Paso |
| 1928 | Commissioner J. Barney Davis | Dallas |
| 1929 | City Manager E E McAdams | Waco |
| 1930 | Mayor Ed S McCarver | Orange |
| 1931 | City Attorney J. B. Rector | Austin |
| 1932 | Mayor Frank Morris Jr. | Gainesville |
| 1933 | Mayor Walter Nelson Jr. | Wichita Falls |
| 1934 | Mayor Max Starcke | Seguin |
| 1935 | Mayor D. C. Harris | Mineral Wells |
| 1936 | Mayor P. D. Renfro | Beaumont |
| 1937 | City Manager R. G. Williams | Bryan |
| 1938 | Mayor William V. Brown | Texarkana |
| 1939 | City Attorney R. E Rouer | Fort Worth |
| 1940 | City Manager Bill N Taylor | Port Arthur |
| 1941 | Mayor Roger W Moore | Seguin |
| 1942 | Mayor Hugh S Cluck | Laredo |
| 1943 | Mayor Conrad F. Russell | Weatherford |
| 1944 | Mayor J. A. Sadler | Colorado City |
| 1945 | City Manager Lee H. Powell | Sherman |
| 1945 | Mayor Joe A. Jenkins | Amarillo |
| 1946 | Mayor C. P. Dodson | Decatur |
| 1947 | Councilman Phil Hamburger | Houston |
| 1948 | City Attorney H. P. Kucera | Dallas |
| 1949 | Mayor George D. Barber | Mineral Wells |
| 1950 | City Commissioner Charles Oehler | Galveston |
| 1951 | City Councilman Edgar Deen | Fort Worth |
| 1951 | Mayor Armistead Rust | San Angelo |
| 1952 | Mayor Jim Wright | Weatherford |
| 1953 | Mayor J. L. Bullard | Kerrville |
| 1954 | Mayor R. F. Newsome | McKinney |
| 1955 | Mayor H. L. Stokely | Brownsville |
| 1955 | Mayor G. E Gatlin | Abilene |
| 1956 | Mayor Harold R. Downs | Odessa |
| 1957 | Mayor A. P. Miller Jr. | Texarkana |
| 1958 | Councilman-at-Large Louie Welch | Houston |
| 1959 | Mayor Philip Boeye | McAllen |
| 1960 | Mayor James H. McCrocklin | Kingsville |
| 1961 | City Attorney George E Murphy | Beaumont |
| 1962 | Mayor Robert Willis, Jr. | Livingston |
| 1963 | Mayor Lewis Cutrer | Houston |
| 1964 | Mayor ProTem W B. Stange Jr. | Richardson |
| 1964 | Mayor Hank Avery | Midland |
| 1965 | Mayor W W McAllister | San Antonio |
| 1966 | Alderman D. Clifford Burross | Wichita Falls |
| 1967 | Mayor Judson F. Williams | El Paso |
| 1968 | Councilman L. O’Brien Thompson | Amarillo |
| 1969 | Mayor Erik Jonsson | Dallas |
| 1970 | Mayor Kemper Williams Jr. | Victoria |
| 1971 | Mayor Alfred Koebig | Seguin |
| 1972 | Mayor Jamie H. Clements | Temple |
| 1973 | Mayor Wes Wise | Dallas |
| 1974 | Mayor Bill Neu | Denton |
| 1975 | Mayor Lila Cockrell | San Antonio |
| 1976 | Mayor Fred Hofheinz | Houston |
| 1977 | Mayor Richard J. Hoyer | Monahans |
| 1978 | Mayor Bob Folsom | Dallas |
| 1979 | Councilmember Malcolm Clark | Port Arthur |
| 1980 | Mayor Carole Keeton McClellan | Austin |
| 1981 | Mayor Pro Tem Alan Henry | Lubbock |
| 1982 | Mayor Luther Jones | Corpus Christi |
| 1983 | Mayor Ralph Blodgett | Spearman |
| 1984 | Mayor Henry Cisneros | San Antonio |
| 1985 | Councilmember March Coffield | Jasper |
| 1986 | Mayor Bob Bolen | Fort Worth |
| 1987 | Councilmember Florence Shapiro | Plano |
| 1988 | Mayor Kathryn J. Whitmire | Houston |
| 1989 | Mayor Pro Tem Joan Baker | Lubbock |
| 1990 | Mayor Lee Cooke | Austin |
| 1991 | Mayor Pro Tem John R. Marshall | Lancaster |
| 1992 | Mayor Gary D. McCaleb | Abilene |
| 1993 | Councilmember Fred Guerra | SanMarcos |
| 1994 | Mayor Pro Tem Max Wells | Dallas |
| 1995 | Mayor Jerry Dunn | Benbrook |
| 1996 | Mayor William Thornton | San Antonio |
| 1997 | Mayor Jimmy Burke | Deer Park |
| 1998 | Councilmember T. J. Patterson | Lubbock |
| 1999 | Mayor Kenneth Barr | Fort Worth |
| 2000 | Mayor Loyd Neal Jr. | Corpus Christi |
| 2001 | Mayor Pro Tem Guy Goodson | Beaumont |
| 2002 | Mayor Pro Tem Jackie Levingston | Groesbeck |
| 2003 | Mayor Pro Tem Terry Henley | Meadows Place |
| 2004 | Councilmember Dock Jackson | Bastrop |
| 2005 | Mayor Pro Tem Henry Wilson | Hurst |
| 2006 | Councilmember Carol Alvarado | Houston |
| 2007 | Mayor Todd Pearson | Rockport |
| 2008 | Mayor John Cook | El Paso |
| 2009 | Mayor Debra McCartt | Amarillo |
| 2010 | Mayor Robert Cluck | Arlington |
| 2011 | Mayor Leonard Reed
| Willis |
| 2012 | Mayor John Monaco
| Mesquite
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| 2013 | Councilmember Jungus Jordan
| Fort Worth
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| 2014 | Mayor Nelda Martinez
| Corpus Christi
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| 2015 | Mayor C.J. Wax
| Rockport
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| 2016 | Mayor Mary M. Dennis
| Live Oak
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| 2017 | Mayor Pro Tem Holly Gray-Moore
| Roanoke
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| 2018 | Mayor Pro Tem John B. Love III | Midland |
| 2019 | Mayor Eddie Daffern | Staples |
| 2020 | Mayor Karen Hunt | Coppell |
| 2021 | Vice Mayor Pro Tem Martha Castex-Tatum | Houston |