List of mayors of Bangor, Maine

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The following is a list of mayors of the city of Bangor, Maine, United States.

Bangor City Hall building, Maine, 2014
  • Allen Gilman, 1834–1835[1]
  • Edward Kent, 1836–1837[1]
  • Rufus Dwinel, 1838[1]
  • J. Wingate Carr, 1839–1840[1]
  • Bradford Harlow, 1841–1843[1]
  • Jacob Drummond, 1844[1]
  • Joseph Bryant, 1845–1846[1]
  • Charles Hayward, 1847[1]
  • William Abbott, 1848–1849[1]
  • William H. Mills, 1850[1]
  • Elijah Hamlin, 1851–1852[1]
  • George W Pickering, 1853–1854[1]
  • John T. K. Hayward, 1855[1]
  • Hollis Bowman, 1856–1858[1]
  • Isaiah Stetson, 1859–1862[1][2]
  • Samuel H. Dale, 1863–1865[1]
  • Albert O. Wakefield, 1866–1867[1]
  • Augustus D. Manson, 1868[1]
  • Samuel D. Thurston, 1869[1]
  • Henry E. Prentiss, 1870[1]
  • Samuel H. Dale, 1871[1]
  • Jos. S. Wheelwright, 1872[1]
  • Joseph P. Bass, 1873[1]
  • Newell Blake, 1874[1]
  • Fred'k M. Laughton, 1875[1]
  • William B. Hayford, 1876[1]
  • Augustus C. Hamlin, 1877–1878[1]
  • William H. Brown, 1879–1880[1]
  • Lysander Strickland, 1881–1882[1]
  • Fred'k A. Cummings, 1883[1]
  • Samuel F. Humphrey, 1884[1]
  • Edward B. Nealley, 1885–1886[1]
  • Charles F. Bragg, 1887–1889[1]
  • Edward H. Blake, 1890[1]
  • Joseph F. Snow, 1891[1]
  • Flavius O. Beal, 1892–1894, 1896–1898, 1903–1904, 1913[1]
  • Chas. L. Snow, 1895[1]
  • Arthur Chapin, 1899–1901[1]
  • William Engel, 1902[1]
  • William B. Peirce, 1905–1906[1]
  • John F. Woodman, 1907–1910, 1916–1919[1][3]
  • Charles W. Mullen, 1911–1912[1]
  • John G. Utterback, 1914[1]
  • Frank Robinson, 1915[1]
  • Jarvis B. Woods, c. 1920–21[4]
  • Albert R. Day, c. 1922–1923[4]
  • Charles D. Crosby, c. 1924–1926[4]
  • John Wilson, c. 1927–1929[4]
  • Benjamin W. Blanchard, c. 1930[4]
  • Norman E. Whitney, c. 1931[4]
  • John Flaherty, c. 1953[4]
  • William S. Cohen, 1971–1972[4]
  • Tom Sawyer, 1989
  • John Cashwell, c. 2006[5]
  • Nichi Farnham, c. 2007
  • Richard Stone, c. 2009–2010[6]
  • Cary Weston, 2011–2012
  • Nelson Durgin, 2012–2013[7]
  • Nelson Durgin, 2014–2015[8]
  • Sarah Nichols, c. 2018- 2019[9]
  • Clare Davitt c. 2019 - 2020[10]
  • Cara Pelletier, c. 2023–present[11]

See also

References

  1. "Mayors of Bangor, 1834–1919", 1919 Directory of Bangor and Brewer, Bangor: Cannon & Co. – via Internet Archive
  2. Bangor directory, Bangor: Samual S. Smith, 1859 – via HathiTrust
  3. 1907 Directory of Bangor and Brewer, Bangor: Cannon & Co – via HathiTrust
  4. Lawrence Kestenbaum (ed.), "Bangor, Maine", Political Graveyard, retrieved September 21, 2024, Mayors of Bangor, 1834–1972
  5. "City Government: Council Bios", bangormaine.gov, archived from the original on February 17, 2006 – via Wayback Machine
  6. "City Government: Council Bios", bangormaine.gov, archived from the original on May 27, 2010 – via Wayback Machine
  7. https://www.bangordailynews.com/2020/09/14/bangor/maj-gen-nelson-durgin-former-bangor-city-council-chair-dies-at-83/
  8. https://www.bangordailynews.com/2020/09/14/bangor/maj-gen-nelson-durgin-former-bangor-city-council-chair-dies-at-83/
  9. "Staff Directory", bangormaine.gov, archived from the original on November 2, 2019 – via Wayback Machine
  10. Eichacker, Charles (November 13, 2019). "With new majority of women, Bangor council selects Clare Davitt as next chair". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved August 7, 2025.
  11. "City Council", bangormaine.gov, retrieved September 21, 2024, Council Chair serves as Mayor

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