| Mayor of Syracuse | |
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 Flag of the City of Syracuse | |
| Style | The Honorable |
| Term length | Four years; limited to two terms |
| Inaugural holder | Harvey Baldwin |
| Formation | 1848 |
| Salary | $115,000 (2019) |
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This is a complete list of mayors of Syracuse, New York.
| # | Name | Term | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Harvey Baldwin (D) | 1848 | |
| 2. | Elias W. Leavenworth (W) | 1849 | |
| 3. | Alfred H. Hovey (D) | 1850 | |
| 4. | Horace Wheaton (D) | 1851 | |
| 5. | Jason Cooper Woodruff (D) | 1852 | |
| 6. | Dennis McCarthy (D) | 1853 | |
| 7. | Allen Munroe (W) | 1854 | |
| 8. | Lyman Stevens (D) | 1855 | |
| 9. | Charles Ferre Williston (D) | 1856–1857 | |
| 10. | William Winton (D) | 1858 | |
| 11. | Elias W. Leavenworth (R) | 1859 | |
| 12. | Amos Westcott (R) | 1860 | |
| 13. | Charles Andrews (R) | 1861–1862 | |
| 14. | Daniel Bookstaver (D) | 1863 | |
| 15. | Archibald Campbell Powell (R) | 1864 | |
| 16. | William Davenport Stewart (D) | 1865–1867 | |
| 17. | Charles Andrews (R) | 1868 | |
| 18. | Charles Parsons Clark (R) | 1869–1870 | |
| 19. | Francis Edward Carroll (D) | 1871–1872 | |
| 20. | William James Wallace (R) | 1873 | |
| 21. | Nathan Fitch Graves (D) | 1874 | |
| 22. | George Philip Hier (R) | 1875 | |
| 23. | John J. Crouse (R) | 1876 | |
| 24. | James Jerome Belden (R) | 1877–1878 | |
| 25. | Irving Goodwin Vann (R) | 1879 | |
| 26. | Francis Hendricks (R) | 1880–1881 | |
| 27. | John Demong (D) | 1882 | |
| 28. | Thomas Ryan (D) | 1883–1885 | |
| 29. | Willis B. Burns (R) | 1886–1887 | First to serve two-year term |
| 30. | William Burns Kirk III (D) | 1888–1889 | |
| 31. | William Cowie (R) | 1890–1891 | |
| 32. | Jacob Amos (R) | 1892–1895 | |
| 33. | James Kennedy McGuire (D) | 1896–1901 [1] | |
| 34. | Jay Butler Kline (R) | 1902–1903 | |
| 35. | Alan Cutler Fobes (R) | 1904–1909 [2] | |
| 36. | Edward Schoeneck (R) | 1910–1913 | |
| 37. | Louis Will (Progressive) | 1914–1916 | |
| 38. | Walter Robinson Stone (R) | 1916–1919 | |
| 39. | Harry Haile Farmer (R) | 1920–1921 | |
| 40. | John Henry Walrath (D) | 1922–1925 | |
| 41. | Charles George Hanna (R) | 1926–1929 | |
| 42. | Rolland Bristol Marvin (R) | 1930–1941 | |
| 43. | Thomas Edward Kennedy (R) | 1942–1945 | |
| 44. | Frank James Costello (R) | 1946–1949 | |
| 45. | Thomas Joseph Corcoran (D) | 1950–1953 | |
| 46. | Donald Howe Mead (R) | 1954–1957 | |
| 47. | Anthony Aloysius Henninger (R) | 1958–1961 | |
| 48. | William Francis Walsh (R) | 1962–1969 | |
| 49. | Lee Alexander (D) | 1970–1985 | |
| 50. | Thomas Ganley Young (D) | 1986–1993 | Two-term limits for office of mayor were put into place |
| 51. | Roy Albert Bernardi (R) | 1994–2001 | Left office a few months early for a federal job at Department of Housing and Urban Development [3] |
| 52. | Matthew John Driscoll (D) | 2001–2009 | |
| 53. | Stephanie A. Miner (D) | 2010–2017 [4] | First female mayor of Syracuse |
| 54. | Ben Walsh (I) | 2018–present | First independent mayor of Syracuse |
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