List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut
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This is a list of the Mayors of New Haven, Connecticut.
| Years served |
Name | Party | Lived | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1784-1793 | Roger Sherman | Federalist | 1721-1793 | Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Later U.S. Senator |
| 1793-1803 | Samuel Bishop | Democrat-Republican | Also Probate Judge | |
| 1803-1822 | Elizur Goodrich | Federalist | (1761-1849) | Also U.S. Congressman; Longest-Serving Mayor (19 years) |
| 1822-1826 | George Hoadly | Democrat-Republican/Jacksonian Democrat | (1781-1857) | mayor of Cleveland in 1846 and 1847 |
| 1826-1827 | Simeon Baldwin | John Quincy Adams supporter | (1761-1851) | Previously U.S. Congressman |
| 1827-1828 | William Bristol | Jacksonian Democrat | (1779-1836) | Also State Senator |
| 1828-1830 | David Daggett | John Quincy Adams supporter/Anti-Jacksonian | (1764-1851) | Also U.S. Senator; CT House Speaker; Chief Justice of the CT Supreme Court |
| 1832-1833 | Ebenezer Seeley | |||
| 1845 | Philip S. Galpin | |||
| 1846-1850 | Henry E. Peck | 1795-1867 | ||
| 1851 | Ralph I. Ingersoll | |||
| 1860-1863 | Harmanus M. Welch | (1813-1889) | ||
| 1867–1869 | Lucien W. Sperry | (1820-?) | carpenter and merchant | |
| 1877 | William P. Chelton | abt 1821-1892 | ||
| 1878 | Hobart B. Bigelow | (1834-1891) | businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co. | |
| 1879 | William P. Chelton | abt 1821-1892 | ||
| 1887-1888 | Samuel A. York | |||
| 1889-1890 | Henry F. Peck | |||
| 1891-1894 | Joseph B. Sargent | (1822-1907) | ||
| 1895-1896 | Albert C. Hendrick | |||
| 1899-1901 | Cornelius T. Driscoll | abt 1845-1931 | ||
| 1905 | John Payne Studley | abt 1846-1931 | ||
| 1910-1917 | Frank J. Rice | (1869-1917) | 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 | labor leader | ||
| 1940-1941 | John W. Murphy | |||
| 1945-1953 | William C. Celentano | served eight years, funeral director | ||
| 1954-1970 | Richard C. Lee | (1916-2003) | eight terms, New Haven's youngest mayor | |
| 1970-1975 | Bartholomew F. Guida | Democrat | (1914-1978) | |
| 1976-1979 | Frank Logue | Democrat | (born 1924) | |
| 1980-1989 | Biagio DiLieto | Democrat | (1922-1999) | five terms, former police chief |
| 1990–1993 | John Daniels | Democrat | first black mayor of New Haven | |
| From 1994 | John DeStefano, Jr. | Democrat | (born 1955) |
- Source: Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City By Robert Alan Dahl, (Table 2.1, The Mayors of New Haven, 1784-1960)
