Mayor_of_Erie,_Pennsylvania

List of mayors of Erie, Pennsylvania

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.

Erie City Hall houses the mayor's office.

Erie's city government consists of a mayor and a city council. The mayor's office includes an elected city treasurer and city controller. 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 only one term of two years until 1890, when it was then lengthened to three years during the second term of Charles S. Clarke.[2] After 1890, mayors were an unlimited number of terms. The most notable example of the unlimited number of terms was Mayor Louis J. Tullio who was in office for eight consecutive terms from 1966 to 1989.

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Burgesses

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 April 14, 1851.

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Notes

  • A mayor was inaugurated on the first Monday of April 1896.[42] Mayors were inaugurated on the first Monday of January 1916 and January 1924, with elections having been held the previous November.[10][43]
  • At least two mayors died in office: Robert J. Saltsman (1906) and Sherman Hickey, Jr. (1948). 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 December 14, 1954 until January 5, 1955, to fill Flatley's unexpired term.[4]
  • Franklin F. Adams resigned in 1885. Frank A. Mizener completed his unexpired term.[4]
  • Bernard Cochran served as acting mayor from March to May 1910, covering the absence of Michael Liebel, Jr.[4]
  • The Abraham Lincoln funeral train stopped in Erie with Mayor F. F. Farrar aboard.[44] 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 March 20, 1919 of violation of the Espionage Act.[45]
  • Mario S. Bagnoni (April 2, 1922 – August 5, 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.[46] 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.

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Bibliography

  • Bates, Samuel P (1884). History of Erie County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1. Chicago: Warner, Beer's and Company.
  • Bates, Samuel P (1884). History of Erie County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 2. Chicago: Warner, Beer's and Company.
  • Miller, John (1909). A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1. Chicago: Lewis Publishing.
  • Miller, John (1909). A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 2. Chicago: Lewis Publishing.
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