List of mayors of Utica, New York

This article contains a list of mayors of the city of Utica in the U.S. State of New York, in the United States.

Mayor of Utica
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Incumbent Michael P. Galime since January 1, 2024
Style	The Honorable
Term length	Four years; renewable
Inaugural holder	Joseph Kirkland
Formation	1832
Salary	$93,500 (2020)
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List

No.	Mayor	Party	Term	Ref
1	Joseph Kirkland	Federalist	1832	[1]
2	Henry Seymour		1833	[2]
3	Joseph Kirkland	Federalist	1834–1835	[1]
4	John H. Ostrom		1836	[3]
5	Theodore S. Gold	Whig	1837	[4]
6	Charles P. Kirkland		1838	[4]
7	John C. Devereux		1839–1840	[5]
8	Spencer Kellogg	Whig	1841	[6]
9	Horatio Seymour	Democratic	1842	[7]
10	Frederick Hollister	Whig	1843	[8]
11	Ward Hunt	Democratic	1844	[9]
12	Edmund A. Wetmore	Whig	1845–1846	[10]
13	James Watson Williams	Democratic	1847	[11]
14	Joshua A. Spencer	Whig	1848	[12]
15	Thomas R. Walker	Whig	1849–1850	[13]
16	John E. Hinman	Democratic	1851–1852	[14]
17	Charles H. Doolittle	Democratic	1853	[15]
18	John E. Hinman	Democratic	1854	[14]
19	Henry Hopkins Fish	Whig	1855	[16]
20	Alrick Hubbell	Whig	1856–1858	[17]
21	Roscoe Conkling	Republican	1858–1859	[18]
22	Charles Stuart Wilson	Democratic	1859	[19]
23	Calvin Hall	Republican	1860	[19]
24	DeWitt C. Grove	Democratic	1860–1862	[19]
25	Charles S. Wilson		1863
26	Theodore S. Faxton	National Union	1864	[20]
27	John Warren Butterfield	National Union	1865	[21]
28	James McQuade	National Union	1866	[22]
29	Charles S. Wilson		1867
30	John T. Spriggs	Democratic	1868	[23]
31	Ephraim Chamberlain	Democratic	1869	[24]
32	James McQuade		1870
33	Miles C. Comstock	Democratic	1871	[25]
34	Theodore F. Butterfield	Republican	1872	[26]
35	Charles K. Grannis	Democratic	1873	[27]
36	Theodore S. Sayre	Republican	1874	[28]
37	Charles W. Hutchinson	Democratic	1875	[29]
38	Charles E. Barnard		1876
39	David H. Gaffin	Republican	1877	[30]
40	James Benton	Workingmen's	1878	[31]
41	John Buckley	Democratic	1879	[32]
42	John T. Spriggs	Democratic	1880	[23]
43	James Miller	Republican	1881	[33]
44	Francis Marion Burdick		1882	[34]
45	Charles A. Doolittle	Democratic	1883	[35]
46	James S. Sherman	Republican	1884	[36]
47	Thomas E. Kinney	Democratic	1885–1887	[37]
48	Henry Martin	Democratic	1888	[38]
49	Samuel J. Barrows	Democratic	1889	[39]
50	Alexander T. Goodwin	Democratic	1890–1891	[40]
51	Thomas Wheeler	Republican	1892–1893	[41]
52	John G. Gibson	Democratic	1894–1897	[42]
53	Thomas E. Kinney	Republican	1898–1899	[43]
54	George Beatty		1899
55	Richard W. Sherman		1900–1901	[44]
56	Charles A. Talcott	Democratic	1902–1906	[44]
57	Richard W. Sherman		1906–1908	[44]
58	Thomas Wheeler		1908–1910	[44]
59	Frederick Gillmore	Democratic	1910–1912	[44]
60	Frank J. Baker	Republican	1912–1914	[44]
61	James D. Smith		1914–1920	[44]
62	James K. O'Connor	Democratic	1920–1922	[44]
63	Fred J. Douglas	Republican	1922–1924	[44]
64	Frederick Gillmore	Democratic	1924–1928	[44]
65	Fred J. Rath	Republican	1928–1930	[44]
66	Charles S. Donnelley	Democratic	1930–1934	[44]
67	Samuel Sloan	Republican	1934–1936	[44]
68	Vincent R. Corrou	Democratic	1936–1944	[44]
69	J. Bradley German Jr.	Republican	1944–1946	[44]
70	Boyd Golder	Democratic	1946–1956	[44]
71	John T. McKennan	Democratic	1956–1959	[44]
72	Frank M. Dulan	Republican	1959–1968	[44]
73	Dominick Assaro	Democratic	1968–1972	[44]
74	Michael Caruso	Republican	1972–1974	[44]
75	Edward A. Hanna	Independent	1974–1978	[44]
76	Stephen J. Pawlinga	Democratic	1978–1984	[44]
77	Louis D. LaPolla	Republican	1984–1996	[44]
78	Edward A. Hanna	Independent	1996–2000	[44]
79	Timothy J. Julian	Republican	2000–2008	[44]
80	David R. Roefaro	Democratic	2008–2012	[44]
81	Robert M. Palmieri	Democratic	2012–2024	[44]
82	Michael P. Galime	Republican	2024–present	[45]

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