List of mayors of Bridgeport, Connecticut

The Mayor is the chief executive of Bridgeport, Connecticut who is directly elected for a four-year term. They have the power to issue executive orders, declare emergencies, submit a yearly budget to the city council and makes appointments to city government offices.

As of July 2012, the Mayor of Bridgeport earns an annual salary of $132,459.[1]

List of mayors
Name In office Party Notes Reference
Isaac Sherman, Jr. 1836-1837 [2][3]
Daniel Sterling, Jr. 1837-1838 [2][3]
Alanson Hamlin 1838-1839 [2]
Charles Foote 1839 [3]
Charles Bostwick 1840 [2][3]
William P. Burrall 1841-1842? [2][3]
James C. Loomis 1843-1844 [2][3]
Henry K. Harral 1844-1847 [2][3]
Sherwood Sterling 1847-1849 [2][3]
Henry K. Harral 1849-1851 [2][3]
John Brooks, Jr. 1851-1852 [2][3]
Henry K. Harral 1852-1853 [2][3]
Charles B. Hubbell 1853-1854 [2][3]
John Brooks, Jr. 1854-1855 [2][3]
Philo Clark Calhoun 1855-1858 Democratic[4][5] [2][3]
Silas C. Booth 1858-1860 [2][3]
Daniel H. Sterling 1860-1863 [2][3]
Clapp Spooner 1863-1864 Republican[6] [2][3]
Jarratt Morford 1864-1865 [2][3]
Stillman S. Clapp 1865-1866 [2][3]
Monson Hawley 1866-1868 [2][3]
Jarratt Morford 1868-1869 [2][3]
Monson Hawley 1869-1870 [2][3]
Jarratt Morford 1870-1871 [2][3]
Epaphras B. Goodsell 1871-1874 Democratic[7] [2][3]
Robert Toucey Clarke 1874-1875 [2][3][8]
Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum 1875-1876 Republican[9] [2][3]
Jarratt Morford 1876-1878 [2][3]
Robert E. De Forest 1878-1879 Democratic[10][11] [2][3]
John L. Wessells 1879-1880 [2][3]
Daniel Nash Morgan 1880-1881 Democratic[12] [2][3]
John L. Wessells 1881-1882 [2][3]
Carlos Curtis 1882-1883 [2][3]
John L. Wessells 1883-1884 [2][3]
Daniel Nash Morgan 1884-1885 [2][3]
Henry H. Pyle 1885-1886 [2][3]
Civilion Fones 1886-1888 A dentist, his son Alfred Fones was also a dentist
and a leader in early oral hygiene and education.[13][14]		 [2][3]
Patrick Coughlin 1888-1889 [2]
Robert E. De Forest 1889-1891 Democratic [2]
William Henry Marigold 1891-1893 Republican[15] [2]
Walter B. Bostwick 1893-1895 [2]
Frank E. Clark 1895-1897 Democratic[16] [2]
Thomas P. Taylor 1897-1899 Republican[17] [2]
Hugh Stirling 1899-1901 Republican[18] [2]
Denis Mulvihill 1901-1905 Democratic[19] [2][20]
Marcus L. Reynolds 1905-1907 [2][20]
Henry Lee 1907-1909 [2][20]
Edward T. Buckingham 1909-1911 Democratic[21] [2][20]
Clifford B. Wilson 1911-1921 Republican[22] [2][20]
Fred Atwater 1921-1923 Democratic[23] [2][20]
F. William Behrens, Jr. 1923-1929 Republican[24] [2][20]
Edward T. Buckingham 1929-1933 Democratic [2][20]
Jasper McLevy 1933-1957 Socialist[25] Longest-serving mayor [2][20]
Samuel J. Tedesco 1957-1965 Democratic[26] [20]
Hugh C. Curran 1965-1971 Democratic[27] [20]
Nicholas A. Panuzio 1971-1975 Republican Resigned toward the end of his second term to serve as deputy administrator
of the General Services Administration in the Gerald Ford administration[28]		 [2][20]
William Seres 1975 Republican President of the Common Council who succeeded as mayor following
Panuzio's resignation; served 55 days[29]		 [20]
John C. Mandanici 1975-1981 Democratic[30] [2][20]
Leonard S. "Lenny" Paoletta 1981-1985 Republican[31] [20]
Thomas W. Bucci 1985-1989 Democratic[32] [20]
Mary C. Moran 1989-1991 Republican First and only woman to serve as Bridgeport mayor;
last Republican to serve as Bridgeport mayor;
unsuccessfully sought to have city declared insolvent in municipal bankruptcy[33][34][35]		 [20]
Joseph P. "Joe" Ganim 1991-2003 Democratic Second-longest serving Bridgeport mayor; was convicted on
federal corruption charges in 2003; spent seven years in prison.[36][37]		 [20]
John M. Fabrizi 2003-2007 Democratic Did not run for a second term in 2007 after admitting to a drinking problem
and use of cocaine while in office.[38][39]		 [2][20]
Bill Finch 2007-2015 Democratic Defeated by Joseph P. Ganim during the Democratic primary in September 2015.[40] [2][20]
Joseph P. "Joe" Ganim 2015-present Democratic Second-longest serving Bridgeport mayor; was convicted on
federal corruption charges in 2003; spent seven years in prison; re-elected to office November 3, 2015;[41][42][43] Sworn in on December 1, 2015.[44]		 [20]

References
Specific
  1. "Finch, mayor of biggest city, doesn't earn biggest salary". ctnews.com. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  2. Bridgeport, Connecticut, The Political Graveyard.
  3. Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City Bridgeport of Connecticut (Vol. 2), Fairfield County Historical Society: 1886.
  4. History of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), pp. 689-90.
  5. A. H. Saxon, P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man (Columbia University Press, 1989), p. 217.
  6. America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 2 (ed. Henry Hall), 1896, p. 742.
  7. Men of Progress, p. 145.
  8. History of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), pp. 607.
  9. Susan Nance, "Barnum, P.T. (1810-1891)" in American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History (ed. Gina Misiroglu), M.E. Sharpe: 2009, p. 63.
  10. Daniel R. Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (University of Illinois Press, 19965), p. 41.
  11. Gerald W. McFarland, Mugwumps, Morals, & Politics, 1884-1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1975), pp. 66-67.
  12. Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, p. 165.
  13. Mary K. Witkowski, Bridgeport at Work (Arcadia Publishing, 2000), p. 88.
  14. Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century (Rutgers University Press, 2009), p. 36.
  15. Men of Progress, p. 389.
  16. History of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), p. 616.
  17. Robert Coltrane, "Taylor, Thomas P." in A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, (Greenwood Press, 2003, ed. Keith Newlin), pp. 360-61.
  18. Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, p. 165.
  19. Bannister Merwin, Our Own Times: A Continuous History of the Twentieth Century (Vol. 1), J. A. Hill: 1904.
  20. Bridgeport Mayors 1901-Present, City of Bridgeport.
  21. Cecelia Bucki, Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36 (University of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 96-97.
  22. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 25-26.
  23. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 26.
  24. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 29.
  25. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 31-36, 45
  26. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 46-49.
  27. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 51-54.
  28. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 51-54.
  29. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 55.
  30. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 56-58.
  31. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 66-70.
  32. Peter F. Burns, Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics (SUNY Press, 2012), p. 15.
  33. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 90-92.
  34. George Judson, U.S. Judge Blocks Bridgeport From Bankruptcy Court, New York Times (August 2, 1991).
  35. Nick Ravo, A Novice Reigns as Bridgeport Mayor, New York Times, November 15, 1989.
  36. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 97-98, 102-03.
  37. Edmund H. Mahony, Joe Ganim: Is He Back?, Hartford Courant, January 12, 2015.
  38. Alison Leigh Cowan, Mayor of Scandal-Weary Bridgeport Admits That He Used Cocaine, New York Times, June 21, 2006.
  39. Brian Lockhart, Fabrizi exploring run for mayor, Connecticut Post, June 4, 2014.
  40. Joseph De Avila, Ganim, Former Bridgeport Mayor Who Served Prison Time, Wins Primary, Wall Street Journal (September 17, 2015).
  41. Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 97-98, 102-03.
  42. Edmund H. Mahony, Joe Ganim: Is He Back?, Hartford Courant, January 12, 2015.
  43. Ex-convict declares victory in Bridgeport mayor’s race WTNH (November 3, 2015).
  44. Associated Press, Ganim Sworn In As Bridgeport Mayor Five Years After Getting Out of Prison (December 1, 2015).
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