List of Mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania


The Mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton. The current Mayor of Scranton is independent Paige Cognetti.
From 1866, mayors were elected by popular vote.

List of mayors of Scranton

MayorTermPolitical party
Elliot S.M. Hill1866–1869Democrat
William N. Monies1869–1872Republican
Mathew W. Loftus1872–1875Democrat
Robert H. McKune1875–1878Democrat
Terence Vincent Powderly1878-1884Greenback-Labor Party
Francis Allen Beamish1884–1886
Ezra H. Ripple1886–1890Republican
John H. Fellows1890–1893
William Lawrence Connell1893–1896
James G. Bailey1896–1899
James Moir1899–1901Republican
William Lawrence Connell1901–1903Republican
Alex T. Connell1903–1906
J. Benjamin Dimmick1906–1909Republican
John Von Bergen Jr.1909–1914Republican
Edmund B. Jermyn1914–1918
Alex T. Connell1918–1922
John F. Durkan1922–1926
Edmund B. Jermyn1926–1930
Fred K. Derby1930–1934
Stanley J. Davis1934–1938
Fred J. Huester1938–1942
Howard J. Snowdon1942–1946
James Thomas Hanlon1946–1962Democrat
William T. Schmidt1962–1966Republican
James J. Walsh1966–1970Democrat
Eugene J. Peters1970–1978Republican
Eugene F. Hickey1978–1982Democrat
James Barrett McNulty1982–1986Democrat
David J. Wenzel1986–1990Republican
Jim Connors1990–2002Republican
Democrat
Christopher Doherty2002 – January 6, 2014Democrat
Bill CourtrightJanuary 6, 2014 – July 1, 2019Democrat
Pat RoganJuly 2, 2019 - July 24, 2019Democrat
Wayne EvansJuly 25, 2019 - January 6, 2020Republican
Paige Gebhardt CognettiJanuary 6, 2020 - PresentIndependent