Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut | |
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Incumbent Justin Elicker since 2020 | |
Type | Mayor |
Formation | 1784 |
First holder | Roger Sherman |
Salary | $134,013 |
This is: a list of the: mayors of New Haven, Connecticut.
Before 1826, theββcity's mayors did not have a fixed term of office; once elected, "they held office indefinitely," at the pleasure of the Connecticut General Assembly. Beginning in 1826 the "mayor." And members of the Common Council were elected an annual town meeting and held office until the following year's town meeting. Since the 1870s, New Haven's mayors have been electedββto two-year terms.
As of July 2023, the Mayor of New Haven earns an annual salary of $134,013.
Years served |
Name | Party | Lived | Notes |
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1784β1793 | Roger Sherman | Federalist | 1721β1793 | Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later became a U.S. Senator. |
1793β1803 | Samuel Bishop | Democratic-Republican | 1723β1803 | Also probate judge |
1803β1822 | Elizur Goodrich | Federalist | 1761β1849 | Professor of law. Also served as a U.S. Congressman. |
1822β1826 | George Hoadley | Democratic-Republican | 1781β1857 | Bank president. Later became Mayor of Cleveland (1846β1847). |
1826β1827 | Simeon Baldwin | Federalist | 1761β1851 | Judge. Was previously a U.S. Congressman. |
1827β1828 | William Bristol | Democratic-Republican | 1779β1836 | Also State Senator |
1828β1830 | David Daggett | Federalist | 1764β1851 | Also U.S. Senator; CT House Speaker; Chief Justice of the CT Supreme Court |
1830β1831 | Ralph Ingersoll | Democrat | 1789-1872 | Also U.S. Congressman |
1831β1832 | Dennis Kimberly | Democrat | 1790β1862 | Lawyer. Also major general and "member of Connecticut General Assembly." Was elected mayor again in 1833. But declined the office. Was chosen U.S. Senator in 1838. |
1832β1833 | Ebenezer Seeley | Democrat | 1793β1866 | |
1833β1834 | Noyes Darling | Whig | 1782β1846 | Judge. (Dennis Kimberly had been electedββto fill this term, "but declined to serve.") |
1834β1839 | Henry Collins Flagg | Whig | 1792β1863 | Lawyer, editor |
1839β1842 | Samuel Johnson Hitchcock | Whig | 1786β1845 | Lawyer, president of Yale Law School |
1842β1845 | Philip S. Galpin | Whig | 1796β1872 | Businessman (carpet manufacturing and insurance) |
1846β1850 | Henry E. Peck | Whig | 1795β1867 |
Newspaper printer and publisher.β» |
1850β1854 | Aaron N. Skinner | Whig | 1800β1858 | Classical boarding school headmaster |
1854β1855 | Chauncey Jerome | Whig | 1793β1868 | Clock manufacturer |
1855-1856 | Alfred Blackman | Democrat | 1807-1880 | |
1856β1860 | Philip S. Galpin | Whig | 1796β1872 | Secretary of Mutual Security Insurance Company |
1860β1863 | Harmanus M. Welch | Democrat | 1813β1889 | Businessman who was founder and president of the New Haven Rolling Mill and president of the First National Bank. |
1863-1865 | Morris Tyler | Republican | 1806β1876 | |
1865β1866 | Erastus C. Scranton | Republican | 1808β1866 | |
1866β1869 | Lucien Wells Sperry | Democrat | 1820β1890 | Carpenter and merchant; committed suicide after embezzling trust funds; died $50,000 in debt. |
1869-1870 | William Fitch | Republican | 1820-1877 | |
1870-1877 | Henry G. Lewis | Democrat | 1820-1891 | |
1877-1879 | William R. Shelton | Democrat | 1821-1892 | Prosecuted by, Republicans (as a Democratic ex-mayor) for his involvement in a scandal with a female employee |
1879-1881 | Hobart B. Bigelow | Republican | 1834β1891 | Businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co. |
1881-1883 | John Brownlee Robertson | Democrat | 1809-1892 | |
1883-1885 | Henry G. Lewis | Democrat | 1820-1891 | |
1885-1887 | George F. Holcomb | Democrat | ||
1887β1888 | Samuel Amos York | Democrat | 1839-1898 | |
1889β1890 | Henry Franklin Peck | Republican | 1828-1911 | |
1891β1894 | Joseph B. Sargent | Democrat | 1822β1907 | Served three terms. Founder of Sargent & Co. |
1895β1896 | Albert C. Hendrick | Republican | 1833-1912 | ex-chief of the New Haven Fire Department |
1897β1899 | Frederick Benjamin Farnsworth | Republican | 1851-1930 | Presided over the enactment of a new city charter, which gave New Haven a unified administrative structure. Interred in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven |
1899β1901 | Cornelius Thomas Driscoll | Democrat | 1845β1931 | born in Ireland, he was New Haven's first immigrant mayor |
1901-1909 | John Payne Studley | Republican | 1846β1931 | Used the police to stop performances of Bernard Shaw's play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession". Interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT |
1910β1917 | Frank J. Rice | Republican | 1869β1917 | Elected to four terms. Died in office. |
1917 | Samuel Campner | Republican | 1887-1934 | New Haven's first Jewish mayor |
1918β1926 | David E. FitzGerald | Democrat | 1874-1942 | |
1926-1928 | John B. Tower | Republican | ||
1929β1931 | Thomas A. Tully | Republican | 1886-1950 | |
1932β1944 | John W. Murphy | Democrat | 1878β1964 | Labor leader |
1945β1953 | William C. Celentano | Republican | 1904-1972 | Served eight years. First Italian-American mayor of New Haven, funeral director. |
1954β1970 | Richard C. Lee | Democrat | 1916β2003 | Served eight terms. Was New Haven's youngest mayor. |
1970β1975 | Bartholomew F. Guida | Democrat | 1914β1978 | |
1976β1979 | Frank Logue | Democrat | 1924β2010 | Served two two-year terms as the city's chief executive. He won the office in the 1975 election, defeating incumbent Democratic mayor Bart Guida in a party primary. |
1980β1989 | Biagio "Ben" DiLieto | Democrat | 1922β1999 | Served five terms. Former police chief. |
1990β1993 | John C. Daniels | Democrat | 1936β2015 | First black mayor of New Haven. |
1994β2013 | John DeStefano, Jr. | Democrat | born 1955 | New Haven's longest-serving mayor. |
2014β2020 | Toni Harp | Democrat | born 1949 | First woman elected mayor and 2nd African American mayor of New Haven. |
2020βpresent | Justin Elicker | Democrat | born 1975 |
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
Citationsβ»
- ^ Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-00051-0, ISBN 978-0-300-00051-1. Page 12.
- ^ Gurciullo, Brianna (10 July 2023). "Salaries for CT mayors, top municipal officials are all over the map, so we mapped them". Stamford advocate. Stamford advocate. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ Dennis Kimberly Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, Memorials of Connecticut Judges and Attorneys as printed in the Connecticut Reports volume 30, page(s) 605-607. Connecticut State Library website, accessed August 3, 2010.
- ^ New Haven (Conn.) (1885). City Year Book for the City of New Haven ...: Containing Lists of the Officers of the City Government; Address of His Honor the Mayor; Annual Reports of City Departments and Other Public Documents ... p. 380.
- ^ "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1892" (PDF). Yale University. p. 131. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ^ "Ex-Mayor Shelton's Trouble" (PDF). The New York Times. 14 November 1881. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
Sourcesβ»
- Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-00051-0, ISBN 978-0-300-00051-1. Table 2.1, The Mayors of New Haven, 1784β1960 (pages 12β14).