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# Image Mayor Term in office Length of service Party affiliation Previous office
1 Moore Furman[1]
(1728–1808) 		1792
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1794
 2 years   [data missing] Deputy Quartermaster-General and Forage Master of New Jersey
2 Aaron Woodruff[1]
(1762–1817; aged 54) 		1794
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1797
 3 years   Federalist Attorney General of New Jersey
3 James Ewing[1]
(1744–1823) 		1797
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1803
 6 years [data missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
4 Joshua Wright[1] 1803
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1806
 3 years [data missing] [data missing]
5 Stacy Potts[1] 1806
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1814
 8 years [data missing] [data missing]
6 Robert McNealy[1] 1814
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1832
 18 years [data missing] [data missing]
7 Charles Burroughs[1] 1832
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1847
 15 years [data missing] [data missing]
8 Samuel R. Hamilton[1] 1847
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1849
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
9 William C. Howell[1] 1849
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1850
 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
10 William Napton[1] 1850
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1852
 2 years [data missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
11 John R. Tucker[1] 1852
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1854
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
12 William Napton[1] 1854
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1855
 1 year [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
13 William P. Sherman[1] 1855
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1855
 under 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
14 John R. Tucker[1] 1855
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1856
 1 year [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
15 Joseph Wood[1] 1856
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1859
 3 years   Democratic [data missing]
16 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1859
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1861
 2 years [data missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
17 William R. McKean[1] 1861
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1863
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
18 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1863
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1867
 4 years [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
19 Alfred Reed[1]
(1839–1918) 		1867
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1868
 1 year [data missing] [data missing]
20 William Napton[1] 1868
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1871
 3 years [data missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
21 John Briest[1] 1871
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1875
 4 years [data missing] [data missing]
22 Wesley Creveling[1] 1875
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1877
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
23 Daniel R. Bodine[1] 1877
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1879
 2 years [data missing] [data missing]
24 William Rice[1] 1879
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1881
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
25 Garrett D. W. Vroom[1]
(b. 1843) 		1881
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1884
 3 years   Democratic [data missing]
26 Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly[2]
(1841–1905; aged 63) 		1884
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1886
 2 years   Democratic New Jersey
Assemblyman
27 John Woolverton[1] 1886
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1887
 1 year   [data missing] Former New Jersey
Senator
28 Frank A. Magowan[1] 1887
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1889
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
29 Anthony A. Skirm[1] 1889
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1891
 2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
30 Daniel J. Bechtel[1] 1891
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1893 		2 years   Democratic [data missing]
31 Joseph B. Shaw[1] 1893
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1895 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
32 Emory Neal Yard[1] 1895
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1897 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
33 Welling G. Sickel[3][1]
(b. 1858) 		1897
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1899 		2 years   Republican Vice President of
United Globe Rubber Co.
34 Frank Obadiah Briggs[4]
(1851–1913; aged 61) 		1899
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1902 		3 years   Republican Member of the
Trenton School Board
35 Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr.[5]
(1868–1929; aged 60) 		1902
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1906 		4 years   Democratic Alderman At-large
36 Frederick W. Gnichtel[1]
(b. 1860) 		1906
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1908 		2 years   Republican [data missing]
37 Walter Madden[1]
(b. 1873) 		1908
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1911 		3 years   Democratic [data missing]
38 Frederick William Donnelly[2]
(1866–1935; aged 68) 		1911
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1932 		21 years   Democratic [data missing]
Acting1 Edward Lee 1932
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1932 		under 1 year   [data missing] [data missing]
39 George LaBarre 1932
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1934 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
40 William J. Connor[1]
 1935
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1939 		4 years   [data missing] [data missing]
41 Leo Rogers
 1939
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1941 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
42 Ward Lee
 1941
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1941 		under 1 year   [data missing] [data missing]
43 John Anthony Hartmann I
 1941
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1943 		2 years   [data missing] [data missing]
44 Andrew Duch
 1943
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1947 		4 years   [data missing] [data missing]
45 Donal J. Connolly
(1909–1995; aged 86) 		1947
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1959 		12 years   Democratic State Assemblyman
46 Arthur J. Holland
(1918–1989; aged 71) 		1959
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1966 		6 years   Democratic City Councilman
47 Carmen J. Armenti
(1929–2001; aged 72) 		1966
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1970 		4 years   Democratic City Councilman, North Ward
48 Arthur J. Holland
(1918–1989; aged 71) 		1970
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November 9, 1989 		20 years   Democratic Former Mayor of Trenton
Acting2 Carmen J. Armenti
(1929–2001; aged 72) 		November 9, 1989
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July 1, 1990 		234 days   Republican City Council President
49 Douglas Palmer[6][7]
(born in 1951; aged 73) 		July 1, 1990
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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
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February 26, 2014 		3 years, 67 days   Democratic Mercer County Freeholder, Second African-American mayor
Acting3 George Muschal[8] February 26, 2014
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July 1, 2014 		125 days   Unaffiliated City Councilman, South Ward
51 Eric Jackson
(born in 1959; aged 64–65) 		July 1, 2014
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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
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Incumbent 		2324 days   Democratic New Jersey Assemblyman

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "Mayors of Trenton, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. ^ a b "F. Donnely Dead. 21 Years as Mayor. Trenton Leader Resigned in 1932 Because of Health. His Father Mayor 1884-86". New York Times. September 26, 1935. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
  3. ^ "New Jersey Elections". Baltimore Sun. Apr 14, 1897. Welling G. Slckol, republican, was elected mayor of Trenton over Henry Vandeveer
  4. ^ "Ex-Senator Briggs Dead in Trenton". New York Times. May 19, 1913. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  5. ^ "Justice Katzenbach Dies in Hospital. Blood Transfusion Fails to Save New Jersey Jurist Whose Leg Was Infected. Twice Mayor of Trenton. Ran Unsuccessfully for Governorship on Democratic Ticket in 1906. On Bench Eight Years. Eulogized by Federal Judges. Once Ran for Governor". 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. ^ "Douglas Palmer". 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. ^ Pizzi, Jenna (February 26, 2014). "Trenton Council president sworn in as mayor". The Times of Trenton. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
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