List of mayors of Erie, Pennsylvania#Burgesses

From 1805 until 1850, the Borough of Erie was headed by a burgess. The title of mayor has been used since the City of Erie was incorporated on April 14, 1851.

• A mayor was inaugurated on the first Monday of April 1896.North Adams (Massachusetts) Transcript, April 7, 1896 Mayors were inaugurated on the first Monday of January 1916 and January 1924, with elections having been held the previous November.Bates 1884 2, p. 828{{cite book |last=Bates |first=Samuel P |title=History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |volume=1 |year=1884 |publisher=Warner, Beer's and Company |location=Chicago |pages=529}}
• At least two mayors died in office: Robert J. Saltsman (1906) and Sherman Hickey, Jr. (1948). One mayor-elect, Bernard Veit, died soon after his election in November 1915, before he could be inaugurated.
• Thomas W. Flatley was removed from office in 1954 in a gambling and bribery scandal. George J. Brabender served as acting mayor for less than a month, from December 14, 1954 until January 5, 1955, to fill Flatley's unexpired term.{{cite book |last=Carney |first=John G. |title=Highlights of Erie Politics |year=1960|pages=184}}
• Franklin F. Adams resigned in 1885. Frank A. Mizener completed his unexpired term.
• Bernard Cochran served as acting mayor from March to May 1910, covering the absence of Michael Liebel, Jr.
• The Abraham Lincoln funeral train stopped in Erie with Mayor F. F. Farrar aboard.{{Cite news |place=Syracuse, NY |newspaper=Syracuse Daily Courier and Union |date=April 29, 1865}} Mr. Lincoln made a pre-inaugural rail trip through nearby Girard, Pennsylvania on his way to Washington, D.C. from Illinois.
• Ralph W. Tilloston, twice the Socialist candidate for mayor of Erie, was convicted in United States District Court on March 20, 1919 of violation of the Espionage Act.Erie Socialist Is Convicted of Espionage Today, Warren (Pennsylvania) Evening Times, March 20, 1919
• Mario S. Bagnoni (April 2, 1922 – August 5, 2005) was named honorary Mayor of Erie for a day in June 2005. He served eight terms (32 years) on the Erie City Council and was five times elected president of the council. The Mario S. Bagnoni Council Chambers, located in Erie City Hall, were posthumously named in his honor in September 2005.[http://www.erie.pa.us/pdf/agenda_september_7_2005.pdf Erie City Council Agenda, September 7, 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928190529/http://www.erie.pa.us/pdf/agenda_september_7_2005.pdf |date=September 28, 2007 }} He made two attempts to become Erie mayor. He retired in 1971 as deputy chief of detectives for the Erie Police Department, which he had served since it was the Erie Bureau of Police in 1949. He is interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Fairview, Pennsylvania.

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• {{cite book |last=Bates |first=Samuel P |title=History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |volume=1 |year=1884

|publisher=Warner, Beer's and Company |location=Chicago}}

• {{cite book |last=Bates |first=Samuel P |title=History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |volume=2 |year=1884 |publisher=Warner, Beer's and Company |location=Chicago}}
• {{cite book |last=Miller |first=John |title=A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |location=Chicago |publisher=Lewis Publishing |year=1909 |volume=1}}
• {{cite book |last=Miller |first=John |title=A Twentieth Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |location=Chicago |publisher=Lewis Publishing |year=1909 |volume=2}}

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