List of mayors of Trenton, New Jersey

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List of mayors

# Image Mayor Term in office Length of service Party affiliation Previous office
1 Moore Furman[1]
(1728–1808) 		1792
–
1794
 2 years   [data missing]
Deputy Quartermaster-General
and Forage Master of New Jersey
2 Aaron Woodruff[1]
(1762–1817; aged 54) 		1794
–
1797
 3 years   Federalist
Attorney General of New Jersey
3 James Ewing[1]
(1744–1823) 		1797
–
1803
 6 years [data missing] New Jersey
Assemblyman
4 Joshua Wright[1] 1803
–
1806
 3 years [data missing] [data missing]
5 Stacy Potts[1] 1806
–
1814
 8 years [data missing] [data missing]
6 Robert McNealy[1] 1814
–
1832
 18 years [data missing] [data missing]
7 Charles Burroughs[1] 1832
–
1847
 15 years [data missing] [data missing]
8 Samuel R. Hamilton[1] 1847
–
1849
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
9 William C. Howell[1] 1849
–
1850
 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
10 William Napton[1] 1850
–
1852
 2 years [data missing] New Jersey
Assemblyman
11 John R. Tucker[1] 1852
–
1854
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
12 William Napton[1] 1854
–
1855
 1 year [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
13 William P. Sherman[1] 1855
–
1855
 under 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
14 John R. Tucker[1] 1855
–
1856
 1 year [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
15 Joseph Wood[1] 1856
–
1859
 3 years   Democratic [data missing]
16 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1859
–
1861
 2 years [data missing] New Jersey
Assemblyman
17 William R. McKean[1] 1861
–
1863
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
18 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1863
–
1867
 4 years [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
19 Alfred Reed[1]
(1839–1918) 		1867
–
1868
 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
20 William Napton[1] 1868
–
1871
 3 years [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
21 John Briest[1] 1871
–
1875
 4 years [data missing] [data missing]
22 Wesley Creveling[1] 1875
–
1877
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
23 Daniel R. Bodine[1] 1877
–
1879
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
24 William Rice[1] 1879
–
1881
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
25 Garrett D. W. Vroom[1]
(b. 1843) 		1881
–
1884
 3 years   Democratic [data missing]
26 Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly[2]
(1841–1905; aged 63) 		1884
–
1886
 2 years   Democratic New Jersey
Assemblyman
27 John Woolverton[1] 1886
–
1887
 1 year   [data missing] Former New Jersey
Senator
28 Frank A. Magowan[1] 1887
–
1889
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
29 Anthony A. Skirm[1] 1889
–
1891
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
30 Daniel J. Bechtel[1] 1891
–
1893 		2 years   Democratic [data missing]
31 Joseph B. Shaw[1] 1893
–
1895 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
32 Emory Neal Yard[1] 1895
–
1897 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
33 Welling G. Sickel[3][1]
(b. 1858) 		1897
–
1899 		2 years   Republican Vice President of
United Globe Rubber Co.
34
Frank Obadiah Briggs[4]

(1851–1913; aged 61) 		1899
–
1902 		3 years   Republican Member of the
Trenton School Board
35
Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr.[5]

(1868–1929; aged 60) 		1902
–
1906 		4 years   Democratic Alderman At-large
36 Frederick W. Gnichtel[1]
(b. 1860) 		1906
–
1908 		2 years   Republican [data missing]
37 Walter Madden[1]
(b. 1873) 		1908
–
1911 		3 years   Democratic [data missing]
38
Frederick William Donnelly[2]

(1866–1935; aged 68) 		1911
–
1932 		21 years   Democratic [data missing]
Acting1 Edward Lee 1932
–
1932 		under 1 year   [data missing] [data missing]
39 George LaBarre 1932
–
1934 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
40 William J. Connor[1]
 1935
–
1939 		4 years   [data missing] [data missing]
41 Leo Rogers
 1939
–
1941 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
42 Ward Lee
 1941
–
1941 		under 1 year   [data missing] [data missing]
43 John Anthony Hartmann I
 1941
–
1943 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
44 Andrew Duch
 1943
–
1947 		4 years   [data missing] [data missing]
45 Donal J. Connolly
(1909–1995; aged 86) 		1947
–
1959 		12 years   Democratic State Assemblyman
46
Arthur J. Holland

(1918–1989; aged 71) 		1959
–
1966 		6 years   Democratic City Councilman
47 Carmen J. Armenti
(1929–2001; aged 72) 		1966
–
1970 		4 years   Democratic City Councilman, North Ward
48
Arthur J. Holland

(1918–1989; aged 71) 		1970
–
November 9, 1989 		20 years   Democratic Former Mayor of Trenton
Acting2 Carmen J. Armenti
(1929–2001; aged 72) 		November 9, 1989
–
July 1, 1990 		234 days   Republican City Council President
49 Douglas Palmer[6][7]
(born in 1951; aged 72) 		July 1, 1990
–
July 1, 2010 		20 years   Democratic Mercer County
Freeholder
, First African-American mayor
50 Tony F. Mack[6]
(born in 1966; aged 58) 		July 1, 2010
–
February 26, 2014 		3 years, 67 days   Democratic Mercer County
Freeholder
, Second African-American mayor
Acting3 George Muschal[8] February 26, 2014
–
July 1, 2014 		125 days   Unaffiliated City Councilman, South Ward
51 Eric Jackson
(born in 1959; aged 64–65) 		July 1, 2014
–
July 1, 2018 		4 years   Democratic Trenton Director of Public Works, Third African-American mayor
52 Reed Gusciora
(born in 1960; aged 64) 		July 1, 2018
–
Incumbent 		2129 days   Democratic New Jersey
Assemblyman

References

  1. ^
    Political Graveyard
    . Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. ^
    New York Times
    . September 26, 1935. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
  3. Baltimore Sun
    . Apr 14, 1897. Welling G. Slckol, republican, was elected mayor of Trenton over Henry Vandeveer
  4. New York Times
    . May 19, 1913. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  5. New York Times
    . March 14, 1929. Retrieved 2011-09-22. Supreme Court Justice Frank S. Katzenbach of this city died at Mercer Hospital here at 5 o'clock this morning, after an illness of ten days due to septicaemia. He was 60 years old.
  6. ^ a b "Former county Freeholder Tony Mack is elected Trenton mayor". Associated Press. June 16, 2010. Retrieved 2011-09-24. Former county Freeholder Tony Mack rolled to a landslide runoff election win Tuesday over opponent Manny Segura, giving Trenton its first new mayor in 20 years, a report in the Times of Trenton said. ... Mack replaces Doug Palmer, who served for five terms. ...
  7. City Mayors
    . Retrieved 2010-03-22. Douglas Palmer was born in Trenton and attended Trenton Public Schools. He then graduated from Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Virginia's private black college Hampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1973. ...
  8. The Times of Trenton
    . Retrieved February 26, 2014.
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