List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut
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.

List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut

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Table Section Text: 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.

Years served	Name	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	Democratic-Republican	1723–1803	Also probate judge

1803–1822	Elizur Goodrich	Federalist	1761–1849	Professor of law. Also served as a U.S. Congressman.

1822–1826	George Hoadley	Democratic-Republican	1781–1857	Bank president. Later became Mayor of Cleveland (1846–1847).

1826–1827	Simeon Baldwin	Federalist	1761–1851	Judge. Was previously a U.S. Congressman.

1827–1828	William Bristol	Democratic-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	1789-1872	Also U.S. Congressman

1831–1832	Dennis Kimberly	Democrat	1790–1862	Lawyer. Also major general and member of Connecticut General Assembly.

1832–1833	Ebenezer Seeley	Democrat	1793–1866

1833–1834	Noyes Darling	Whig	1782–1846	Judge. (Dennis Kimberly had been elected to fill this term, but declined to serve.)

1834–1839	Henry Collins Flagg	Whig	1792–1863	Lawyer, editor

1839–1842	Samuel Johnson Hitchcock	Whig	1786–1845	Lawyer, president of Yale Law School

1842–1845	Philip S. Galpin	Whig	1796–1872	Businessman (carpet manufacturing and insurance)

1846–1850	Henry E. Peck	Whig	1795–1867	Newspaper printer and publisher.

1850–1854	Aaron N. Skinner	Whig	1800–1858	Classical boarding school headmaster

1854–1855	Chauncey Jerome	Whig	1793–1868	Clock manufacturer

1855-1856	Alfred Blackman	Democrat	1807-1880

1856–1860	Philip S. Galpin	Whig	1796–1872	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.

1863-1865	Morris Tyler	Republican	1806–1876

1865–1866	Erastus C. Scranton	Republican	1808–1866

1866–1869	Lucien Wells Sperry	Democrat	1820−1890	Carpenter and merchant; committed suicide after embezzling trust funds; died $50,000 in debt.

1869-1870	William Fitch	Republican	1820-1877

1870-1877	Henry G. Lewis	Democrat	1820-1891

1877-1879	William R. Shelton	Democrat	1821-1892	Prosecuted by Republicans (as a Democratic ex-mayor) for his involvement in a scandal with a female employee

1879-1881	Hobart B. Bigelow	Republican	1834–1891	Businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co.

1881-1883	John Brownlee Robertson	Democrat	1809-1892

1883-1885	Henry G. Lewis	Democrat	1820-1891

1885-1887	George F. Holcomb	Democrat

1887–1888	Samuel Amos York	Democrat	1839-1898

1889–1890	Henry Franklin Peck	Republican	1828-1911

1891–1894	Joseph B. Sargent	Democrat	1822–1907	Served three terms. Founder of Sargent & Co.

1895–1896	Albert C. Hendrick	Republican	1833-1912	ex-chief of the New Haven Fire Department

1897–1899	Frederick Benjamin Farnsworth	Republican	1851-1930	Presided over the enactment of a new city charter, which gave New Haven a unified administrative structure. Interred in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven

1899–1901	Cornelius Thomas Driscoll	Democrat	1845–1931	born in Ireland, he was New Haven's first immigrant mayor

1901-1909	John Payne Studley	Republican	1846–1931	Used the police to stop performances of Bernard Shaw's play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession". Interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT

1910–1917	Frank J. Rice	Republican	1869–1917	Elected to four terms. Died in office.

1917	Samuel Campner	Republican	1887-1934	New Haven's first Jewish mayor

1918–1926	David E. FitzGerald	Democrat	1874-1942

1926-1928	John B. Tower	Republican

1929–1931	Thomas A. Tully	Republican	1886-1950

1932–1944	John W. Murphy	Democrat	1878–1964	Labor leader

1945–1953	William C. Celentano	Republican	1904-1972	Served eight years. 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	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.

1980–1989	Biagio "Ben" DiLieto	Democrat	1922–1999	Served five terms. Former police chief.

1990–1993	John C. Daniels	Democrat	1936–2015	First black mayor of New Haven.

1994–2013	John DeStefano, Jr.	Democrat	born 1955	New Haven's longest-serving mayor.

2014–present	Toni Harp	Democrat	born 1949	First woman elected mayor of New Haven.

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In 1784, Roger Sherman was the Mayor of New Haven, until his death in 1793.

final_sentence: In 1784, Roger Sherman was the Mayor of New Haven, until his death in 1793.