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List of mayors of Trenton, New Jersey

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List of mayors

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# 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 73)
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
2337 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.