List of mayors of Buffalo, New York

Number of Mayors of Buffalo by party affiliation

Party	Mayors
Democratic	29
Democratic-Republican	2
Republican	15
Whig	12
No Party	4

List of mayors

#	Name	Picture	Party	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Ebenezer Johnson		Democratic-Republican	May 1832	March 1833
2	Major Andre Andrews			1833	1834
3	Ebenezer Johnson		Democratic-Republican	1834	1835
4	Hiram Pratt		Whig	1835	1836
5	Samuel Wilkeson			1836	1837
6	Josiah Trowbridge		Whig	March 14, 1837	December 21, 1837
7	Pierre A. Barker			1837	1838
8	Ebenezer Walden		Whig	March 13, 1838	1839
9	Hiram Pratt		Whig	1839	1840
10	Sheldon Thompson		Whig	1840	March 2, 1841
11	Isaac R. Harrington		Whig	March 2, 1841	March 8, 1842
12	George William Clinton			1842	1843
13	Joseph G. Masten		Democratic	1843	1844
14	William Ketchum		Whig	1844	1845
15	Joseph G. Masten		Democratic	1845	1846
16	Solomon G. Haven		Whig	1846	1847
17	Elbridge G. Spaulding		Whig	1847	1848
18	Orlando Allen		Whig	1848	1849
19	Hiram Barton		Whig	1849	1850
20	Henry K. Smith		Democratic	1850	1851
21	James Wadsworth		Democratic	1851	1852
22	Hiram Barton		Whig	1852	1853
23	Eli Cook		Democratic	1853	1855
24	Frederick P. Stevens		Democratic	1856	1857
25	Timothy T. Lockwood		Democratic	1858	1859
26	Franklin A. Alberger		Republican	1860	1861
27	William G. Fargo		Democratic	1862	1865
28	Chandler J. Wells		Republican	1866	1867
29	William F. Rogers		Democratic	1868	1869
30	Alexander Brush		Republican	1870	1873
31	Lewis P. Dayton		Democratic	1874	1875
32	Philip Becker		Republican	1876	1877
33	Solomon Scheu		Democratic	1878	1879
34	Alexander Brush		Republican	1880	1881
35	Grover Cleveland		Democratic	January 2, 1882	November 20, 1882
36	Marcus M. Drake		Republican	November 20, 1882	December 29, 1882
37	Harmon S. Cutting		Democratic	December 29, 1882	January 16, 1883
38	John B. Manning		Democratic	January 16, 1883	1884
39	Jonathan Scoville		Democratic	1884	1885
40	Philip Becker		Republican	1886	1889
41	Charles F. Bishop		Democratic	1890	1894
42	Edgar B. Jewett		Republican	1895	1897
43	Conrad Diehl		Democratic	1898	1901
44	Erastus C. Knight		Republican	1902	1905
45	James N. Adam		Democratic	1906	1909
46	Louis P. Fuhrmann		Democratic	1910	1917
47	George S. Buck		Republican	1918	1921
48	Frank X. Schwab		Republican	1922	1929
49	Charles E. Roesch		Republican	1930	1933
50	George J. Zimmermann		Democratic	1934	1937
51	Thomas L. Holling		Democratic	1938	1941
52	Joseph J. Kelly		Democratic	1942	1945
53	Bernard J. Dowd		Republican	1946	1949
54	Joseph Mruk		Republican	1950	1953
55	Steven Pankow		Democratic	1954	1957
56	Frank A. Sedita		Democratic	1958	1961
57	Chester A. Kowal		Republican	1962	1965
58	Frank A. Sedita		Democratic	1966	1973
59	Stanley M. Makowski		Democratic	1973	1977
60	James D. Griffin		Democratic	January 1, 1978	January 1, 1994
61	Anthony Masiello		Democratic	January 1, 1994	January 1, 2006
62	Byron Brown		Democratic	January 1, 2006	Present

Mayoral Elections

(winners are in bold)

Date	Candidates
November 8, 1881	John B. Manning	Robert R. Hefford
	11,036	7,321
January 9, 1883	Grover Cleveland	Milton Beebe
	15,120	11,528
November 6, 1973	Stanley M. Makowski	Stewart M. Levy	John A. Westra	Patrick W. Giagnacova	Ira Liebowitz
	77,569	24,423	2,640	1,147	597
November 2, 1993	Anthony Masiello	Richard A. Grimm	Eugene Fahey
	36,092	9,277	7,566
November 8, 2005	Byron Brown	Kevin Helfer
	64%	27%