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. 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.
As of January 2015, the Mayor of New Haven earns an annual salary of $131,000.
Years
served		NamePartyLivedNotes
1784–1793Roger ShermanFederalist1721–1793Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Later became a U.S. Senator.
1793–1803Samuel BishopDemocratic-Republican1723–1803Also probate judge
1803–1822Elizur GoodrichFederalist1761–1849Professor of law. Also served as a U.S. Congressman.
1822–1826George HoadleyDemocratic-Republican1781–1857Bank president. Later became Mayor of Cleveland.
1826–1827Simeon BaldwinFederalist1761–1851Judge. Was previously a U.S. Congressman.
1827–1828William BristolDemocratic-Republican1779–1836Also State Senator
1828–1830David DaggettFederalist1764–1851Also U.S. Senator; CT House Speaker; Chief Justice of the CT Supreme Court
1830–1831Ralph IngersollDemocrat1789-1872Also U.S. Congressman
1831–1832Dennis KimberlyDemocrat1790–1862Lawyer. 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.
1832–1833Ebenezer SeeleyDemocrat1793–1866
1833–1834Noyes DarlingWhig1782–1846Judge.
1834–1839Henry Collins FlaggWhig1792–1863Lawyer, editor
1839–1842Samuel Johnson HitchcockWhig1786–1845Lawyer, president of Yale Law School
1842–1845Philip S. GalpinWhig1796–1872Businessman
1846–1850Henry E. PeckWhig1795–1867
Newspaper printer and publisher.
1850–1854Aaron N. SkinnerWhig1800–1858Classical boarding school headmaster
1854–1855Chauncey JeromeWhig1793–1868Clock manufacturer
1855-1856Alfred BlackmanDemocrat1807-1880
1856–1860Philip S. GalpinWhig1796–1872Secretary of Mutual Security Insurance Company
1860–1863Harmanus M. WelchDemocrat1813–1889Businessman who was founder and president of the New Haven Rolling Mill and president of the First National Bank.
1863-1865Morris TylerRepublican1806–1876
1865–1866Erastus C. ScrantonRepublican1808–1866
1866–1869Lucien Wells SperryDemocrat1820−1890Carpenter and merchant; committed suicide after embezzling trust funds; died $50,000 in debt.
1869-1870William FitchRepublican1820-1877
1870-1877Henry G. LewisDemocrat1820-1891
1877-1879William R. SheltonDemocrat1821-1892Prosecuted by Republicans for his involvement in a scandal with a female employee
1879-1881Hobart B. BigelowRepublican1834–1891Businessman, founder of the Bigelow Manufacturing Co.
1881-1883John Brownlee RobertsonDemocrat1809-1892
1883-1885Henry G. LewisDemocrat1820-1891
1885-1887George F. HolcombDemocrat
1887–1888Samuel Amos YorkDemocrat1839-1898
1889–1890Henry Franklin PeckRepublican1828-1911
1891–1894Joseph B. SargentDemocrat1822–1907Served three terms. Founder of Sargent & Co.
1895–1896Albert C. HendrickRepublican1833-1912ex-chief of the New Haven Fire Department
1897–1899Frederick Benjamin FarnsworthRepublican1851-1930Presided over the enactment of a new city charter, which gave New Haven a unified administrative structure. Interred in Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven
1899–1901Cornelius Thomas DriscollDemocrat1845–1931born in Ireland, he was New Haven's first immigrant mayor
1901-1909John Payne StudleyRepublican1846–1931Used the police to stop performances of Bernard Shaw's play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession". Interred in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
1910–1917Frank J. RiceRepublican1869–1917Elected to four terms. Died in office.
1917Samuel CampnerRepublican1887-1934New Haven's first Jewish mayor
1918–1926David E. FitzGeraldDemocrat1874-1942
1926-1928John B. TowerRepublican
1929–1931Thomas A. TullyRepublican1886-1950
1932–1944John W. MurphyDemocrat1878–1964Labor leader
1945–1953William C. CelentanoRepublican1904-1972Served eight years. First Italian-American mayor of New Haven, funeral director.
1954–1970Richard C. LeeDemocrat1916–2003Served eight terms. Was New Haven's youngest mayor.
1970–1975Bartholomew F. GuidaDemocrat1914–1978
1976–1979Frank LogueDemocrat1924–2010Served 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.
1980–1989Biagio "Ben" DiLietoDemocrat1922–1999Served five terms. Former police chief.
1990–1993John C. DanielsDemocrat1936–2015First black mayor of New Haven.
1994–2013John DeStefano, Jr.Democratborn 1955New Haven's longest-serving mayor.
2014–2020Toni HarpDemocratborn 1949First woman elected mayor of New Haven.
2020–presentJustin ElickerDemocratborn 1975

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