City of Syracuse

Mayors of Syracuse, New York

Harvey Baldwin Mayor 1848	Elias Warner Leavenworth Mayor 1849, 1859	Alfred H. Hovey Mayor 1850	Horace Wheaton Mayor 1851	Jason Cooper Woodruff Mayor 1852
Dennis McCarthy Mayor 1853	Allen Munroe Mayor 1854	Lyman Stevens Mayor 1855	Charles Ferre Williston Mayor 1856-1857	William Winton Mayor 1858
Amos Westcott Mayor 1860	Charles Andrews Mayor 1861-62, 1868	Daniel Bookstaver Mayor 1863	Archibald Campbell Powell Mayor 1864	William Davenport Stewart Mayor 1865-1867
Charles Parsons Clark Mayor 1869-1870	Francis Edward Carroll Mayor 1871-1872	William James Wallace Mayor 1873	Nathan Fitch Graves Mayor 1874	George Philip Hier Mayor 1875
John J. Crouse Mayor 1876	James Jerome Belden Mayor 1877-1878	Irving Goodwin Vann Mayor 1879	Francis Hendricks Mayor 1880-1881	John Demong Mayor 1882
Thomas Ryan Mayor 1883-1885	Willis Bates Burns Mayor 1886-1887	William Burns Kirk Mayor 1888-1889	William Cowie Mayor 1890-1891	Jacob Amos Mayor 1892-1895
James Kennedy McGuire Mayor 1896-1901	Jay Butler Kline Mayor 1902-1903	Alan Cutler Fobes Mayor 1904-1909	Edward Schoeneck Mayor 1910-1913	Louis Will Mayor 1914-1915
Walter Robinson Stone Mayor 1916-1919	Harry Haile Farmer Mayor 1920-1921	John Henry Walrath Mayor 1922-1925	Charles George Hanna Mayor 1926-1929	Rowland Bristol Marvin Mayor 1930-1941
Thomas Edward Kennedy Mayor 1942-1945	Frank James Costello Mayor 1946-1949	Thomas Joseph Corcoran Mayor 1950-1953	Donald Howe Mead Mayor 1954-1957	Anthony Aloysius Henninger Mayor 1958-1961
William Francis Walsh Mayor 1962-1969	Lee Alexander Mayor 1970-1985	Thomas Ganley Young Mayor 1986-1993	Roy Albert Bernardi Mayor 1994-2001	Matthew John Driscoll Mayor 2001-2009

From 1848 to 1885, Mayors were elected to a one-year term.

Effective with Mayor Burns in 1886, the term was changed to two years.

During Mayor Marvin’s (1930-1941) service, the term was changed to four years and a one-term limit was imposed.

Effective with Mayor Walsh (1962-1969), there were no limits on the number of four-year terms a Mayor could serve.

Since Mayor Young (1986-1993), a two-term limit has been in effect.

Mayor Driscoll (2001-2009) served 8-1/2 years, moving from the office of President of the Common Council to Mayor on July 10, 2001 with the resignation of his predecessor.