List of mayors of Erie, Pennsylvania

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This is a list of the people who have served as mayor of the City of Erie, Erie County, in northwestern Pennsylvania.

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From 1805 until 1850, the Borough of Erie was headed by a burgess. The title of mayor has been used since the City of Erie was incorporated on 14 April 1851. The mayor also served as the President of the Select Council for the first nine years of Erie's incorporation.^[1]

A mayor was limited to one term of two years until 1890, when the second term of Charles S. Clarke was lengthened to three years and the limitation was removed. ^[2]

A mayor was inaugurated on the first Monday of April 1896. ^[3] Mayors were inaugurated on the first Monday of January 1916 and January 1924, with elections having been held the previous November. ^{[4] [5]}

At least three mayors died in office: Robert J. Saltsman (1906), Sherman Hickey, Jr. (1948), and Louis J. Tullio (1990). One mayor-elect, Bernard Veit, died soon after his election in November 1915, before he could be inaugurated.

Thomas W. Flatley was removed from office in 1954 in a gambling and bribery scandal. George J. Brabender served as Acting Mayor for less than a month, from 14 December 1954 until 5 January 1955, to fill Flatley's unexpired term. ^[6]

Franklin F. Adams resigned in 1885. Frank A. Mizener completed his unexpired term. ^[6]

Bernard Cochran served as Acting Mayor from March to May 1910, covering the absence of Michael Liebel, Jr. ^[6]

The Abraham Lincoln funeral train stopped in Erie with Mayor F. F. Farrar aboard. Mr. Lincoln made a pre-inaugural rail trip through nearby Girard, Pennsylvania on his way to Washington, D.C. from Illinois.

Ralph W. Tilloston, twice the Socialist candidate for mayor of Erie, was convicted in United States District Court on 20 March 1919 of violation of the Espionage Act. ^[7]

Mario S. Bagnoni (1 April 1922- 5 August 2005) was named honorary Mayor of Erie for a day in June 2005. He served eight terms (32 years) on the Erie City Council and was five times elected president of the council. The Mario S. Bagnoni Council Chambers, located in Erie City Hall, were posthumously named in his honor in September 2005. ^[8] He made two attempts to become Erie mayor. He retired in 1971 as deputy chief of detectives for the Erie Police Department, which he had served since it was the Erie Bureau of Police in 1949. He is interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Fairview, Pennsylvania. ^[9]

[edit] List of Mayors

#	Name	Term Start (Year)	Term End (Year)	Birth Date	Death Date
49	Joseph Sinnott	2006	?
48	Richard E. Filippi	2001	2005
47	Joyce A. Savocchio	1991	2000
46	Louis J. Tullio [10] [11] [12]	1966	1990	17 May 1916	17 April 1990
45	Charles B. Williamson [13]	1962	1965
44	Arthur J. Gardner [14] [15] [16]	1955	1962
43	George J. Brabender [17]	1954	1955
42	Thomas W. Flatley [13] [18] [19] [20]	1952	1954
41	Clairence K Pulling [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [6]	1950	1952	17 January 1898	December 1971
40	Joseph C. Martin [15] [26] [27] [6]	1948	1949
39	Sherman T. Hickey, Jr. [28] [29] [30] [31] [6]	1948	1948	about 1907	28 August 1948
38	Gale H. Ross [32] [6]	1947	1948	abt 1892	22 February 1955
37	Charlie R. Barber [13] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [6]	1936	1947	19 April 1901	February 1987
36	James Patrick Rossiter [39] [40] [41] [6]	1932	1936	13 September 1890	26 September 1943
35	Joseph Crane Williams [13] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]	1924	1932	8 January 1877
34	Miles Brown Kitts [13] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54]	1916	1924	24 April 1880	27 May 1947
33	Bernard Veit [55]	1915*	1915*	8 October 1865	1915
32	William J. Stern [56] [57]	1911	1915	24 December 1863
31	Bernard Cochran	1910	1910
30	Michael Liebel, Jr. [13] [58]	1907	1911	12 December 1870	8 August 1927
29	Acting Mayor [59]	1906	1906
28	Robert J. Saltsman [60] [61] [6]	1905	1906	October 1874	August 1906
27	William Hardwick [6]	1902	1904
26	John Depinit [62] [63] [64]	1900	1901	November 1854
25	Robert J. Saltsman [65] [66] [67]	1896	1899	October 1874	August 1906
24	Walter Scott [68]	1893	1896
23	Charles S. Clarke [69]	1889	1893
22	John C. Brady [70] [71]	1887	1888	2 October 1858
21	Frank A. Mizener [72] [73] [74]	1886	1886	about 1845
20	Franklin Farrar Adams [75]	1885	1885	6 August 1830
19	Philip August Becker [76] [77] [78] [79]	1883	1884	10 April 1835	12 January 1888
18	Joseph McCarter [80]	1881	1882
17	David T. Jones [80]	1878	1880
16	Selden Marvin [80] [81] [82]	1877	1877	9 June 1819	25 December 1894
15	John W. Hammond [83] [84]	1876	1876
14	Henry Rawle [83] [85]	1874	1875	1 August 1833	7 December 1899
13	Charles M. Reed, Jr. [83] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90]	1872	1873	12 August 1844	1917
12	William L. Scott	1871	1871	2 July 1828	19 September 1891
11	Orange Noble [91] [92]	1867	1870
10	William L. Scott	1866	1866	2 July 1828	19 September 1891
9	F. F. Farrar [91] [93] [94] [95]	1865	1865	24 August 1822	28 April 1895
8	Prescott Metcalf [96] [97] [98]	1862	1864	about 1811	14 October 1891
7	Sherburn Smith [99] [100] [101] [102]	1859	1861
6	Wilson Laird [99]	1858	1858
5	James Hoskinson [99]	1857	1857
4	Wilson Laird [99] [103] [104]	1855	1856
3	Alfred King [105] [106] [107] [108] [109]	1853	1854
2	Murray Whallon [110]	1852	1852
1	Thomas G. Colt [110] [111]	1851	1851

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