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, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Pittsburgh. Prior to the 1816 city charter, the

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of Pittsburgh had its council elect a chief burgess among themselves. After the borough was rechartered as a city, its first seven mayors were selected in a similar fashion as the chief burgesses had been under borough council. It was not until Mayor Samuel Pettigrew in the 1830s that general elections of popular vote were conducted among all the city's voters to determine who would hold the mayor's office. Pettigrew was both the last mayor selected by council and the first generally elected mayor of Pittsburgh. From 1901 to 1903 the state legislature took control of the city on the grounds of corruption by former Mayor William J. Diehl with the passage of the so-called "ripper bill" and appointed the unelected "recorders" Joseph Brown and Adam Brown, who were answerable only to the state government. Since 1903, all mayors have been popularly elected. The mayor is

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Chief burgesses (1794–1813)

Mayors (since 1816)

† ''Died in office''; # ''Resigned from office'' ; ♥ ''Still living''

Longest tenures

*13 years (1946–1959) – David L. Lawrence *12 years (1994–2006) – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. *11 years and 1 month (1977–1988) – Richard Caliguiri *10 years and 1 month (1959–1970) – Joseph M. Barr *9 years and 3 months (1936–1946) – Cornelius D. Scully *8 years and 9 months (1909–1914, 1922–1926) – William A. Magee *8 years (2014–2022) – Bill Peduto *7 years and 11 months (1817–1825) – John Darragh *7 years and 4 months (2006–2014) – Luke Ravenstahl *7 years and >3 months (1970–1977) – Peter F. Flaherty *7 years and <3 months (1926–1933) – Charles H. Kline The listed terms are rounded to the nearest month.

Notes

References

Sources

* * Office of Prothonotary; Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Historic Pittsburgh Collection

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