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List of mayors of Buffalo, New York

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Mayor of the City of Buffalo
City seal
City flag
Incumbent
Sean Ryan
since January 1, 2026
Government of Buffalo
StyleThe Honorable[1]
SeatBuffalo City Hall
Term length
  • Four years; renewable
Constituting instrument
Buffalo City Charter
Inaugural holderEbenezer Johnson
Formation1832
SuccessionDeputy Mayor of Buffalo
DeputyDeputy Mayor of Buffalo
Salary$178,519 (2024)
Websitewww.buffalony.gov/490/Mayor

The mayor of Buffalo is the head of government and chief executive for the city of Buffalo, New York, the second-largest city in New York State.[2] As of 2024, the mayor's salary is $178,519.[3]

List of mayors

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Mayors of the City of Buffalo
No. Mayor Term in office Party
1   Ebenezer Johnson
(1786–1849)
[4]		 May 28, 1832[4]
–
March 12, 1833[5]
(re-elected, declined)[a]		 Democratic-Republican
2 Major Andre Andrews[b]
(1792–1834)
[6]		 March 12, 1833[5]
–
1834[6][c]
(re-elected, declined)[7]		 Independent
3   Ebenezer Johnson
(1786–1849)
[4]		 August 19, 1834[8]
–
1835		 Democratic-Republican
4   Hiram Pratt
(1800–1840)
[9]		 1835
–
March 8, 1836[10]
 Whig
5 Samuel Wilkeson
(1781–1848)
[11]		 March 8, 1836[10]
–
March 14, 1837		 Independent
6   Josiah Trowbridge March 14, 1837
–
December 21, 1837		 Whig
7 Pierre A. Barker December 21, 1837
–
March 14, 1838		 Independent
8   Ebenezer Walden March 13, 1838
–
1839		 Whig
9 Hiram Pratt
(1800–1840)
[9]		 March 12, 1839[12]
–
1840		 Whig
10 Sheldon Thompson 1840
–
March 2, 1841		 Whig
11 Isaac R. Harrington March 2, 1840
–
March 8, 1841		 Whig
12   George W. Clinton
(1807–1885)
[13]		 March 1, 1842[13]
–
1843		 Democratic[13]
13 Joseph G. Masten
(1807–1871)
[14]		 March 14, 1843[15]
–
1844		 Democratic
14   William Ketchum 1844
–
1845		 Whig
15   Joseph G. Masten
(1811–1871)
[14]		 1845
–
1846		 Democratic
16   Solomon G. Haven
(1810–1861)
[16]		 1846
–
1847		 Whig
17 Elbridge G. Spaulding
(1809–1897)
[17]		 1847
–
1848		 Whig[d]
18 Orlando Allen
(1803–1874)
[18]		 February 28, 1848[19]
–
1849		 Whig
19 Hiram Barton 1849
–
1850		 Whig
20   Henry K. Smith 1850
–
March 4, 1851		 Democratic
21 James Wadsworth March 4, 1851
–
1850		 Democratic
22   Hiram Barton March 9, 1852
–
1853		 Whig
23   Eli Cook 1853
–
1855		 Democratic
24 Frederick P. Stevens 1856
–
1857		 Democratic
25 Timothy T. Lockwood 1858
–
January 2, 1860		 Democratic[20]
26   Franklin A. Alberger
(1825–1877)
[21]		 January 2, 1858
–
January 6, 1862		 Republican[21][e]
27   William G. Fargo
(1818–1881)
[22]		 January 6, 1862
–
1866
(lost election)[23]		 Democratic[22]
28   Chandler J. Wells
(1814–1887)
[24]		 October 17, 1866
–
1867		 National Union[23]
29   William Findlay Rogers
(1820–1899)
[25]		 1868
–
1869		 Democratic[25]
30   Alexander Brush 1870
–
1873		 Republican
  Lewis P. Dayton 1874
–
1875		 Democratic
32   Philip Becker 1876
–
January 7, 1878		 Republican
33   Solomon Scheu January 7, 1878
–
January 1880		 Democratic
34   Alexander Brush January 1880
–
January 2, 1882		 Republican
35   Grover Cleveland
(1837–1908)
[26]		 January 2, 1882[27]
–
November 20, 1882[26]		 Democratic[26]
36   Marcus M. Drake November 20, 1882
–
December 29, 1882[28]
(resigned)[29]		 Republican
37   Harmon S. Cutting
(1830–1884)
[28]		 December 29, 1882[30]
–
January 9, 1883[29]
(did not seek election)[29]		 Democratic[29]
38 John B. Manning January 16, 1883
–
January 6, 1884		 Democratic
39 Jonathan Scoville January 6, 1884
–
1885		 Democratic
40   Philip Becker 1886
–
1890		 Republican
41   Charles F. Bishop 1890
–
1894		 Democratic
42   Edgar B. Jewett 1895
–
1897		 Republican
43   Conrad Diehl 1898
–
1901		 Democratic
44   Erastus C. Knight 1902
–
1905		 Republican
45   James N. Adam 1906
–
1909		 Democratic
46 Louis P. Fuhrmann 1910
–
1917		 Democratic
47   George S. Buck 1918
–
1921
(lost election)[31]		 Republican[32]
48 Frank X. Schwab January 2, 1922[33]
–
1929		 Republican[34]
49 Charles E. Roesch 1930
–
1933		 Republican
50   George J. Zimmermann January 1, 1934[35][f]
–
1937		 Democratic
51 Thomas L. Holling 1938
–
1941		 Democratic
52 Joseph J. Kelly
(1897–1963)
[36]		 January 1, 1942[37][g]
–
December 31, 1945[36]		 Democratic[36]
53   Bernard J. Dowd
(1891–1971)
[38]		 January 1, 1946[39]
–
1949		 Republican[38]
54 Joseph Mruk
(1903–1995)
[40]		 January 1, 1950[41]
–
December 31, 1953[40]
(ineligible for re-election)[42][h]		 Republican[44]
55   Steven Pankow January 1, 1954[45]
–
December 31, 1957		 Democratic[45][i]
56 Frank A. Sedita January 1, 1958
–
December 31, 1961		 Democratic[47]
57   Chester A. Kowal January 1, 1962
–
December 31, 1965		 Republican
58 Frank A. Sedita January 1, 1966
–
March 5, 1973
(resigned)[48]		 Democratic[47]
59 Stanley Makowski
(1923–1981)
[49]		 March 5, 1973[50]
–
December 31, 1977[51]
(declined to run)[47]		 Democratic[47]
60   James D. Griffin
(1929–2008)
[52]		 January 1, 1978[53]
–
December 31, 1993
(retired)[54]		 Democratic[j]
 
61 Anthony Masiello January 1, 1994[57]
–
December 31, 2005
(declined to run)[58]		 Democratic[59]
62 Byron Brown
(born 1958)
[60]		 December 31, 2005[61]
–
October 15, 2024[62]
(resigned)[62]		 Democratic[63]
63 Christopher Scanlon[k]
(born 1981)
[66]		 October 15, 2024
–
December 31, 2025
(lost primary)[67]		 Democratic[68]
64 Sean Ryan
(born 1960)
[68]		 January 1, 2026[67]
–
Incumbent		 Democratic[68]

History

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In 1853, the charter of the city was amended to include the town of Black Rock and the city proper was divided into thirteen wards. In addition, the term of city offices, including mayor changed from a one-year term to a two-year term and was elected directly by the people.[69]

Mayoral elections

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(winners are in bold)

DateCandidates 
November 8, 1881Grover ClevelandMilton Beebe
 15,12011,528
January 9, 1883John B. ManningRobert R. Hefford
 11,0367,321
November 6, 1973Stanley M. MakowskiStewart M. LevyJohn A. WestraPatrick W. GiagnacovaIra Liebowitz
 77,56924,4232,6401,147597
November 2, 1993Anthony MasielloRichard A. GrimmEugene Fahey
 36,0929,2777,566
November 8, 2005Byron BrownKevin HelferJudith EinachCharles Flynn
 46,61319,8533,5253,082
November 3, 2009Byron BrownMichael P. Kearns
 17,728158
November 5, 2013Byron BrownSergio Rodriguez
 26,12010,733
November 7, 2017Byron BrownMark J F SchroederAnita HowardTerrence RobinsonTaniqua Simmons
 29,68811,4461,3571,276102
November 2, 2021 Byron Brown India Walton Ben Carlisle Jaz Miles William O'Dell
  38,338 25,773 219 23 8

See also

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References

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Johnson was unanimously re-elected by the Board of Aldermen on March 12, 1833, but turned down the position.[5]
  2. ↑ Major was not his rank, but his given name. His granddaughter recounted that he "did not like his name and always signed it M. A. Andrews".[6]
  3. ↑ No later than August 18, when he died of cholera.[6]
  4. ↑ Spaulding later changed his affiliation to the Republican Party.[17]
  5. ↑ Formerly a Whig[21]
  6. ↑ Zimmermann's signed oath of office erroneously states the date as January 1, 1933, which was lampooned in the Buffalo Evening News.[35]
  7. ↑ Kelly was administered the oath of office the day before, but officially became mayor on January 1, 1942.[37]
  8. ↑ At the time, mayors could only serve for one four-year term.[43]
  9. ↑ Pankow switched his registration from Republican to Democratic sometime shortly before 1948.[46]
  10. ↑ Despite running on other parties' tickets, Griffin was a registered Democrat for his entire life. In 1977, he lost the Democratic primary, but ran on the Conservative Party ticket which went on to win.[55] During the 1981 mayoral election, Griffin ran on the Democratic, Republican, and Conservative lines, as is allowed in New York.[56] For his final two terms in office, he served as a Republican.[55]
  11. ↑ Scanlon became acting mayor following the resignation of Byron Brown on October 15, 2024.[64] However, he is listed as mayor on the City of Buffalo's History of Mayors list.[65]

Citations

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  1. ↑ Donohue 1904, p. 165.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Kelly 2024, § The ever-expanding executive.
  4. 1 2 3 Carew Sheldon, Johnson 1919, p. 32.
  5. 1 2 3 Buffalo Patriot and Commercial Advertiser 1833.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Carew Sheldon, Andrews 1919, p. 32.
  7. ↑ Densmore 1981, p. 8.
  8. ↑ Buffalo Patriot and Commercial Advertiser 1834.
  9. 1 2 Carew Sheldon, Pratt 1919, p. 36.
  10. 1 2 Daily Commercial Advertiser 1836.
  11. ↑ National Cyclopædia of American Biography 1893, p. 414.
  12. ↑ Carew Sheldon, Pratt 1919a, p. 32.
  13. 1 2 3 Eberle 1981, p. 68.
  14. 1 2
  15. ↑ Carew Sheldon, Masten 1919, p. 15.
  16. ↑ House of Representatives – Haven n.d.
  17. 1 2 House of Representatives – Spaulding n.d.
  18. ↑ The Buffalo Times 1924.
  19. ↑ Carew Sheldon, Allen 1919, p. 38.
  20. ↑ Gerber 1989, p. 45.
  21. 1 2 3 Milligan 1981, p. 4.
  22. 1 2 John 2000.
  23. 1 2 Carew Sheldon, Wells 1919, p. 69.
  24. ↑
  25. 1 2 House of Representatives – Rogers n.d.
  26. 1 2 3 Bullard 1981, p. 68.
  27. ↑ Przepasniak 2026.
  28. 1 2 Bullard 1981a, p. 89.
  29. 1 2 3 4 Bullard 1981a, p. 90.
  30. ↑ Buffalo Courier Express 1882.
  31. ↑ Lay 1995, p. 23.
  32. ↑ Lay 1995, p. 21.
  33. ↑ The Buffalo Times 1922, p. 1.
  34. ↑ Lay 1995, p. 19.
  35. 1 2 Bermingham 1934, p. 13.
  36. 1 2 3 Buffalo Evening News 1981a, p. 21.
  37. 1 2 Buffalo Courier Express 1942.
  38. 1 2 Bullard 1981b, p. 105.
  39. ↑ Tranter 1946, p. 17.
  40. 1 2 House of Representatives – Mruk n.d.
  41. ↑ Meddoff 1950.
  42. ↑ Mullen 1953, p. 25.
  43. ↑ The Buffalo News 1995, p. B4.
  44. ↑ Leckie 1949, p. 9.
  45. 1 2 Zubler 1954, p. 7.
  46. ↑ Tarapacki 2017.
  47. 1 2 3 4 Buffalo Evening News 1981.
  48. ↑ Gates 1973, p. 1.
  49. ↑
  50. ↑ Gates 1973a, p. 21.
  51. ↑ Allan 1977, p. 1.
  52. ↑ Brady & McCarthy 2008.
  53. ↑ Goldberg 1978.
  54. ↑ Fairbanks 1993, p. A-7.
  55. 1 2 Staba 2003.
  56. ↑ Borrelli 1981, p. 1.
  57. ↑ Buffalo News 1994.
  58. ↑ Staba 2005.
  59. ↑ Williams 2019.
  60. ↑ Watson 2008, § 50 is the new 50.
  61. ↑ Kantz 2015.
  62. 1 2 Whalen 2024.
  63. ↑ Thompson 2024.
  64. ↑
  65. ↑ History of Mayors n.d.
  66. ↑
  67. 1 2 Baiano 2026.
  68. 1 2 3 Kelly 2025.
  69. ↑ Fargo, Francis F. (1876). Memorial of the City and County Hall Opening Ceremonies. Buffalo, N.Y.: Courier Company, printers. p. 142. Retrieved August 16, 2016. Elbridge G. Spaulding mayor of buffalo term.

Sources

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