Mayors of Philadelphia, 1691-2020(may beincomplete!)
HumphreyMorrey 1691-1701EdwardShippen 1701-03AnthonyMorris 1703-04GriffithJones 1704-05JosephWillcox 1705-06NathanStanbury 1706-07ThomasMasters 1707-09RichardHill 1709-10WilliamCarter 1710-11SamuelPreston 1711-12JonathanDickinson 1712-13GeorgeRoche 1713-14RichardHill 1714-17JonathanDickinson 1717-19WilliamFishbourne 1719-22JamesLogan 1722-23ClementPlumsted 1723-24IsaacNorris 1724-25WilliamHudson 1725-26CharlesRead 1726-28ThomasLawrence 1728-29ThomasGriffitts 1729-31SamuelHasell 1731-33ThomasGriffitts 1733-34ThomasLawrence 1734-35WilliamAllen 1735-36ClementPlumsted 1736-37ThomasGriffitts 1737-38AnthonyMorris 1738-39EdwardRoberts 1739-40SamuelHasell 1740-41ClementPlumsted 1741-42WilliamTill 1742-43BenjaminShoemaker 1743-44EdwardShippen 1744-45JamesHamilton 1745-46WilliamAttwood 1746-48CharlesWilling 1748-49ThomasLawrence 1749-50WilliamPlumsted 1750-51RobertStrettell 1751-52BenjaminShoemaker 1752-53ThomasLawrence 1753-54CharlesWilling 1754WilliamPlumsted 1754-56AttwoodShute 1756-58ThomasLawrence 1758-59JohnStamper 1759-60BenjaminShoemaker 1760-61JacobDuché 1761-62HenryHarrison 1762-63ThomasWilling 1763-64ThomasLawrence 1764-65JohnLawrence 1765-67IsaacJones 1767-69SamuelShoemaker 1769-71JohnGibson 1771-73WilliamFisher 1773-74SamuelRhoads 1774-75SamuelPowel 1775-76SamuelPowel 1789-90SamuelMiles 1790-91JohnBarclay 1791-92MatthewClarkson 1792-96HilaryBaker 1796-98RobertWharton 1798-1800JohnInskeep 1800-01MatthewLawler 1801-05JohnInskeep 1805-06RobertWharton 1806-08JohnBarker 1808-10RobertWharton 1810-11MichaelKeppele 1811-12JohnBarker 1812-13JohnGeyer 1813-14RobertWharton 1814-19JamesNelson Barker 1819-20RobertWharton 1820-24JosephWatson 1824-28GeorgeM. Dallas 1828-29BenjaminWood Richards 1829WilliamMilnor 1829-30BenjaminWood Richards 1830-32JohnSwift 1832-38IsaacRoach 1838-39JohnSwift 1839-41JohnMorin Scott 1841-44PeterMcCall 1844-45JohnSwift 1845-49JoelJones 1849-50CharlesGilpin 1850-54RobertTaylor Conrad 1854-56RichardVaux 1856-58AlexanderHenry 1858-65MortonMcMichael 1866-68DanielFox 1869-71WilliamS. Stokley 1872-81SamuelKing 1881-84WilliamBurns Smith 1884-87EdwinH. Fitler 1887-91EdwinS. Stuart 1891-95CharlesFranklin Warwick 1895-99SamuelH. Ashbridge 1899-1903JohnWeaver 1903-07JohnE. Reyburn 1907-11RudolphBlankenburg 1911-16ThomasB. Smith 1916-20J.Hampton Moore 1920-24W.Freeland Kendrick 1924-28HarryA. Mackey 1928-32J.Hampton Moore 1932-36S.Davis Wilson 1936-39GeorgeConnell 1939RobertE. Lamberton 1940-41BernardSamuel 1941-52JosephS. Clark, Jr. 1952-56RichardsonK. Dilworth 1956-62JamesH. J. Tate 1962-72FrankL. Rizzo 1972-80WilliamJ. Green III 1980-84W.Wilson Goode 1984-92EdRendell 1992-2000JohnF. Street 2000-08MichaelA. Nutter 2008-16JimKenney 2016- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1754 Nov 30:CharlesWilling, died in office. 1798 Sep 25:HilaryBaker, died in office. 1854:RobertTaylor Conrad (Whig), elected;RichardVaux (Dem), defeated. 1856:RichardVaux (Dem), elected;HenryD. Moore, defeated. 1858:AlexanderHenry, elected;RichardVaux (Dem), defeated. 1860:AlexanderHenry (Rep), elected;JohnRobbins (Dem), defeated. 1862:DanielFox (Dem), defeated;AlexanderHenry (Rep), elected. 1865:MortonMcMichael (Rep), elected;DanielFox (Dem), defeated. 1868:DanielFox (Dem), elected;HectorTynsdale (Rep), defeated. 1871:WilliamS. Stokley (Rep), elected;JamesS. Biddle (Dem), defeated. 1874:WilliamS. Stokley (Rep), elected;AlexanderK. McClure, defeated. 1877:WilliamS. Stokley (Rep), elected;JosephL. Caven, defeated. 1881:SamuelKing, elected;WilliamS. Stokley (Rep), defeated;A.C. Baird (Greenback), defeated. 1884:WilliamBurns Smith (Rep), elected;SamuelKing, defeated. 1887 Feb 15:EdwinH. Fitler (Rep), elected;Georgede Benneville Keim (Dem), defeated;Phillips(Labor), defeated. 1891:AlbertH. Lardner (Dem), defeated;EdwinS. Stuart (Rep), elected. 1895:CharlesFranklin Warwick (Rep), elected;RobertE. Pattison (Dem), defeated. 1899 Feb 21:SamuelH. Ashbridge (Rep), elected;W.Horace Hoskins (Dem), defeated;L.L. Eavenson (Prohibition), defeated;Bryan(People's), defeated;Hetzel(Single Tax), defeated. 1903:JohnWeaver (Rep), elected;HowardH. Caldwell (Socialist), defeated;AlfredD. Calvert (Prohibition), defeated;FrancisF. Kane (Dem), defeated. 1907 Jan 26:JohnE. Reyburn (Rep), nominated;JohnM. Walton (Rep), defeated in primary. 1907 Feb 19:JohnE. Reyburn (Rep & Jeffersonian), elected;WilliamPotter (City & Dem), defeated;CharlesSehl (Socialist), defeated;L.L. Eavenson (Prohibition), defeated. 1911:WilliamS. Vare, defeated for nomination;RudolphBlankenburg, elected;GeorgeH. Earle, Jr. (Rep), defeated. 1915:B.Gordon Bromley (Dem), defeated;GeorgeD. Porter, defeated;ThomasB. Smith (Rep), elected. 1919:J.Hampton Moore (Rep), elected;HarryWescott (Dem), defeated;JosephS. McLaughlin (Charterite), defeated;CharlesJ. Bauer (Socialist), defeated. 1923 Nov 6:W.Freeland Kendrick (Rep), elected;A.Raymond Raff (Dem), defeated;FredHodgson (Socialist), defeated;PowellEvans (Prohibition & Progressive), defeated;FrederickE. Mayer (Single Tax), defeated. 1927 Nov 8:HarryA. Mackey (Rep), elected;J.Hampton Moore (Citizens), defeated;ThomasA. Logue (Dem), defeated;JosephS. McLaughlin (Charterite), defeated. 1931 Nov 3:J.Hampton Moore (Rep), elected;MichaelDonohoe (Dem), defeated. 1935 Nov 5:S.Davis Wilson (Rep), elected;JohnB. Kelly (Dem), defeated. 1939 Aug 19:S.Davis Wilson, died in office. 1939 Nov 7:RobertE. Lamberton (Rep), elected;RobertC. White (Dem), defeated. 1941 Aug 22:RobertE. Lamberton, died in office. 1943:BernardSamuel (Rep), elected;WilliamC. Bullitt (Dem), defeated. 1947:RichardsonK. Dilworth (Dem), defeated;BernardSamuel (Rep), elected. 1951:DanielA. Poling (Rep), defeated;JosephS. Clark, Jr. (Dem), elected. 1955 Nov 8:RichardsonK. Dilworth (Dem), elected;W.Thacher Longstreth (Rep), defeated. 1959:HaroldE. Stassen (Rep), defeated;RichardsonK. Dilworth (Dem), elected. 1962 Feb 12:RichardsonK. Dilworth, resigned. 1963:JamesT. McDermott (Rep), defeated;JamesH. J. Tate (Dem), elected. 1967:AlexanderHemphill (Dem), defeated in primary. 1967:JosephJ. Frieri (Constitution), defeated;ArlenSpecter (Rep), defeated;JamesH. J. Tate (Dem), elected. 1971:WilliamJ. Green III (Dem), defeated in primary;DavidB. Cohen (Dem), defeated in primary. 1971:FrankL. Rizzo (Dem), elected;JosephJ. Frieri (Constitution), defeated;W.Thacher Longstreth (Rep), defeated. 1975:ThomasM. Foglietta (Rep), defeated;FrankL. Rizzo (Dem), elected;CharlesW. Bowser, defeated. 1979:CharlesW. Bowser (Dem), defeated in primary. 1979:WilliamJ. Green III (Dem), elected;LucienE. Blackwell (Consumer), defeated;DavidW. Marston (Rep), defeated. 1983:FrankL. Rizzo (Dem), defeated in primary. 1983:CharlesF. Dougherty (Rep), defeated in primary;TomGola (Rep), defeated in primary. 1983 Nov 8:W.Wilson Goode, elected;JohnEgan (Rep), defeated;ThomasA. Leonard, defeated. 1987:EdRendell (Dem), defeated in primary. 1987:JohnJ. Egan, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary. 1987 Nov 3:W.Wilson Goode (Dem), elected;FrankL. Rizzo (Rep), defeated;RichardGaeta (Consumer), defeated. 1991:LucienE. Blackwell (Dem), defeated in primary. 1991:SamuelP. Katz (Rep), defeated in primary;FrankL. Rizzo (Rep), nominated, but died before the election;RonCastille (Rep), defeated in primary. 1991 Nov 5:EdRendell (Dem), elected;JosephM. Egan, Jr. (Rep), defeated;DennisWesley (New Philadelphia), defeated. 1995 Nov 7:EdRendell (Dem), elected;M.Joseph Rocks (Rep), defeated;LanceS. Haver (Consumer), defeated. 1999 May 18:JohnF. Street (Dem), nominated;MartyWeinberg (Dem), defeated in primary;JohnWhite, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary;HappyFernandez (Dem), defeated in primary;DwightE. Evans (Dem), defeated in primary;QueenaR. Bass (Dem), defeated in primary. 1999 May 18:SamuelP. Katz (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1999 Nov 2:JohnF. Street (Dem), elected;SamuelP. Katz (Rep), defeated;JohnP. McDermott (Constitution), defeated. 2007 May 15:MichaelA. Nutter (Dem), nominated;TomKnox (Dem), defeated in primary;RobertA. Brady (Dem), defeated in primary;ChakaFattah (Dem), defeated in primary;DwightE. Evans (Dem), defeated in primary;QueenaR. Bass (Dem), defeated in primary;JesusWhite (Dem), defeated in primary. 2007 May 15:AlTaubenberger (Rep), nominated unopposed. 2007 Nov 6:MichaelA. Nutter (Dem), elected;AlTaubenberger (Rep), defeated;JohnStaggs (Socialist Workers), defeated. 2015:LynneAbraham, defeated. 2015 May 19:JimKenney (Dem), nominated. 2015 Nov 3:JimKenney (Dem), elected.
Postmasters at Philadelphia, 1782-1969(may beincomplete!)
JamesBryson 1782-89RobertPatton 1789-1814MichaelLeib 1814-15RichardBache 1815-28ThomasSergeant 1828-33JamesPage 1833-41JohnC. Montgomery 1841-44JamesHoy, Jr. 1844-45GeorgeF. Lehman 1845-49WilliamJ. P. White 1849-53JohnMiller 1853-57GideonG. Westcott 1857-59NathanielB. Browne 1859-61CorneliusA. Walborn 1861-66CharlesM. Hall 1866-67HenryH. Bingham 1867-72GeorgeW. Fairman 1872-76A.Loudon Snowden 1876-79JohnF. Hartranft 1879-80HenryS. Huidekoper 1880-85WilliamF. Harrity 1885-89JohnField 1889-93WilliamW. Carr 1893-97ThomasL. Hicks 1897-1901ClaytonMcMichael 1901-06RichardL. Ashhurst 1906-11ThomasB. Smith 1911ThomasB. Smith 1911-13JohnA. Thornton 1913-21GeorgeE. Kemp 1922GeorgeE. Kemp 1922-29ThomasMcLeister 1929-30ThomasMcLeister 1930-32JohnJ. Mack 1932JohnJ. Mack 1932-34JosephF. Gallagher 1934-35JosephF. Gallagher 1935-49RaymondA. Thomas 1949RaymondA. Thomas 1949-59RodGreen 1959FredericH. Barth 1959-61AnthonyI. Lambert 1961AnthonyI. Lambert 1961-69
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Mayors of Northern Liberties, 1836-54(may beincomplete!)
JohnConrad 1836-40EdwardD. Corfield 1840JohnM. Cannon 1840-44JohnF. Belsterling 1844-49WilliamWilkinson 1849-51GeorgeM. Howell 1851-54
Collectors of Customs at Philadelphia, 1789-1951(may beincomplete!)
SharpDelany 1789-98GeorgeLatimer 1798-1802JohnPeter Gabriel Muhlenberg 1802-07JohnShee 1807-09JohnSteele 1809-27WilliamJones 1827-29JamesNelson Barker 1829-38GeorgeWolf 1838-40JonathanRoberts 1840-42ThomasS. Smith 1842-43CalvinBlythe 1843-45HenryHorn 1845-46JamesPage 1846-49WilliamD. Lewis 1849-53CharlesBrown 1853-57JosephB. Baker 1857-61WilliamB. Thomas 1861-66WilliamF. Johnston 1866-67HenryWells Tracy as of 1866JosephW. Cake 1867-69HenryD. Moore 1869-70JohnW. Forney 1870-72SethI. Comly 1872-76AlexanderP. Tutton 1876-80JohnF. Hartranft 1880-83ThomasV. Cooper as of 1891ChesterW. Hill as of 1909WilliamH. Berry as of 1917A.Lincoln Acker 1922-32A.Raymond Raff 1935-47MichaelJ. Bradley as of 1951 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1840 Mar 11:GeorgeWolf, died in office. 1947 Dec 10:A.Raymond Raff, died in office.
Surveyors of Customs at Philadelphia, 1789-1927(may beincomplete!)
WilliamMacpherson 1789-93WalterStewart 1793-96WilliamJackson 1796-1803WilliamBache 1803-14JamesGlentworth 1814-29WilliamDuncan 1829-38GeorgeW. Riter 1838-41J.Washington Tyson 1841JohnG. Watmough 1841-44ThomasA. Cooper 1844-45JohnDavis 1845-48WilliamB. Norris 1849-53ReubenCharles Hale 1853-57JohnHamilton, Jr. 1857-61E.Reed Myer 1861-67WilliamHarbeson 1867-69E.O'Meara Goodrich 1869-81E.O'M. Goodrich as of 1881EdwinH. Nevin, Jr. 1881-83GeorgeF. Leland 1883-84JohnJ. Ridgway as of 1891PerryM. Lytle as of 1909CharlesR. Kurtz as of 1917JamesE. Rininger as of 1927 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1881 Jan 28:E.O'Meara Goodrich, died in office.
U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Philadelphia, 1867-1951(may be incomplete!)
CharlesAbel as of 1867HoratioG. Sickel 1869-71JamesAshworth as of 1879WilliamH. Brooks as of 1891WilliamMcCoach as of 1909EphraimLederer as of 1917-19BlakelyD. McCaughn as of 1927AlbertH. Ladner as of 1932WalterJ. Rothensies as of 1941FrancisR. Smith as of 1946-51 | |
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