List of mayors of Trenton, New Jersey

List of mayors

# Mayor Term in office Length of service Party affiliation Previous office
1 Moore Furman[1]
(1728–1808)
1792
–
1794
2 years   [data unknown/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 unknown/missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
4 Joshua Wright[1] 1803
–
1806
3 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
5 Stacy Potts[1] 1806
–
1814
8 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
6 Robert McNealy[1] 1814
–
1832
18 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
7 Charles Burroughs[1] 1832
–
1847
15 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
8 Samuel R. Hamilton[1] 1847
–
1849
2 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
9 William C. Howell[1] 1849
–
1850
1 year [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
10 William Napton[1] 1850
–
1852
2 years [data unknown/missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
11 John R. Tucker[1] 1852
–
1854
2 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
12 William Napton[1] 1854
–
1855
1 year [data unknown/missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
13 William P. Sherman[1] 1855
–
1855
under 1 year [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
14 John R. Tucker[1] 1855
–
1856
1 year [data unknown/missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
15 Joseph Wood[1] 1856
–
1859
3 years   Democratic [data unknown/missing]
16 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1859
–
1861
2 years [data unknown/missing] New Jersey Assemblyman
17 William R. McKean[1] 1861
–
1863
2 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
18 Franklin S. Mills[1] 1863
–
1867
4 years [data unknown/missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
19 Alfred Reed[1]
(1839–1918)
1867
–
1868
1 year [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
20 William Napton[1] 1868
–
1871
3 years [data unknown/missing] Former Mayor of Trenton
21 John Briest[1] 1871
–
1875
4 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
22 Wesley Creveling[1] 1875
–
1877
2 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
23 Daniel R. Bodine[1] 1877
–
1879
2 years [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
24 William Rice[1] 1879
–
1881
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
25 Garrett D. W. Vroom[1]
(b. 1843)
1881
–
1884
3 years   Democratic [data unknown/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 unknown/missing] Former New Jersey
Senator
28 Frank A. Magowan[1] 1887
–
1889
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
29 Anthony A. Skirm[1] 1889
–
1891
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
30 Daniel J. Bechtel[1] 1891
–
1893
2 years   Democratic [data unknown/missing]
31 Joseph B. Shaw[1] 1893
–
1895
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
32 Emory Neal Yard[1] 1895
–
1897
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/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 unknown/missing]
37 Walter Madden[1]
(b. 1873)
1908
–
1911
3 years   Democratic [data unknown/missing]
38 Frederick William Donnelly[2]
(1866–1935; aged 68)
1911
–
1932
21 years   Democratic [data unknown/missing]
Acting1 Edward Lee 1932
–
1932
under 1 year   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
39 George LaBarre 1932
–
1934
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
40 William J. Connor[1]
1935
–
1939
4 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
41 Leo Rogers
1939
–
1941
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
42 Ward Lee
1941
–
1941
under 1 year   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
43 John Anthony Hartmann I
1941
–
1943
2 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/missing]
44 Andrew Duch
1943
–
1947
4 years   [data unknown/missing] [data unknown/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 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 70)
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 56)
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 63)
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 62)
July 1, 2018
–
Incumbent
1402 days   Democratic New Jersey Assemblyman

References

  1. "Mayors of Trenton, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  2. "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. "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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