The Mayor is the chief executive of Bridgeport, Connecticut who is directly elected for a four-year term. They have the power to issue executive orders, declare emergencies, submit a yearly budget to the city council and makes appointments to city government offices.

As of July 2012, the Mayor of Bridgeport earns an annual salary of $132,459.

List of mayors Name In office Party Notes Reference Isaac Sherman 1836–1837 Bridgeport, Connecticut, The Political Graveyard.Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City Bridgeport of Connecticut (Vol. 2), Fairfield County Historical Society: 1886. Daniel Sterling 1837–1838 Alanson Hamlin 1838–1839 Charles Foote 1839 Charles Bostwick 1840 William Burrall 1841–1842? James Chaffee Loomis 1843–1844Democratic Henry Harral 1844–1847 Sherwood Sterling 1847–1849 Henry Harral 1849–1851 John Brooks 1851–1852 Henry Harral 1852–1853 Charles Hubbell 1853–1854 John Brook 1854–1855 Philo Calhoun 1855–1858DemocraticHistory of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), pp. 689–90.A. H. Saxon, P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man (Columbia University Press, 1989), p. 217. Silas Booth 1858–1860 Daniel Sterling 1860–1863 Clapp Spooner 1863–1864RepublicanAmerica's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 2 (ed. Henry Hall), 1896, p. 742. Jarratt Morford 1864–1865 Stillman Clapp 1865–1866 Monson Hawley 1866–1868 Jarratt Morford 1868–1869 Monson Hawley 1869–1870 Jarratt Morford 1870–1871 Epaphras Goodsell 1871–1874DemocraticMen of Progress, p. 145. Robert Clarke 1874–1875 History of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), pp. 607. Phineas Barnum 1875–1876 RepublicanSusan Nance, "Barnum, P.T. (1810–1891)" in American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History (ed. Gina Misiroglu), M.E. Sharpe: 2009, p. 63. Jarratt Morford 1876–1878 Robert De Forest 1878–1879DemocraticDaniel R. Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (University of Illinois Press, 19965), p. 41.Gerald W. McFarland, Mugwumps, Morals, & Politics, 1884–1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1975), pp. 66–67. John Wessells 1879–1880 Daniel Morgan 1880–1881DemocraticCommemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, p. 165. John Wessells 1881–1882 Carlos Curtis 1882–1883 John Wessells 1883–1884 Daniel Morgan 1884–1885 Henry Pyle 1885–1886 Civilion Fones 1886–1888 A dentist, his son Alfred Fones was also a dentistand a leader in early oral hygiene and education.Mary K. Witkowski, Bridgeport at Work (Arcadia Publishing, 2000), p. 88.Alyssa Picard, Making the American Mouth: Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century (Rutgers University Press, 2009), p. 36. Patrick Coughlin 1888–1889 Robert De Forest 1889–1891Democratic William Marigold 1891–1893 RepublicanMen of Progress, p. 389. Walter Bostwick 1893–1895 Frank Clark 1895–1897DemocraticHistory of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), p. 616. Thomas Taylor 1897–1899RepublicanRobert Coltrane, "Taylor, Thomas P." in A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, (Greenwood Press, 2003, ed. Keith Newlin), pp. 360–61. Hugh Stirling 1899–1901 Republican Denis Mulvihill 1901–1905DemocraticBannister Merwin, Our Own Times: A Continuous History of the Twentieth Century (Vol. 1), J. A. Hill: 1904. Bridgeport Mayors 1901–Present, City of Bridgeport. Marcus Reynolds 1905–1907 Henry Lee 1907–1909 1909–1911DemocraticCecelia Bucki, Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915–36 (University of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 96–97. Clifford Wilson 1911–1921RepublicanPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 25–26. Fred Atwater 1921–1923 DemocraticPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 26. William Behrens 1923–1929 RepublicanPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 29. Edward Buckingham 1929–1933Democratic Jasper McLevy 1933–1957SocialistPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 31–36, 45 Longest-serving mayor Samuel Tedesco 1957–1965DemocraticPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 46–49. Hugh Curran 1965–1971DemocraticPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 51–54. Nicholas Panuzio 1971–1975Republican Resigned toward the end of his second term to serve as deputy administratorof the General Services Administration in the Gerald Ford administration William Seres 1975Republican President of the Common Council who succeeded as mayor followingPanuzio's resignation; served 55 daysPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, p. 55. John C. Mandanici 1975–1981DemocraticPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 56–58. Lenny Paoletta 1981–1985RepublicanPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 66–70. Thomas Bucci 1985–1989DemocraticPeter F. Burns, Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics (SUNY Press, 2012), p. 15. Mary Moran 1989–1991Republican First and only woman to serve as Bridgeport mayor; last Republican to serve as Bridgeport mayor; unsuccessfully sought to have city declared insolvent in municipal bankruptcyPolitical Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 90–92.George Judson, U.S. Judge Blocks Bridgeport From Bankruptcy Court, New York Times (August 2, 1991).Nick Ravo, A Novice Reigns as Bridgeport Mayor, New York Times, November 15, 1989. Joe Ganim 1991–2003Democratic Second-longest serving Bridgeport mayor; was convicted onfederal corruption charges in 2003; spent seven years in prison.Political Corruption in Bridgeport, pp. 97–98, 102–03.Edmund H. Mahony, Joe Ganim: Is He Back?, Hartford Courant, January 12, 2015. John Fabrizi 2003–2007Democratic Did not run for a second term in 2007 after admitting to a drinking problemand use of cocaine while in office.Alison Leigh Cowan, Mayor of Scandal-Weary Bridgeport Admits That He Used Cocaine, New York Times, June 21, 2006.Brian Lockhart, Fabrizi exploring run for mayor, Connecticut Post, June 4, 2014. Bill Finch 2007–2015Democratic Defeated by Joseph P. Ganim during the Democratic primary in September 2015.Joseph De Avila, Ganim, Former Bridgeport Mayor Who Served Prison Time, Wins Primary, Wall Street Journal (September 17, 2015). Joe Ganim Democratic Second-longest serving Bridgeport mayor; was convicted onfederal corruption charges in 2003; spent seven years in prison; re-elected to office November 3, 2015; Ex-convict declares victory in Bridgeport mayor’s race WTNH (November 3, 2015). Sworn in on December 1, 2015.Associated Press, Ganim Sworn In As Bridgeport Mayor Five Years After Getting Out of Prison (December 1, 2015).

References Specific

General Rob Sullivan, Political Corruption in Bridgeport: Scandal in the Park City (The History Press 2014) History of Bridgeport and Vicinity (Vol. 2), S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.: 1917, pp. 689–90. Men of Progress: Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in and of the State of Connecticut] (ed. Richard Burton, 1898) p. 145. Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families (Higginson Book Co.: 1899). Charles Burr Todd, The History of Redding, Connecticut, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time (Grafton Press: 1906).