Borough president
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Borough President is an elective office in each of the five boroughs of New York City.
The offices of borough president were created in 1898 with the formation of the City of Greater New York. Prior to 1898, the city was conterminous with New York County. In 1898, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County) and Staten Island (Richmond County) were added to a city that had consisted exclusively of what is now Manhattan and the Bronx. To balance local authority along with the centralization of government, the Office of Borough President was established with a functional administrative role derived by having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use. The Board of Estimate consisted of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom were elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.
In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris declared the New York City Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that the city's most populous borough (Brooklyn) had no greater effective representation on the board than the city's least populous borough (Staten Island), this arrangement being an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision (Reynolds v. Sims). [1].
The city charter was revised in 1990 and the Board of Estimate was abolished. The Office of Borough President was retained but with greatly reduced power and budget which reverted to the mayor or the New York City Council. Post-1990, Borough Presidents have generally acted as advocates of their boroughs at the mayoral agencies, the city council, the New York state government, and corporations.
As of 2006, the borough presidents are:
- The Bronx : Adolfo Carrión Jr. (D)
- Brooklyn : Marty Markowitz (D)
- Manhattan : Scott Stringer (D)
- Queens : Helen Marshall (D)
- Staten Island : James Molinaro (R/C)
Contents |
[edit] List of Bronx Borough Presidents
- Louis F. Haffen 1898-1909
- John F. Murray 1909-10
- Cyrus C. Miller 1910-14
- Douglas Mathewson 1914-18
- Henry Bruckner 1918-34
- James J. Lyons 1934-62
- Joseph F. Periconi 1962-66
- Herman Badillo 1966-70
- Robert Abrams 1970-79
- Stanley Simon 1979-87
- Fernando Ferrer 1987-2002
- Adolfo Carrión Jr. 2002-
[edit] List of Brooklyn Borough Presidents
| # | Name | Party | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward M. Grout (unknown) | Democratic | 1898–1901 |
| 2 | Edward J. Swanstrom (unknown) | unknown | 1902-1903 |
| 3 | Martin W. Littleton (1872-1934) | Democratic | 1904–1905 |
| 4 | Bird S. Coler (1867-1941) | Democratic | 1906-1909 |
| 5 | Alfred E. Steers (unknown) | Democratic | 1910-1913 |
| 6 | Lewis H. Pounds (1861-?) | Republican | 1913-1917 |
| 7 | Edward J. Riegelmann (1870-1941) | Democratic | 1918-1924 |
| 8 | Joseph A. Guider (unknown) | Democratic | 1925-1926 |
| 9 | James J. Byrne (unknown) | Democratic | 1926-1930 |
| 10 | Henry Hesterberg (?-1950) | Democratic | 1930-1933 |
| 11 | Raymond V. Ingersoll (1875-1940) | Democratic | 1934-1940 |
| 12 | John Cashmore (1895-1961) | Democratic | 1940-1961 |
| 13 | John F. Hayes (1915-2001) | Democratic | 1961 |
| 14 | Abe Stark (1894-1972) | Democratic | 1962-1970 |
| 15 | Sebastian Leone (unknown) | Democratic | 1970–1976 |
| 16 | Howard Golden (unknown) | Democratic | 1977–2002 |
| 17 | Marty Markowitz (1945-) | Democratic | 2002– |
[edit] List of Manhattan Borough Presidents
| # | Name | Party | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Augustus Peters (unknown) | unknown | 1898-1899 |
| 2 | James J. Coogan (unknown) | unknown | 1899-1901 |
| 3 | Jacob A. Cantor (1854-1921) | Democratic | 1902–1903 |
| 4 | John Ahearn (1853-1920) | Democratic | 1904–1909 |
| 5 | John Cloughen (unknown) | unknown | 1909 |
| 6 | George McAneny (unknown) | unknown | 1910–1913 |
| 7 | Marcus M. Marks (1858-) | unknown | 1914–1917 |
| 8 | Frank Dowling (unknown) | unknown | 1918–1919 |
| 9 | Edward Boyle (unknown) | unknown | 1919 |
| 10 | Michael Loughman (unknown) | unknown | 1919 |
| 11 | Henry H. Curran (unknown) | unknown | 1920–1921 |
| 12 | Julius Miller (1880-1955) | Democratic | 1922–1930 |
| 13 | Samuel Levy (unknown) | Democratic | 1931–1937 |
| 14 | Stanley M. Isaacs (unknown) | Republican | 1938–1941 |
| 15 | Edgar J. Nathan (-1965) | Republican | 1942–1945 |
| 16 | Hugo Rogers (1899-1974) | Democratic | 1946–1949 |
| 17 | Robert F. Wagner, Jr. (1910-1991) | Democratic | 1950–1953 |
| 18 | Hulan E. Jack (1906-1986) | Democratic | 1954–1961 |
| 19 | Edward R. Dudley (1911-2005) | Democratic | 1961–1964 |
| 20 | Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) | Democratic | 1965–1966 |
| 21 | Percy E. Sutton (1920-) | Democratic | 1966–1977 |
| 22 | Andrew Stein (1945-) | Democratic | 1978–1985 |
| 23 | David N. Dinkins (1927-) | Democratic | 1986–1989 |
| 24 | Ruth Messinger (1941-) | Democratic | 1990–1997 |
| 25 | C. Virginia Fields (1946-) | Democratic | 1998–2005 |
| 26 | Scott Stringer (1960-) | Democratic | 2006– |
[edit] List of Queens Borough Presidents
- Frederick Bowley 1898-1901
- Joseph Cassidy 1902-05
- Joseph Bermel 1906-08
- Lawrence Gresser 1908-11
- Maurice E. Connolly 1911-28
- Bernard M. Patten 1928
- George U. Harvey 1929-41
- James A. Burke 1942-49
- Maurice A. FitzGerald 1950-51
- Joseph F. Mafera 1951
- James A. Lundy 1952-57
- James J. Crisona 1958-59
- John T. Clancy 1959-62
- Mario J. Cariello 1963-68
- Sidney Leviss 1969-71
- Donald Manes 1971-86
- Claire Shulman 1986-2001
- Helen M. Marshall 2002-
[edit] List of Richmond/Staten Island Borough Presidents
- George Cromwell 1898-1913
- Charles J. McCormack 1914-15
- Calvin D. Van Namee 1915-21
- Matthew J. Cahill 1922
- John A. Lynch 1922-33
- Joseph A. Palma 1934-45
- Cornelius A. Hall 1946-53
- Edward G. Baker 1953-54
- Albert V. Maniscalo 1955-65
- Robert T. Connor 1966-77
- Anthony Gaeta 1977-84
- Ralph J. Lamberti 1984-89
- Guy V. Molinari 1990-2001
- James Molinaro 2002-
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Cornell Law School Supreme Court Collection: Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, accessed June 12, 2006
