Borough Presidents of Brooklyn, 1897-2020(may beincomplete!)
EdwardM. Grout 1898-1901J.Edward Swanstrom 1902-03MartinW. Littleton 1904-05BirdS. Coler 1906-09AlfredE. Steers 1910-13LewisH. Pounds 1913-17EdwardJ. Riegelmann 1918-24JosephA. Guider 1925-26JamesJ. Byrne 1926-30HenryHesterberg 1930-33RaymondV. Ingersoll 1934-40JohnCashmore 1940-61JohnF. Hayes 1961AbeStark 1962-70SebastianLeone 1970-76HowardGolden 1977-2001MartyMarkowitz 2002-13EricL. Adams 2014- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1897 Nov 2:EdwardM. Grout (Dem & Jeffersonian Democratic), elected;FredericW. Hinrichs (Gold Democratic & Citizens Union), defeated;GeorgeH. Roberts, Jr. (Rep), defeated;BenjaminHanford (Socialist Labor), defeated;IsaacK. Funk (Prohibition), defeated;HenryNichols (United Democracy), defeated. 1901 Nov 5:J.Edward Swanstrom (Rep & Citizens Union), elected;EdmundH. Driggs (Dem), defeated;IsaacK. Funk (Prohibition), defeated;EberForbes (Socialist Labor), defeated;PeterJ. Flanagan (Social Democratic), defeated. 1903 Nov 3:MartinW. Littleton (Dem), elected;J.Edward Swanstrom (Rep & Citizens Union), defeated;CortesW. Cavanagh (Social Democratic), defeated;HenryA. Crumb (Socialist Labor), defeated;JohnBerry (Prohibition), defeated. 1905 Nov 7:BirdS. Coler (Municipal Ownership), elected;JamesW. Ridgway (Dem), defeated;FrederickH. E. Ebstein (Rep), defeated. 1909 Nov 2:JohnH. McCooey (Dem), defeated;AlfredE. Steers (Fusion), elected. 1913 Jul 2:AlfredE. Steers, resigned. 1913 Nov 4:LewisH. Pounds (Rep), elected;FrankMann (Dem), defeated;BernardJ. Riley (Socialist), defeated;JohnBerry (Prohibition), defeated. 1917 Sep 19:EdwardJ. Riegelmann (Dem), nominated;BirdS. Coler (Dem), defeated in primary;FrankJ. Prial (Dem), defeated in primary. 1917 Sep 19:LewisH. Pounds (Rep), nominated;RobertR. Lawson (Rep), defeated in primary. 1917 Nov 6:JohnMcKee (Prohibition), defeated;EdwardJ. Riegelmann (Dem), elected;LewisH. Pounds (Rep & Fusion), defeated;AlexanderFraser (Socialist), defeated;EdwardT. O'Loughlin (Ind), defeated. 1921 Sep 13:EdwardJ. Riegelmann (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1921 Sep 13:GeorgeW. Baker (Rep), nominated;HamiltonMacInnes (Rep), defeated in primary. 1921 Nov 8:EdwardJ. Riegelmann (Dem), elected;GeorgeW. Baker (Rep), defeated;WilliamW. Passage (Socialist), defeated;JacobA. Hartman, defeated. 1925 Sep 15:JosephA. Guider (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1925 Sep 15:WilliamStanley Miller (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1925 Sep 15:WilliamW. Passage (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1925 Nov 3:JosephA. Guider (Dem), elected;WilliamStanley Miller (Rep), defeated;WilliamW. Passage (Socialist), defeated. 1930 Mar 14:JamesJ. Byrne, died in office. 1930 Nov 4:HenryHesterberg (Dem), elected;ArthurV. McDermott (Rep), defeated;HarryW. Laidler (Socialist), defeated. 1933 Sep 19:HenryHesterberg (Dem), nominated;WilliamL. Love (Dem), defeated in primary;WilliamJ. Mackin (Dem), defeated in primary. 1933 Sep 19:RaymondV. Ingersoll (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1933 Sep 19:BaruchC. Vladeck (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1933 Nov 7:RaymondV. Ingersoll (Rep & City Fusion), elected;HenryHesterberg (Dem & Jeffersonian), defeated;JosephJ. Baker (Recovery & New Deal), defeated;BaruchC. Vladeck (Socialist), defeated;FredG. Biedenkapp (Communist), defeated;GeorgeDyson Friou (No Tammany), defeated. 1937 Sep 16:PhilipM. Kleinfeld (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1937 Sep 16:RaymondV. Ingersoll (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1937 Nov 2:RaymondV. Ingersoll (Rep & American Labor & City Fusion & Progressive),elected;PhilipM. Kleinfeld (Dem), defeated;DavidM. Cory (Socialist), defeated. 1940 Feb 24:RaymondV. Ingersoll, died in office. 1941 Nov 4:JohnCashmore (Dem), elected;MatthewJ. Troy (Rep & American Labor), defeated. 1945 Nov 6:JohnCashmore (Dem & American Labor), elected;GeorgeA. Arkwright (Rep & Liberal), defeated;JohnF. X. Masterson (Ind), defeated. 1949 Sep 6:JohnCashmore (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1949 Sep 6:AbeStark (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1949 Sep 6:AdaB. Jackson (American Labor), nominated unopposed. 1949 Sep 7:AbeStark (Liberal), nominated unopposed. 1949 Nov 8:JohnCashmore (Dem), elected;AbeStark (Rep & Liberal & City Fusion), defeated;AdaB. Jackson (American Labor), defeated. 1953:LewisW. Olliffe (Rep), defeated. 1953 Sep 15:JohnCashmore (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1953 Sep 15:JohnCashmore (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1953 Sep 15:SaulRudes (American Labor), nominated unopposed. 1953 Sep 15:JohnF. Kelly (Liberal), nominated unopposed. 1953 Nov 3:JohnCashmore (Dem & Rep), elected;JohnF. Kelly (Liberal & Ind), defeated;SaulRudes (American Labor), defeated. 1957 Sep 10:JohnCashmore (Dem), nominated;HarrisJ. Klein (Dem), defeated in primary. 1957 Sep 10:JohnCashmore (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1957 Sep 10:JohnCashmore (Liberal), nominated unopposed. 1957 Nov 5:JohnCashmore (Dem & Rep), elected unopposed. 1961 May 7:JohnCashmore, died in office. 1961 Nov 7:AbeStark (Dem), elected;FrancisE. Dorn (Rep & Civic Action), defeated;JacobT. Zukerman (Liberal), defeated. 1965 Nov 2:AbeStark (Dem), elected;LuigiR. Marano (Rep), defeated;GerardM. Weisberg (Liberal), defeated;LarsEkwurzel (Conservative), defeated. 1969 Jun 17:AbeStark (Dem), nominated;LeonardM. Simon (Dem), defeated in primary;WilliamA. Jones, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary;EugeneVictor (Dem), defeated in primary. 1969 Nov 4:AbeStark (Dem), elected;HenryShemin (Liberal), defeated;NicholasL. Savino (Rep), defeated;LeeS. Sterling (Conservative), defeated. 1970 Sep 8:AbeStark, resigned. 1973 Nov 6:SebastianLeone (Dem & City Fusion), elected;DonaldKennelly (Rep & Conservative), defeated;StephenJ. Solarz (Liberal), defeated;SamuelPerez (Communist), defeated;MaxineWilliams (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1977 Sep 8:FrankJ. Barbaro (Dem), defeated in primary. 1977 Nov 7:LeonF. Nadrowski (Rep), defeated. 1977 Nov 8:FrankJ. Barbaro (Liberal), defeated. 1981 Nov 3:LeonF. Nadrowski (Rep), defeated. 1985:MartyMarkowitz (Dem), defeated in primary. 2001:MartyMarkowitz (Dem), elected. 2005 Nov 8:MartyMarkowitz (Dem & Working Families), elected;TheodoreAlatsas (Rep & Conservative), defeated;GloriaMattera (Green), defeated;GaryS. Popkin (Libertarian & Reform), defeated. 2009 Nov 3:MartyMarkowitz (Dem & Working Families), elected;MarcL. D'Ottavio (Rep & Conservative), defeated;MichaelA. Sanchez (Libertarian), defeated. 2013 Nov 5:EricL. Adams (Dem), elected;EliasWeir (Conservative), defeated.
Mayors of Brooklyn, 1834-2017(may be incomplete!)
GeorgeHall 1834JonathanTrotter 1835-36JeremiahJohnson 1837-38CyrusP. Smith 1839-41HenryC. Murphy 1842JosephSprague 1843-44ThomasG. Talmadge 1845FrancisB. Stryker 1846-48EdwardCopeland 1849SamuelSmith 1850ConklinBrush 1851-52EdwardA. Lambert 1853-54GeorgeHall 1855-56SamuelS. Powell 1857-60MartinKalbfleisch 1861-63AlfredM. Wood 1864-65SamuelBooth 1866-67MartinKalbfleisch 1868-71SamuelS. Powell 1872-73JohnW. Hunter 1874-75FrederickA. Schroeder 1876-77JamesHowell 1878-81SethLow 1882-85DanielD. Whitney 1886-87AlfredC. Chapin 1888-91DavidA. Boody 1892-93CharlesA. Schieren 1894-95FrederickW. Wurster 1896-97 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1867:ArchibaldM. Bliss (Rep), defeated. 1879 Nov 4:JamesHowell (Dem), elected;FranklinWoodruff (Rep), defeated;JohnW. Flaherty (Independent Democratic), defeated. 1881 Nov 8:SethLow (Rep), elected;JamesHowell (Dem), defeated. 1883 Nov 6:SethLow (Rep), elected;JosephC. Hendrix (Dem), defeated. 1885 Nov 3:DanielD. Whitney (Dem), elected;IsaacS. Catlin (Rep), defeated;JohnB. Woodward (Ind), defeated. 1887 Nov 8:AlfredC. Chapin (Dem), elected;AndrewD. Baird (Rep), defeated. 1889 Nov 5:AlfredC. Chapin (Dem), elected;AndrewD. Baird (Rep), defeated. 1891 Nov 3:DavidA. Boody (Dem), elected;HenryA. Meyer (Rep), defeated;FrancisGerau (Socialist Labor), defeated;FreebornG. Smith (Prohibition), defeated. 1893 Nov 7:CharlesA. Schieren (Rep), elected;DavidA. Boody (Dem), defeated;JamesH. Ramsey (Prohibition), defeated. 1895 Nov 5:FrederickW. Wurster (Rep), elected;EdwardM. Grout (Dem), defeated;EdwardM. Shepard (Democratic Reform), defeated;CharlesH. Matchett (Socialist Labor), defeated;FreebornG. Smith (Prohibition), defeated;C.Edgar Smith (People's), defeated. 2017 Nov 7:EricL. Adams (Dem), elected.
Postmasters at Brooklyn, 1803-1970(may beincomplete!)
P.Buffit 1803-06JoelBunce 1806-19ThomasW. Birdsall 1819-21GeorgeL. Birch 1821-25ThomasKirk 1825-26ErastusWorthington 1826-31SamuelE. Clements 1831JosephMosier 1831-32AdrianHegeman 1832-41GeorgeHall 1841-45HenryC. Conkling 1845-49GoldS. Silliman 1849-53DanielVan Voorhis 1853-57WilliamH. Peck 1857-61GeorgeB. Lincoln 1861-66ThomasKinsella 1866-67SamuelH. Roberts 1867-68JosephM. Simonson 1868AnthonyF. Campbell 1868-69SamuelBooth 1869-73CharlesC. Talbot 1873-77JamesMcLeer 1877-86JosephC. Hendrix 1886-90AndrewD. Baird 1890GeorgeJ. Collins 1890-93AndrewT. Sullivan 1893-97FrancisH. Wilson 1897-1901GeorgeH. Roberts, Jr. 1901-10EdmundW. Voorhies 1910-14WilliamWoods 1914WilliamE. Kelly 1914-15WalterC. Burton 1915-16WalterC. Burton 1916-23PeterJ. Cleary 1923-24AlbertB. W. Firmin 1924-33JohnA. T. Carrougher 1933FrancisJ. Sinnott 1933-34FrancisJ. Sinnott 1934-39FrankJ. Quayle, Jr. 1939-40FrankJ. Quayle, Jr. 1940-45EdwardJ. Quigley 1945-46EdwardJ. Quigley 1946-70
(annexed to Brooklyn 1854)
Mayors of Williamsburgh, 1852-53(may beincomplete!)
AlvahG. Berry 1852WilliamWall 1853
Postmasters at Williamsburgh, 1836(may beincomplete!)
LewisSanford as of 1836
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Postmasters at Bay Ridge, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
WilliamWakefield as of 1881-87
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Postmasters at Canarsie, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
CharlesLehman as of 1881-82R.V. Remsen as of 1887
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Postmasters at East New York, 1881(may beincomplete!)
MilesA. Brown as of 1881
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Postmasters at Fort Hamilton, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
WilliamJ. Cropsey as of 1881A.M. Stillwell as of 1887
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Postmasters at Flatbush, 1816-87(may beincomplete!)
AbrahamVandeveer as of 1816GilbertHicks as of 1881JohnJ. Byrne as of 1887
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Postmasters at Flatlands, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
J.B. Hendrickson as of 1881J.Sheppard as of 1887
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Postmasters at Gravesend, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
RichardL. VanKleek as of 1881-87
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Postmasters at New Utrecht, 1881(may beincomplete!)
WilliamH. Wright as of 1881
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Postmasters at Parkville, 1881-87(may beincomplete!)
CharlesH. Severs as of 1881W.F. Stevenson as of 1887
U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Brooklyn, 1879-1951(may be incomplete!)
JamesFreeland as of 1879ErnstNathan as of 1891EdwardB. Jordan as of 1909JohnF. Quayle 1914-19HenryP. Keith as of 1917BertramGardner as of 1919WarrenG. Price as of 1927WalterE. Corwin as of 1932JosephD. Nunan, Jr. as of 1941JosephP. Marcelle as of 1946-51 | |
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