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

Name	Party	Term	Ref
Joseph Kirkland	Federalist	1832	[1]
Henry Seymour		1833	[2]
Joseph Kirkland	Federalist	1834–1835	[1]
John H. Ostrom		1836	[3]
Theodore S. Gold	Whig	1837	[4]
Charles P. Kirkland		1838	[4]
John C. Devereux		1839–1840	[5]
Spencer Kellogg		1841
Horatio Seymour	Democratic	1842	[2]
Frederick Hollister	Whig	1843	[6]
Ward Hunt	Democratic	1844	[7]
Edmund A. Wetmore	Whig	1845–1846	[8]
James Watson Williams	Democratic	1847	[9]
Joshua A. Spencer	Whig	1848	[10]
Thomas R. Walker	Whig	1849–1850	[11]
John E. Hinman	Democratic	1851–1852	[12]
Charles H. Doolittle	Democratic	1853	[13]
John E. Hinman	Democratic	1854	[12]
Henry Hopkins Fish	Whig	1855	[14]
Alrick Hubbell	Whig	1856–1858	[15]
Roscoe Conkling	Republican	1858–1859	[16]
Charles Stuart Wilson	Democratic	1859	[17]
Calvin Hall	Republican	1860	[17]
DeWitt C. Grove	Democratic	1860–1862	[17]
Charles S. Wilson		1863
Theodore S. Faxton	National Union	1864	[18]
John Warren Butterfield	National Union	1865	[19]
James McQuade	National Union	1866	[20]
Charles S. Wilson		1867
John T. Spriggs	Democratic	1868	[21]
Ephraim Chamberlain	Democratic	1869	[22]
James McQuade		1870
Miles C. Comstock	Democratic	1871	[23]
Theodore F. Butterfield	Republican	1872	[24]
Charles K. Grannis	Democratic	1873	[25]
Theodore S. Sayre	Republican	1874	[26]
Charles W. Hutchinson	Democratic	1875	[27]
Charles E. Barnard		1876
David H. Gaffin	Republican	1877	[28]
James Benton	Workingmen's	1878	[29]
John Buckley	Democratic	1879	[30]
John T. Spriggs	Democratic	1880	[21]
James Miller	Republican	1881	[31]
Francis M. Burdick		1882
Charles A. Doolittle	Democratic	1883	[32]
James S. Sherman	Republican	1884	[33]
Thomas E. Kinney	Democratic	1885–1887	[34]
Henry Martin	Democratic	1888	[35]
Samuel J. Barrows	Democratic	1889	[36]
Alexander T. Goodwin	Democratic	1890–1891	[37]
Thomas Wheeler	Republican	1892–1893	[38]
John G. Gibson	Democratic	1894–1897	[39]
Thomas E. Kinney	Republican	1898–1899	[40]
George Beatty		1899
Richard W. Sherman		1900–1901	[41]
Charles A. Talcott	Democratic	1902–1906	[41]
Richard W. Sherman		1906–1908	[41]
Thomas Wheeler		1908–1910	[41]
Frederick Gillmore	Democratic	1910–1912	[41]
Frank J. Baker	Republican	1912–1914	[41]
James D. Smith		1914–1920	[41]
James K. O'Connor	Democratic	1920–1922	[41]
Fred J. Douglas	Republican	1922–1924	[41]
Frederick Gillmore	Democratic	1924–1928	[41]
Fred J. Rath	Republican	1928–1930	[41]
Charles S. Donnelley	Democratic	1930–1934	[41]
Samuel Sloan	Republican	1934–1936	[41]
Vincent R. Corrou	Democratic	1936–1944	[41]
J. Bradley German Jr.	Republican	1944–1946	[41]
Boyd Golder	Democratic	1946–1956	[41]
John T. McKennan	Democratic	1956–1959	[41]
Frank M. Dulan	Republican	1959–1968	[41]
Dominick Assaro	Democratic	1968–1972	[41]
Michael Caruso	Republican	1972–1974	[41]
Edward A. Hanna	Independent	1974–1978	[41]
Stephen J. Pawlinga	Democratic	1978–1984	[41]
Louis D. LaPolla	Republican	1984–1996	[41]
Edward A. Hanna	Independent	1996–2000	[41]
Timothy J. Julian	Republican	2000–2008	[41]
David R. Roefaro	Democratic	2008–2012	[41]
Robert M. Palmieri	Democratic	2012–2024	[41]
Michael P. Galime	Republican	2024–present	[42]

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