- List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut
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This is a list of the Mayors of New Haven, Connecticut.
Before 1826, the city's mayors did not have a fixed term of office; once elected, they held office indefinitely, at the pleasure of the Connecticut General Assembly. Beginning in 1826 the mayor and members of the Common Council were elected an annual town meeting and held office until the following year's town meeting. Since the 1870s, New Haven's mayors have been elected to two-year terms.[1]
Years
servedName Party Lived Notes 1784-1793 Roger Sherman Federalist 1721-1793 Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later became a U.S. Senator. 1793-1803 Samuel Bishop Democrat-Republican Also probate judge 1803-1822 Elizur Goodrich Federalist 1761-1849 Professor of law. Also served as a U.S. Congressman. New Haven's longest-serving mayor (19 years). 1822-1826 George Hoadley Democrat-Republican/Jacksonian Democrat 1781-1857 Bank president. Later became mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1846-1847). 1826-1827 Simeon Baldwin Federalist 1761-1851 A judge. Was previously a U.S. Congressman. 1827-1828 William Bristol Democrat-Republican 1779-1836 Also State Senator 1828-1830 David Daggett Federalist 1764-1851 Also U.S. Senator; CT House Speaker; Chief Justice of the CT Supreme Court 1830-1831 Ralph Ingersoll Democrat Also U.S. Congressman 1831-1832 Dennis Kimberly Democrat 1790-1862 Lawyer. Also major general and member of Connecticut General Assembly. Was elected mayor again in 1833, but declined the office. Was chosen U.S. Senator in 1838.[2] 1832-1833 Ebenezer Seeley Democrat 1833-1834 Noyes Darling Whig Judge 1834-1839 H. C. Flagg Whig Lawyer, editor 1839-1842 S. J. Hitchcock Whig Lawyer, law teacher 1842-1846 Philip S. Galpin Whig Businessman (carpet manufacturing and insurance) 1846-1850 Henry E. Peck Whig 1795-1867 1850-1854 A. N. Skinner Whig Classical boarding school headmaster 1851 Ralph I. Ingersoll 1789-1872 [3] 1854-1855 Chauncey Jerome Whig Clock manufacturer 1856-1860 Philip S. Galpin Whig Secretary of Mutual Security Insurance Company 1860-1863 Harmanus M. Welch Democrat 1813-1889 Businessman who was founder and president of the New Haven Rolling Mill and president of the First National Bank. 1867–1869 Lucien W. Sperry 1820-? carpenter and merchant 1877 William P. Chelton About 1821-1892 1878 Hobart B. Bigelow 1834-1891 Businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co. 1879 William P. Chelton About 1821-1892 1887-1888 Samuel A. York 1889-1890 Henry F. Peck 1891-1894 Joseph B. Sargent Democrat 1822-1907 Served three terms. Was the founder of Sargent & Co. 1895-1896 Albert C. Hendrick 1899-1901 Cornelius T. Driscoll About 1845-1931 1905 John Payne Studley About 1846-1931 1910-1917 Frank J. Rice Republican 1869-1917 Elected to four terms. Died in office. 1917 Samuel Campner 1918-1922 David E. FitzGerald 1928 John B. Tower 1929-1931 Thomas A. Tully 1932-1935 John W. Murphy Democrat Labor leader 1940-1941 John W. Murphy Democrat 1945-1953 William C. Celentano Republican Served eight years. Was the first Italian-American mayor of New Haven. Funeral director. 1954-1970 Richard C. Lee Democrat 1916-2003 Served eight terms. Was New Haven's youngest mayor. 1970-1975 Bartholomew F. Guida Democrat 1914-1978 1976-1979 Frank Logue Democrat 1924-2010 Logue served two two-year terms as the city’s chief executive. He won the office in the 1975 election, defeating incumbent Democratic Mayor Bart Guida in a party primary. Logue ran as the standard bearer of liberal reformers looking to topple the party machine overseen by Guida’s patron, the late party Chairman Arthur Barbieri. It was a heady campaign; key workers included future Congresswoman, Rosa DeLauro; presidential adviser, Stan Greenberg; and state judge, Thayer Baldwin. Once in office, Logue had the luck of presiding over the city during a period of national urban decline. Employers, retailers, and middle-class families finished a suburban exodus from New Haven that began during the heady “Model City” urban renewal period that saw a record amount of federal and foundation dollars pour into the city, only to leave it poorer. In the late 1970s, much of downtown was boarded up and a general malaise had settled over the city.
Logue was an early advocate of historic preservation, an antidote to the destruction of so much of the city’s landscape during urban renewal. Logue also believed the arts could help revitalize the city. He came up with the original idea of reviving the Shubert theater as part of a downtown arts renaissance, an idea his successor put into action along with an emphasis on preservation. Logue started the process of reviving downtown with the rehabilitation of the old Taft Hotel.
Logue also helped push the state to create the PILOT (payments in lieu of taxes) program for cities.
1980-1989 Biagio DiLieto Democrat 1922-1999 Served five terms. Former police chief. 1990–1993 John Daniels Democrat First black mayor of New Haven. From 1994 John DeStefano, Jr. Democrat born 1955 References
- Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300000510, ISBN 978-0300000511. Table 2.1, The Mayors of New Haven, 1784-1960 (pages 12-14).
Notes
- ^ Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300000510, ISBN 978-0300000511. Page 12.
- ^ Dennis Kimberly, Memorials of Connecticut Judges and Attorneys as printed in the Connecticut Reports volume 30, page(s) 605-607. Connecticut State Library website, accessed August 3, 2010.
- ^ Not in Dahl's list for this date. This date comes from INGERSOLL, Ralph Isaacs, (1789 - 1872) at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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