Buffalo, NY, Mayors

See also Buffalo Mayors Trivia Quiz Alphabetical list of mayors: Adam Alberger Allen Andrews Barker Barton Becker Bishop Brown Brush Buck Cleveland Clinton Cook Cutting Dayton Diehl Dowd Drake Fargo Fuhrmann Griffin Harrington Haven Holling Jewett Johnson Kelly Ketchum Knight Kowal Lockwood Makowski Manning Masiello Masten Mruk Pankow Pratt Roesch Rogers Scheu Schwab Scoville Sedita Smith Spaulding Stevens Thompson Trowbridge Wadsworth Walden Wells Wilkeson Zimmermann

Chronological list of mayors:

1832, 1834
Dr. Ebenezer Johnson

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Ebenezer Johnson  Black & white exhibit, Buffalo History Museum
  
• Ebenezer Johnson - History, illustrations
• Rumsey Park

1833
Major A. Andrews

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Genesee Gateway Historic District

1835, 1839
Hiram Pratt

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Last Look... 159 Swan (Conlin)
• Pratt Family in Buffalo

1836
Samuel Wilkeson

• Rev. Albert Bigelow, Samuel Wilkeson      Portrait in The History Museum
  
• Samuel Wilkeson Illustrated bio
• David Minor, Buffalo Judge Samuel Wilkeson Bio in The Buffalonian
• Niagara Square Wilkeson House
• Chris Brown, Wilkeson House
  
  
• Katheryne T. Whittemore, Carving the Harbor That Built Buffalo
• Landmark Application for the Col.Samuel H. Wilkeson House, 771 Busti Avenue Grandson of Samuel Wilkeson

1837
Dr. Josiah Trowbridge

• Dr. Josiah Trowbridge (Rizzo

1837
Pierre A. Barker

• Pierre A. Barker (Rizzo)
• "Barker and Sidway Families" in Historic Plymouth Avenue in the Kleinhans Neighborhood on pages 3-4 (Brown)

1838
Ebenezer Walden

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Ebenezer Walden
• Walden-Myer Mausoleum
• Walden-Myer Mausoleum by Reisem & Olenick
• Wilcox Mansion/Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Photos plus history
• Earliest Buffalo Maps plus text

1840
Capt. Sheldon Thompson

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1841
Isaac R. Harrington

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Irish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1842
George W. Clinton

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1843, 1845
Joseph G. Masten

• Joseph Masten
• From Masten Park to City Honors Illustrations and history
• Wilcox Mansion/Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Illustrations, history, architecture

1844
William Ketchum

1846
Solomon G. Haven

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1847
Elbridge G. Spaulding

• Spaulding Family - LINKS

1848
Orlando Allen

• Portrait
• Orlando Allen, Personal recollections of Captain Jones and Parrish, and of the payment of Indian annuities in Buffalo Reprinted by Cornell U.
• William C. Bryant, Orlando Allen. Glimpses of life in the village of Buffalo. Read before the society, April 16, 1877. Reprinted by Cornell U.

1849, 1852
Hiram Barton

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Lucy Ann Clark Barton (Kavanaugh)

1850
Henry K. Smith

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1851
James Wadsworth

1853-55
Eli Cook

1856-57
Frederick P. Stevens

• 1856

1858-59
Timothy T. Lockwood

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1860-61
Franklin A. Alberger

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1862-65
William G. Fargo

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Chronology and Illustrations
• Cynthia Hammond, A Lost Buffalo Landmark: The Fargo Mansion
  
  
• Page 44 Historic Plymouth Avenue in the Kleinhans Neighborhood By Christopher N. Brown
• National Register of Historic Places Registration Form:  Fargo Estate Historic District  (online Sept. 2020)
  
• Henry Mooney House - on former Fargo estate property
  
  
• William C. Fargo Family Monument in Forest Lawn Cemetery
• Memorial stained glass window in Trinity Episcopal Church
• Henry Wells House
  

1866-67
Chandler J. Wells

• Chandler J. Wells (Rizzo)

1868-69
Maj. Gen. William F. Rogers

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1870-1873 and 1880-1881
Alexander Brush

• Portrait - - City Hall Portrait Collection

1874-75
Louis P. Dayton

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Buffalo Fire Engine House #2

1876-1877 and 1886-1889
Philip Becker

• Portrait - - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Philip Becker
• Philip Becker House, 534 Delaware Avenue
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY
• Becker Monument, Forest Lawn Cemetery
  

1878-79
Solomon Scheu

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1882
Grover Cleveland

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Grover Cleveland - A Chronology Includes illustrations
• City Hall Grover Cleveland Monument
  
  
• Milton Plesur, Grover Cleveland -- Buffalo's 'Honest Politician' Goes to Washington Essay
• Francis J. Walter, Grover Cleveland: 1837-1870  Essay
• Political cartoon: "Between Scylla and Charybdis"
  
  
• President Cleveland's Cottage Near Washington, D.C.
• Calling card example
• Jeff Schober, When it comes to presidential history, Buffalo trails only the nation’s capital
  
  
• Buffalo Presidential Center
• Frances Folsom - Table of Contents
  

1882
Marcus M. Drake

1882
Harmon S. Cutting

1882
John B. Manning

• Portrait

1884-85
Jonathan Scoville

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• 830 Delaware Ave

1890-94
Charles F. Bishop

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1895-97
Edgar B. Jewett

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Jewett Refrigerator Co.
• 880 West Ferry St.
  
• Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York, p. 72

1898-1901
Conrad Diehl

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY
• Leaders of the Pan-American Exposition Buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery

1902-05
Erastus C. Knight

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Photo of Memorial in Forest Lawn Cemetery

1906-09
James N. Adam

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Short Biography
• AM&A's Department Store Building - LINKS
• Circa 1913 postcard

1910-17
Louis P. Fuhrmann

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1918-21
George S. Buck

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1922-29
Frank X. Schwab

• Photo of Schwab bust in City Hall lobby
• Frank X. Schwab (Rizzo)
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1930-33
Charles E. Roesch

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1934-37
George J. Zimmermann

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• 1938 in The History of Buffalo: An Illustrated Chronology
• History of German-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1938-41
Thomas L. Holling

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collectio

1942-45
Joseph J. Kelly

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1946-49
Bernard J. Dowd

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection

1950-53
Joseph Mruk

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Polish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1954-57
Steven Pankow

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Polish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1958- 1961 and 1966-1973
Frank A. Sedita

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Italian-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1962-65
Chester Kowal

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Polish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1973-77
Stanley M. Makowski

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• History of Polish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1978-94
James D. Griffin

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
• Timothy Bohen, The Ward Gets Back Up: Jimmy Griffin
• Monument, Holy Cross Cemetery
• Statue at Buffalo Baseball Stadium
  
• History of Irish-Americans in Buffalo, NY

1994-2004
Anthony Masiello

• Portrait - City Hall Portrait Collection
  
• History of Italian-Americans in Buffalo, NY

2005-present
Byron Brown II

• Portrait By Philip Burke
  

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