List of mayors of Trenton, New Jersey

List of mayors

#	Image	Mayor	Term in office	Length of service	Party affiliation		Previous office
1		Moore Furman[1] (1728–1808)	1792 – 1794	2 years		[data 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 missing]	New Jersey Assemblyman
4		Joshua Wright[1]	1803 – 1806	3 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
5		Stacy Potts[1]	1806 – 1814	8 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
6		Robert McNealy[1]	1814 – 1832	18 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
7		Charles Burroughs[1]	1832 – 1847	15 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
8		Samuel R. Hamilton[1]	1847 – 1849	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
9		William C. Howell[1]	1849 – 1850	1 year		[data missing]	[data missing]
10		William Napton[1]	1850 – 1852	2 years		[data missing]	New Jersey Assemblyman
11		John R. Tucker[1]	1852 – 1854	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
12		William Napton[1]	1854 – 1855	1 year		[data missing]	Former Mayor of Trenton
13		William P. Sherman[1]	1855 – 1855	under 1 year		[data missing]	[data missing]
14		John R. Tucker[1]	1855 – 1856	1 year		[data missing]	Former Mayor of Trenton
15		Joseph Wood[1]	1856 – 1859	3 years		Democratic	[data missing]
16		Franklin S. Mills[1]	1859 – 1861	2 years		[data missing]	New Jersey Assemblyman
17		William R. McKean[1]	1861 – 1863	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
18		Franklin S. Mills[1]	1863 – 1867	4 years		[data missing]	Former Mayor of Trenton
19		Alfred Reed[1] (1839–1918)	1867 – 1868	1 year		[data missing]	[data missing]
20		William Napton[1]	1868 – 1871	3 years		[data missing]	Former Mayor of Trenton
21		John Briest[1]	1871 – 1875	4 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
22		Wesley Creveling[1]	1875 – 1877	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
23		Daniel R. Bodine[1]	1877 – 1879	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
24		William Rice[1]	1879 – 1881	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
25		Garrett D. W. Vroom[1] (b. 1843)	1881 – 1884	3 years		Democratic	[data 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 missing]	Former New Jersey Senator
28		Frank A. Magowan[1]	1887 – 1889	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
29		Anthony A. Skirm[1]	1889 – 1891	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
30		Daniel J. Bechtel[1]	1891 – 1893	2 years		Democratic	[data missing]
31		Joseph B. Shaw[1]	1893 – 1895	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
32		Emory Neal Yard[1]	1895 – 1897	2 years		[data missing]	[data 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 missing]
37		Walter Madden[1] (b. 1873)	1908 – 1911	3 years		Democratic	[data missing]
38		Frederick William Donnelly[2] (1866–1935; aged 68)	1911 – 1932	21 years		Democratic	[data missing]
Acting1		Edward Lee	1932 – 1932	under 1 year		[data missing]	[data missing]
39		George LaBarre	1932 – 1934	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
40		William J. Connor[1]	1935 – 1939	4 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
41		Leo Rogers	1939 – 1941	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
42		Ward Lee	1941 – 1941	under 1 year		[data missing]	[data missing]
43		John Anthony Hartmann I	1941 – 1943	2 years		[data missing]	[data missing]
44		Andrew Duch	1943 – 1947	4 years		[data missing]	[data 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 J. 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 73)	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 58)	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 64–65)	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 64)	July 1, 2018 – Incumbent	2327 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.