Gary R. McCarthy has been the current mayor since 2011.[1]
List of mayors
1798 — Joseph C. Yates (Democratic-Republican, 1798-1806; Clintonian Faction, 1806-08) — Elected yearly by common council; Later Governor of New York.[2]
1808 — John Yates (Democratic-Republican) Elected twice by common council to 1st two terms
1811 — John Yates (Democratic-Republican) Elected twice by common council to third & fourth terms
1813 — Maus Schermerhorn (Federalist) Elected four times by common council
1817 — Henry Yates, Jr. (Democratic-Republican/Bucktail Faction) Elected eight times by common council
1825 — Isaac Maus Schermerhorn (Democratic-Republican/Clintonian) Elected once by common council to 1st term
1826 — David Boyd (Democratic-Republican/Bucktail Faction, 1826-28; Jacksonian, 1828) Elected twice by common council
1828 — Isaac Maus Schermerhorn (Adams Supporter, 1828-30; Nationalist Republican, 1830-31) Elected thrice by common council to 2nd-4th terms
1831 — Archibald Craig (Party unknown - needs more research) - Elected by common council once[4]
1832 — John Isaac DeGraff (Jacksonian, 1832-35; Democrat, 1835) Elected twice by common council, popularly elected in 1834 to one-year term (first three terms)
1835 — Archibald Ladley Linn (Whig) Popularly elected to one-year term (1st term)
1836 — John Isaac DeGraff (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (4th term)
1837 — Samuel William Jones (Democrat) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms
1839 — Archibald Ladley Linn (Whig) Popularly elected to one-year term (2nd term)
1840 — Alexander C. Gibson (Whig, though also listed as Democrat) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms (1st-2nd terms)
1842 — John Isaac DeGraff (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (5th term)
1843 — Alexander C. Gibson (Whig) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms (3rd-4th terms)
1845 — John Isaac DeGraff (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (6th term)
1846 — Peter Rowe (Democrat) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms (1st-2nd terms)
1848 — James E. Van Horne (Whig) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms
1850 — Peter Rowe (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (3rd term)
1851 — Mordecai Myers (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (1st term); First Jewish Mayor
1852 — Abram A. Van Vorst (Democrat) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms (1st-2nd terms)
1854 — Mordecai Myers (Democrat) Popularly elected to one-year term (2nd term), resigned March 21, 1855
1855 — Casper F. Hoag (Whig) Member of Council, elected March 26, 1855 by Common (City) Council for remaining weeks of Mayoral term to April
1855 — Abel Smith (American/Know-Nothing) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms, first Mayor elected from Know-Nothing Party
1857 — Benjamin V. S. Vedder (American/Know-Nothing) Popularly elected to one-year term, second & last Mayor elected from Know-Nothing Party
1858 — Alex M. Vedder (Republican) Popularly elected to one-year term, first Republican Mayor
1859 — David P. Forrest (Republican) Popularly elected to one-year term
1860 — Benjamin F. Potter (Republican) Popularly elected to one-year term
1861 — Arthur W. Hunter (Democrat) Popularly elected to two, one-year terms, first to be elected in 1863 to a two-year term (1st-3rd terms)
1865 — Andrew McMullen (Democrat) Popularly elected to two, two-year terms
1869 — Abram A. Van Vorst (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term (3rd term)
1871 — William J. Van Horne (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1873 — Arthur W. Hunter (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term (4th term)
1875 — Peter B. Yates (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term. Died in office July 4, 1876 north of Garrison, NY, on Hudson River train of apoplexy (stroke).[5]
7/4/1876 — William Howes Smith (Democrat) Succeeded Mayor Yates upon his death, popularly elected to one, two-year term in April 1877
1879 — Joseph P. Graham (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1881 — Abram A. Van Vorst (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term (4th term)
1883 — John Young (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1885 — Henry S. DeForest (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term (1st term)
1887 — (Thomas) Low Barhydt (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1889 — Henry S. DeForest (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term (2nd term)
1891 — Everett Smith (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1893 — Jacob Winne Clute (Republican) Popularly elected to two, two-year terms (1st-2nd terms) (2nd term extended from April to December 31st in 1897)
1898 — Charles C. Duryee (Silver Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term commencing 1/1/1898 (1st term)
1900 — John H. White (Democrat) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
1902 — Horace S. Van Voast (Republican) Popularly elected to one, two-year term
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