List of mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania | |
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Inaugural holder | Elliott S. M. Hill |
Formation | 1866 |
The mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of
Democrat Paige Cognetti
.
From 1866, mayors were elected by popular vote.
List of mayors of Scranton
Mayor | Term | Political party |
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Elliot S.M. Hill | 1866–1869 | Democrat |
William N. Monies | 1869–1872 | Republican |
Mathew W. Loftus | 1872–1875 | Democrat |
Robert H. McKune | 1875–1878 | Democrat |
Terence Vincent Powderly | 1878-1884 | Greenback-Labor Party |
Francis Allen Beamish | 1884–1886 | |
Ezra H. Ripple | 1886–1890 | Republican |
John H. Fellows | 1890–1893 | |
William Lawrence Connell | 1893–1896 | |
James G. Bailey | 1896–1899 | |
James Moir | 1899–1901 | Republican |
William Lawrence Connell | 1901–1903 | Republican |
Alex T. Connell | 1903–1906 | |
J. Benjamin Dimmick | 1906–1909 | Republican |
John Von Bergen Jr. | 1909–1914 | Republican |
Edmund B. Jermyn | 1914–1918 | |
Alex T. Connell | 1918–1922 | |
John F. Durkan | 1922–1926 | |
Edmund B. Jermyn | 1926–1930 | |
Fred K. Derby | 1930–1934 | |
Stanley J. Davis | 1934–1938 | |
Fred J. Huester | 1938–1942 | |
Howard J. Snowdon | 1942–1946 | |
James Thomas Hanlon | 1946–1962 | Democrat |
William T. Schmidt | 1962–1966 | Republican |
James J. Walsh | 1966–1970 | Democrat |
Eugene J. Peters | 1970–1978 | Republican |
Eugene F. Hickey | 1978–1982 | Democrat |
James Barrett McNulty | 1982–1986 | Democrat |
David J. Wenzel | 1986–1990 | Republican |
Jim Connors |
1990–2002 | Republican (1990–2000) Democrat (2000–2002) |
Christopher Doherty | 2002–2014 | Democrat |
Bill Courtright | 2014—2019 | Democrat |
Pat Rogan (acting) | 2019 | Democrat |
Wayne Evans (acting) | 2019 - 2020 | Republican |
Paige Cognetti | 2020 - present | Independent (2020-2021) Democrat (2021-Present) |
References
- Sources
- [1] Wenzel, David J. (2006). Scranton's Mayors. Eynon,PA: Tribute Books. ISBN 09765072-6-9