Ronald A. Stott (March 4, 1938 – March 29, 2014) was an American businessman and politician.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Stott served in the United States Marine Corps. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Arizona and was one of the founders of Datacom Systems Inc. in East Syracuse, New York and was an engineer for General Electric. Stott served as Mayor of North Syracuse, New York from 1971 to 1974. He also served as a county legislator in Onondaga County, New York. Stott served in the New York Assembly, in 1975, as a Democrat. [1] [2]
Buffalo is the second largest city in the U.S. state of New York and the largest city in Western New York. As of July 2016, the population was 256,902. The city is the county seat of Erie County and a major gateway for commerce and travel across the Canada–United States border, forming part of the bi-national Buffalo Niagara Region.
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or U.S. Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations with the United States Navy as well as the Army and Air Force. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the four armed service branches in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. As of 2017, the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix and the James E. Rogers College of Law, and is affiliated with two academic medical centers. The University of Arizona is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents. The University of Arizona is one of the elected members of the Association of American Universities and is the only representative from the state of Arizona to this group.
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers.
Tipperary Hill, also known as Tipp Hill, is a district in the city of Syracuse, New York, largely settled by immigrants from Ireland, especially from County Tipperary. It makes up half of Syracuse's Far Westside neighborhood.
Matthew John Driscoll is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation from 2015 until 2017. He served as the 52nd Mayor of Syracuse, New York from July 10, 2001, until December 31, 2009.
William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State.
Edward Schoeneck was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1915 to 1918.
Ronald J. "Ron" Canestrari is an American politician and former Democratic member of the New York State Assembly.
Elias Warner Leavenworth was an American lawyer and politician.
Horace Wheaton was a United States Representative from New York from 1843 to 1847.
Dennis McCarthy was an American manufacturer and politician from New York.
James Jerome Belden was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.
Joanne M. "Joanie" Mahoney is the Chief Operating Officer at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York. Previously, she was County Executive of Onondaga County, New York. The first woman to hold, and to be elected to, that position, she served from January 1, 2008, through November 1, 2018.
Thomas McCarthy was nominated as the first Mayor of Syracuse, New York in January 1848 and was veteran of the War of 1812. He was an influential citizen in early Onondaga County, New York and the father of Congressman Dennis McCarthy. He died days before receiving word he was nominated to be the first Mayor of Syracuse and thus never served.
Theodore E. Hancock was an American lawyer and politician. He was New York Attorney General from 1894 to 1898.
Stephanie Ann Miner is an American attorney, politician, and former Mayor of Syracuse, New York. Miner served as Mayor of Syracuse from 2010 to 2018, and is the first woman to have held that office. Prior to her mayoralty, she was a member of the Syracuse City Council. Miner co-chaired the New York State Democratic Party from 2012 to 2014. In 2018, Miner ran unsuccessfully for Governor of New York on the newly-created Serve America Movement line.
Lee Alexander was an American politician who served as the mayor of Syracuse, New York for 16 years.
Clinton Square, in downtown Syracuse, New York, was the original town center and first came into existence in the early 19th century where roadways from north and south convened. By 1825, the construction of the Erie Canal further transformed the busy intersection into the center of commerce and trade in Central New York.
Charles Adams Stott was a Massachusetts businessman who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives; and as a member of the Common Council, Board of Aldermen, and the twenty-fourth mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Francis Hendricks was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York.
Ben Walsh is the 54th and current Mayor of Syracuse, New York. Walsh took office on January 1, 2018 as the first independent mayor in the city's history and the second without major party support after Louis Will in 1913. He is the son of former congressman James T. Walsh and grandson of former congressman and mayor William F. Walsh both of which were Republicans.
The 2017 mayoral election in Syracuse, New York was held on November 7, 2017, and resulted in the election of Ben Walsh, an independent, to his first term as mayor.
