List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut

This is a list of the Mayors of New Haven, Connecticut.

Before 1826, the city'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 elected to two-year terms.[1]

As of July 2012, the Mayor of New Haven earns an annual salary of $127,070.[2]

Years
served		 Name Party Lived Notes
1784–1793 Roger Sherman Federalist 1721–1793 Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later became a U.S. Senator.
1793–1803 Samuel Bishop Democrat-Republican Also probate judge
1803–1822 Elizur Goodrich Federalist 1761–1849 Professor of law. Also served as a U.S. Congressman. New Haven's longest-serving mayor (19 years).
1822–1826 George Hoadley Democrat-Republican/Jacksonian Democrat 1781–1857 Bank president. Later became Mayor of Cleveland (1846–1847).
1826–1827 Simeon Baldwin Federalist 1761–1851 Judge. Was previously a U.S. Congressman.
1827–1828 William Bristol Democrat-Republican 1779–1836 Also State Senator
1828–1830 David Daggett Federalist 1764–1851 Also U.S. Senator; CT House Speaker; Chief Justice of the CT Supreme Court
1830–1831 Ralph Ingersoll Democrat Also U.S. Congressman
1831–1832 Dennis Kimberly Democrat 1790–1862 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.[3]
1832–1833 Ebenezer Seeley Democrat
1833–1834 Noyes Darling Whig Judge
1834–1839 Henry Collins Flagg Whig Lawyer, editor
1839–1842 S. J. Hitchcock Whig Lawyer, law teacher
1842–1846 Philip S. Galpin Whig Businessman (carpet manufacturing and insurance)
1846–1850 Henry E. Peck Whig 1795–1867

Newspaper printer and publisher.

1850–1854 A. N. Skinner Whig Classical boarding school headmaster
1851 Ralph I. Ingersoll 1789–1872 [4]
1854–1855 Chauncey Jerome Whig Clock manufacturer
1855-1856 Alfred Blackman [5]
1856–1860 Philip S. Galpin Whig Secretary of Mutual Security Insurance Company
1860–1863 Harmanus M. Welch Democrat 1813–1889 Businessman who was founder and president of the New Haven Rolling Mill and president of the First National Bank.
1863-1865 Morris Tyler [5]
1865-1866 Erastus C. Scranton [5]
1866–1869 Lucien Wells Sperry 1820−1890 Carpenter and merchant; committed suicide after embezzling trust funds; died $50,000 in debt.
1869-1870 William Fitch [5]
1870-1877 Henry G. Lewis [5]
1877-1879 William R. Shelton [5]
1879-1881 Hobart B. Bigelow 1834–1891 Businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co.
1881-1883 John B. Robertson [5]
1883-1885 Henry G. Lewis [5]
1885-1887 George F. Holcomb [5]
1887–1888 Samuel A. York
1889–1890 Henry F. Peck
1891–1894 Joseph B. Sargent Democrat 1822–1907 Served three terms. Founder of Sargent & Co.
1895–1896 Albert C. Hendrick
1897–1899 Frederick B. Farnsworth 1851-1930 Interred in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven
1899–1901 Cornelius T. Driscoll About 1845–1931
1905 John Payne Studley Republican 1846–1931 Interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
1910–1917 Frank J. Rice Republican 1869–1917 Elected to four terms. Died in office.
1917 Samuel Campner
1918–1922 David E. FitzGerald
1928 John B. Tower
1929–1931 Thomas A. Tully
1932–1935 John W. Murphy Democrat Labor leader
1940–1941 John W. Murphy Democrat
1945–1953 William C. Celentano Republican 1904-1972 Served eight years. First Italian-American mayor of New Haven, funeral director.
1954–1970 Richard C. Lee Democrat 1916–2003 Served eight terms. Was New Haven's youngest mayor.
1970–1975 Bartholomew F. Guida Democrat 1914–1978
1976–1979 Frank Logue Democrat 1924–2010 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.
1980–1989 Biagio DiLieto Democrat 1922–1999 Served five terms. Former police chief.
1990–1993 John C. Daniels Democrat 1936–2015 First black mayor of New Haven.
1994–2013 John DeStefano, Jr. Democrat born 1955 New Haven's longest serving mayor.
2014–present Toni Harp Democrat born 1949 First woman elected mayor of New Haven.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Finch, mayor of biggest city, doesn't earn biggest salary". ctnews.com. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Dennis Kimberly, 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.
  4. ↑ Not in Dahl's list for this date. This date comes from United States Congress. "INGERSOLL, Ralph Isaacs, (1789 - 1872) (id: I000020)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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.
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