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- 1798
- Mayor: Joseph C. Yates (Democrat) (later Governor)
- 1808
- Mayor: John Yates (Democrat)
- 1810
- Mayor: Abraham Oathout (Federalist)
- 1811
- Mayor: John Yates (Democrat)
- 1813
- Mayor: Maus Schermerhorn (Federalist)
- 1817
- Mayor: Henry Yates, Jr. (Democrat)
- 1825
- Mayor: Isaac M. Schermerhorn (Federalist)
- 1826
- Mayor: David Boyd (Democrat)
- 1828
- Mayor: Isaac M. Schermerhorn (Federalist)
- 1831
- Mayor: Archibald L. Linn (Whig)
- 1836
- Mayor: John Isaac DeGraff (Democrat)
- 1837
- Mayor: Samuel W. Jones (Whig)
- 1839
- Mayor: Archibald L. Linn (Democrat)
- 1840
- Mayor: Alexander C. Gibson (Democrat)
- Recorder: Joshua D. Harman
- Aldermen
- First Ward: David Hearsey, Aaron B. Quackenbush, David Cady Smith, Richard Freeman
- Second Ward: William Cunningham, Abraham A. Van Vorst, Samuel Myers, Joseph Horsfall
- Third Ward: Casper F. Hoag, Absalom Earing, Francis Fisk, Joseph H. Vrooman
- Fourth Ward: James E. Van Horne, William Anderson, James Reagles, Andrew S. McPherson
- City Clerk: James Gilbert
- Treasurer: John Bt. Clute
- Police Justice: Jabez Ward
- Attorney: Theodoric R. Van Ingen
- Marshal: John D. Lyon
- Police Constable: Sela O. Durkee [variant spelling Selah?]
- City Printer: Abraham A. Keyser
- City Surveyor: Henry Ramsay
- Superintendent: Garrit Van Vranken
- Standing Committees:
- On Public Lands, Buildings and Other Public Property
- Messrs. Hearsey, Horsfall, Vrooman.
- On Public Markets
- Messrs, Fisk, Freeman, McPherson.
- On Claims and Accounts
- Messrs. Anderson, Myers, Cunningham.
- On Roads and Bridges
- (with power to perform the duties of Commissioners of Highways, as to the laying out, altering or discontinuing roads, subject to the approbation of the Board)
- Messrs. Van Horne, Earing, Freeman.
- On the Fire Department
- Messrs. Van Vorst, Reagles, Van Horne.
- On Lamps
- Messrs. Myers, Hearsey, Hoag.
- On Finance
- His Honor the Mayor, Messrs. Quackenbush, McPherson, Horsfall.
- On Laws
- His Honor the Mayor, His Honor the Recorder, Messrs. Smith, Hoag.
- Board of Magistrates
- Jabez Ward, Esq. and Messrs. Hearsey, Cunningham.
- Board of Health
- His Honor the Mayor, His Honor the Recorder, Messrs. Hearsey, McPherson, Hoag, Van Vorst.
- On Common Schools
- His Honor the Mayor, Messrs. Anderson, Smith, Fisk.
- Commissioners of Deeds
- Richard McMichael, Theodoric R. Van Ingen, David P. Forrest, Peter S.
Cochran, C. H. Peek.
- Other
- Extracted from the Judicial Department listings of the Officers of the
Government of the State of New York in the city directory:
- Alonzo C. Paige, Chancery Reporter, $500
- John Keyes Paige, Clerk Supreme Court, Albany, $2,500
- and for clerk hire, &c., $2,800
- 1842
- Mayor: John Isaac DeGraff (Whig)
- 1843
- Mayor: Alexander C. Gibson (Whig)
- 1845
- Mayor: John Isaac DeGraff (Whig)
- 1846
- 1848
- Mayor: James E. VanHorn (Democrat)
- 1850
- Mayor: Peter Rowe (Democrat)
- 1851
- Mayor: Mordecai Myers (Democrat)
- 1852
- Mayor: A. A. VanVoast (Democrat)
- 1854
- Mayor: Mordecai Myers (Whig)
- 1855
- Mayor: Casper F. Hoag (Democrat)
- 1855
- Mayor: Abel Smith (Democrat)
- 1857
- Mayor: Benjamin V. S. Vedder (Whig)
- 1858
- Mayor: Alex M. Vedder (Democrat)
- 1859
- Mayor: David P. Forest (Democrat)
- 1860
- Mayor: Benjamin F. Potter (Republican)
- 1861
- Mayor: Arthur W. Hunter (Republican)
- 1865
- Mayor: Andres McMullen (Republican)
- 1869
- Mayor: A. A. VanVoast (Democrat)
- 1871
- Mayor: William J. VanHorn (Democrat)
- 1873
- Mayor: Arthur W. Hunter (Democrat)
- 1875
- Mayor: Peter B. Yates (Republican)
- 1876
- Mayor: William Howes Smith (Democrat)
- 1879
- Mayor: Joseph P. Grahm (Democrat)
- 1881
- Mayor: A. A. VanVoast (Democrat)
- 1883
- Mayor: John Young (Republican)
- 1885
- Mayor: Henry S. DeForest (Democrat)
- 1887
- Mayor: T. Low Barhydt (Republican)
- 1889
- Mayor: Henry S. DeForest (Democrat)
- 1891
- Mayor: Everett Smith (Republican)
- 1893
- Mayor: Jacob W. Clute (Democrat)
- 1898
- Mayor: Charles C. Duryee (Republican)
- 1900
- Mayor: John H. White (Republican)
- 1902
- Mayor: H. S. VanVoast (Democrat)
- 1904
- Mayor: F. F. Eisenmenger (Democrat)
- 1906
- Mayor: Jacob W. Clute (Republican)
- 1908
- Mayor: Horace S. VanVoast (Democrat)
- 1910
- Mayor: Charles C. Duryee (Socialist)
- 1912
- Mayor: George R. Lunn (Democrat)
- 1914
- Mayor: J. Teller Schoolcraft (Democrat)
- 1916
- Mayor: George R. Lunn (Democrat)
- 1918
- Mayor: Charles A. Simon (Republican)
- 1920
- Mayor: George R. Lunn (Democrat)
- 1922
- Mayor: George R. Lunn (Democrat)
- 1923
- Mayor: C. A. Whitmire (Republican)
- 1924
- Mayor: William W. Campbell (Republican)
- 1926
- Mayor: A. T. Blessing (Republican)
- 1928
- Mayor: Henry C. Fagal (Republican)
- 1932
- Mayor: J. Ward White (Democrat)
- 1934
- Mayor: Henry C. Fagal (Republican)
- 1936
- Mayor: Robert W. Baxter (Republican)
- 1940
- Mayor: Mills Ten Eyck (Republican)
- 1948
- Mayor: Owen M. Begley (Democrat)
- 1951
- Mayor: Owen M. Begley (Democrat)
- 1952
- Mayor: Archibald Wemple (Republican)
- 1956
- Mayor: Samuel S. Stratton (Democrat) (later Congressman)
- 1959
- Mayor: Kenneth S. Sheldon (Republican)
- 1960
- Mayor: Malcolm E. Ellis (Republican)
- 1964
- Mayor: Malcolm E. Ellis (Republican)
- 1968
- Mayor: Malcolm E. Ellis (Republican)
- 1972
- Mayor: Frank J. Duci (Republican)
- 1976
- Mayor: Frank J. Duci (Republican)
- 1980
- Mayor: Frank J. Duci (Republican)
- 1984
- Mayor: Karen B. Johnson (Democrat)
- 1992
- Mayor: Frank J. Duci (Republican)
- 1993
- Mayor: Frank J. Duci (Republican)
- 1996
- Mayor: Albert P. Jurczynski (Republican)
- 2000
- Mayor: Albert P. Jurczynski (Republican)
- 2003
- Mayor: Brian U. Stratton (Democrat)
- 2007
- Mayor: Brian U. Stratton (Democrat)
- 2011
- Mayor: Gary R. McCarthy (Democrat)
Source: mostly from a list in Proceedings of the Council of the City of Schenectady 2001, plus the 1841 city directory.