Borough president

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 (Manhattan) and the Bronx. To balance local authority along with the centeralization of government, the office of Borough President was established with a real administrative role derived by having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate which created and approved the city's budget and proposals for land use.

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:

List of Bronx Borough Presidents

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–

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–

List of Bronx Borough Presidents

List of Brooklyn Borough Presidents

List of Manhattan Borough Presidents

List of Queens Borough Presidents

List of Richmond/Staten Island Borough Presidents

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List of Bronx Borough Presidents

List of Brooklyn Borough Presidents

List of Manhattan Borough Presidents

List of Queens Borough Presidents

List of Richmond/Staten Island Borough Presidents

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