Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania | |
---|---|
Formation | Peter Filbert |
The Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, is the elected, chief executive of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, the fourth-largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. The Reading city government consists of a mayor and a city council. The mayor is elected for a four-year term.
The Mayor of Reading served under a city commission form of government prior to 1996. However, the city's mayor have served under a home rule form of government since 1996, beginning with the inauguration of Mayor Paul Angstadt in January of that year. [1]
Reading is one of the few United States cities to have elected a Socialist mayor. Three times, in 1927, 1935, and 1944, J. Henry Stump was elected mayor. [2]
The current mayor is Eddie Moran, who was elected on November 5, 2019 and began serving his term on January 6, 2020. [3]
Mayor | Term Begins | Term Ends | Political Party |
---|---|---|---|
Peter Filbert [4] | 1847 | 1848 | |
William H. Keim | 1848 | 1849 | Whig |
George Getz [4] | 1849 | 1853 | |
George M. Keim | 1853 | 1853 | Democratic |
Daniel R. Clymer [4] | 1853 | 1854 | |
John S. Richards [4] | 1854 | 1855 | |
William M. Baird [4] | 1855 | 1856 | |
Joel B. Wanner [4] | 1856 | 1857 | |
A. Jordan Swartz [4] | 1857 | 1858 | |
Benneville Keim [4] | 1858 | 1861 | |
Joel B. Wanner [4] | 1861 | 1863 | |
Joseph S. Hoyer [4] | 1863 | 1865 | |
Nathan M. Eisenhower [4] | 1865 | 1867 | |
William H. Gernand [4] | 1867 | 1871 | |
Samuel C. Mayer [4] | 1871 | 1873 | |
Charles F. Evans [4] | 1873 | 1879 | |
Henry A. Tyson [4] | 1879 | 1881 | |
William G. Rowe [4] | 1881 | 1885 | |
James K. Getz [4] | 1885 | 1887 | |
James R. Kenney [4] | 1887 | 1891 | |
Thomas P. Merritt [4] | 1891 | 1893 | Democratic |
William F. Shanaman [4] | 1893 | 1896 | |
Jacob Weidel [4] | 1896 | 1899 | |
Adam H. Leader [4] | 1899 | 1902 | |
Edward Yeager [4] | 1902 | 1905 | |
Edwin R. Gerber [4] | 1905 | 1908 | |
William Rick [4] | 1908 | 1912 | |
Ira W. Stratton [4] | 1912 | 1916 | |
Edward H. Filbert [4] | 1916 | 1920 | |
John K. Stauffer [4] | 1920 | 1924 | |
William E. Sharman [4] | 1924 | 1928 | |
J. Henry Stump | 1928 | 1932 | Socialist |
Heber Ermentrout [4] | 1932 | 1936 | Democratic - Republican fusion |
J. Henry Stump | 1936 | 1940 | Socialist |
Harry F. Menges | 1940 | 1944 | |
J. Henry Stump | 1944 | 1948 | SDF |
John F. Davis | 1948 | 1952 | Democratic |
James B. Bamford [4] | 1952 | 1956 | Republican |
Daniel F. McDevitt [4] | 1956 | 1960 | Democratic |
John C. Kubacki [4] | 1960 | 1964 | Democratic |
Eugene Shirk [1] | 1964 | 1968 | Republican |
Victor Yarnell [5] | 1968 [5] | 1972 [5] | Democratic |
Eugene Shirk [1] | 1972 | 1976 | Republican |
Joseph P. Kuzminski [1] | 1976 | 1980 | Democratic |
Karen A. Miller [1] | 1980 | February 1987 [6] | Democratic |
Warren Haggerty [1] | February 1987 [6] | January 1, 1996 | Democratic |
Paul Angstadt [1] | January 1, 1996 [7] | January 3, 2000 [8] | Republican |
Joseph Eppihimer [1] | January 3, 2000 [8] | January 5, 2004 | Democratic |
Tom McMahon [1] | January 5, 2004 | January 2, 2012 | Democratic |
Vaughn Spencer | January 2, 2012 | January 4, 2016 | Democratic |
Wally Scott | January 4, 2016 | January 6, 2020 | Democratic |
Eddie Moran [3] | January 6, 2020 | Democratic | |
The politics of Bulgaria take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the prime minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Edward Gene Rendell is an American lawyer, prosecutor, politician, and author who served as the 45th governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011. He served as chair of the national Democratic Party from 1999 to 2001, as the 96th mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000, and as district attorney of Philadelphia from 1978 to 1986.
Joseph Sill Clark Jr. was an American writer, lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1969. Clark was the only Unitarian Universalist elected to a major office in Pennsylvania in the modern era.
The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of the City of Wellington. The mayor presides over the Wellington City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation. The current mayor is Tory Whanau, elected in October 2022 for a three-year-term.
The mayor of the City of San Diego is the official head and chief executive officer of the U.S. city of San Diego, California. The mayor has the duty to enforce and execute the laws enacted by the San Diego City Council, the legislative branch. The mayor serves a four-year term and is limited to two successive terms.
The Colombo Municipal Council is the municipal governing body of Colombo, the largest city and financial centre in Sri Lanka. It consists of a directly elected executive Mayor of Colombo, and elected 119 municipal councilors. The council was formed in 1865, it first met in 1866 and derives most of its powers from Municipal Council Ordinance No. 29 of 1947.
William Mark Peduto is an American politician who was the 60th mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 2014 until 2022. He was a Democratic member of the Pittsburgh City Council from 2002 to 2014.
The Mayor of Limerick is the head of the local government of the City and County of Limerick. It is a directly elected office with a five-year term. Following the 2024 Limerick mayoral election, John Moran was inaugurated as the first office-holder on 21 June 2024.
The politics of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas are complex and constantly shifting in part because the city is one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States and is the largest without zoning laws. Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837. The city is the county seat of Harris County. A portion of southwest Houston extends into Fort Bend County and a small portion in the northeast extends into Montgomery County.
Sewer socialism was an originally pejorative term for the American socialist movement that centered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from around 1892 to 1960. The term was coined by Morris Hillquit at the 1932 Milwaukee convention of the Socialist Party of America as a commentary on the Milwaukee socialists and their perpetual boasting about the excellent public sewer system in the city.
Paul J. Angstadt was an American politician and member of the Republican who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992.
The San Diego City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of San Diego, California. The city council was first established in San Diego in 1850. The council uses a strong mayor system with a separately elected mayor who acts as the executive. There are currently nine members of the council. City council members serve a four-year term and are limited to two successive terms.
Local elections were held in Serbia over two rounds on 3 November and 17 November 1996, concurrently with the 1996 Vojvodina provincial election; the first day of voting also coincided with the 1996 Yugoslavian parliamentary election and the 1996 Montenegrin parliamentary election. This was the third local electoral cycle held while Serbia was a member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the last time that Serbia oversaw local elections throughout Kosovo and Metohija until its controversial decision to hold elections in 2008.
Local elections in Serbia were held on 6 May 2012. Pursuant to the Constitution of Serbia, the parliamentary Speaker signed on 13 March 2012 the Decision on calling the elections for councilors of municipal assemblies, town assemblies and the Belgrade City Assembly for 6 May 2012, with the exception of: the councilors of the municipal assemblies of Aranđelovac, Bor, Vrbas, Vrnjačka Banja, Knjaževac, Kovin, Kosjerić, Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavić, Negotin, Novo Brdo, Odžaci, Peć, Prijepolje and Ruma and councilors of the Priština Town Assembly, which have already had extraordinary elections in the period from 2008 to 2012, while for councilors of the municipal assembly of Kula, the elections were already called earlier on 29 February 2012.
L. Birch Wilson Jr. (1883–1974) was an American political activist, newspaper editor, and civic employee. Wilson is best remembered as a member of the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America during the 1920s and the éminence grise behind the Socialist mayoral administration of J. Henry Stump in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania as well as the editor of the Reading weekly newspaper, The Labor Advocate. His wife, Lillith M. Wilson (1887–1937), was a three term member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly during the decade of the 1930s.
The following table lists the individuals who served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, their political party affiliations, and their dates in office, as well as other information.
The Socialist Party of Pennsylvania was a socialist political party in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania and received a state charter from the Socialist Party of America the following year. Reading was one of three cities which found considerable electoral success. Readings Socialists elected multiple state legislators, city councilors as well as mayor J. Henry Stump. The Socialist Party of America nominated former Pennsylvania Representative and SPA member Darlington Hoopes for President in 1952 and 1956. In 1965, the Reading chapter of the party was down to approximately 25 members. The national party was renamed Social Democrats, USA in 1972.
In the Chicago mayoral election of 1879, Democrat Carter Harrison Sr. defeated both Republican Abner Wright and socialist Ernst Schmidt in a three-way race. Harrison had a nearly nine point margin of victory.