List of Mayors of the Village of Saugerties
| Term | Name | Political Party | Notes | Image |
| 1831-1832 | Henry Barclay | Party? | A businessman from a Loyalist family from New York City. He financed the building of the dam on the Esopus Creek and harnessed its water power for ironworking and paper manufacturing. Barclay Heights, the neighborhood directly south of the Village, is named for him. |  |
| 1832-1833 | Henry P Heermans | Party? | Notes? | Image? |
| 1833-1834 | Russell Bradley | Party? | Notes? | Image? |
| 1834-1839 | John V L Overbagh | Whig | First president of the Bank of Ulster, which later became the First National Bank of Saugerties (Source). He also represented Ulster County in the New York State Assembly in 1840. |  |
| 1839-1841 | Jeremiah Russell | Democratic | Held many a political office in his time, including that of US Congressman from 1843 to 1845. |  |
| ? | Unknown | Party? | At this time, the Presidents of the Village of Ulster from 1841-1848 are not known to me. | Image? |
| 1849-1850 | Peter D. Schoonmaker | Party? | Elected by the Board of Trustees on June 6, 1849. Source: The Saugerties Telegraph, June 9 1849, In column titled "City Items". | Image? |
| ? | Unknown | Party? | At this time, the Presidents of the Village of Ulster from 1851-1855 are not known to me. I have found a reference to Fordyce L. Laflin and James Russell being President in 1851 (perhaps one till that year's election and the other after?). | Image? |
| Term | Name | Political Party | Notes | Image |
| 1855 | David Van Buskirk | Image? | ||
| 1856 | John Vedder | A doctor and president of the New York State Anti-Vivisection Society. The photograph seems to have been taken later in his life; it is from a card he sent out on his 84th birthday in 1899. |  | |
| 1857 | Cornelius Battelle | Active in the Trinity Church, ultimately moved to Washington, D.C. for a time. | Image? | |
| 1858 | Solomon Cone | Was a preacher at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also worked as a lawyer. | Image? | |
| 1859 | William C. DeWitt | Worked as a physician. The portrait seen here is atributed to Ammi Philips. (Source, p. 59) |  | |
| 1860 | Samuel Merclean | Image? | ||
| 1861 | Cornelius Battelle | See above. | Image? | |
| 1862-1863 | John Vedder | See above. | | |
| 1863 | William Fiero Russell | Democratic | Filling in the remainder of John Vedder's term. |  |
| 1864 | Egbert Cooper | Democratic | Image? | |
| 1865-1866 | William Hanna | Image? | ||
| 1867 | Henry D. Laflin | Brother of Fordyce L. Laflin. |  | |
| 1868 | William E. Kipp | Image? | ||
| 1869 | Joseph Smith | Image? | ||
| 1870-1871 | Moses Krohn | Democratic | After Saugerties, went to Cincinatti and Dayton, Ohio where he was very involved in the cigar business. Image source: "The Tobacco World" magazine. |  |
| 1872 | James Maines | Image? | ||
| 1873 | Thomas Maxwell | Republican | Involved in the bluestone business. |  |
| 1874 | Egbert Cooper | Democratic | Died in France while on vacation. | Image? |
| 1875 | Benjamin M. Freligh | Republican | Represented Ulster County in the 109th New York State Assembly in 1886. | Image? |
| 1876-1877 | William Fiero Russell | Democratic | Son of Jeremiah Russell, he followed his father's footsteps and served as a US Congressman. | |
| 1878 | William R. Sheffield | Republican |  | |
| 1879 | Robert A. Snyder | Republican |  | |
| 1880 | James A. James |  | ||
| 1881 | Seaman G. Searing | Democratic | Represented Ulster County in the 1878 New York Assembly. Also served as Town Supervisor in 1858 and 1877-1878. |  |
| 1882 | Thomas S. Dawes | Demcoratic | A Massachusetts native (and brother of Senator Henry L. Dawes of that state), he came to New York and studied medicine in Coxsackie. He settled in Saugerties, where he worked as a physician for 44 years, and served in many political positions locally, and also on the State Board of Health. He is remembered as a staunch Republican by many sources, including The Pearl, however he was sometimes elected on the Democratic ticket. |  |
| 1883 | Ovid T. Simmons | Democratic | Sometimes called "Captain" for his work on Hudson River sloops. | |
| 1884 | Thomas S. Dawes | Democratic | See above. | |
| 1885 | George Seamon | Together with his brother John, operated the Seamon Brothers Funeral Home, which also sold furniture. In 1907, John Seamon bought and donated the land that is now Seamon Park to the Village. Fun Fact: The land used to belong to former Town Supervisor Egbert Cooper. |  | |
| 1886-1887 | Benjamin M. Coon | Republican | Ran for Justice of the Peace in the 1875 election, and was defeated. |  |
| 1888-1891 | William R. Sheffield | Republican | Resigned November 12, 1891. | |
| 1892 | James H. Van Keuren | Republican | ||
| 1893 | Marcellus H. Wygant | Republican | As a young man, he fought for the Union in the Civil War (the photograph here depicts him during this time). His interesting encounter with Confederate Brigadier General William Barksdale is recounted here. He later practiced dentistry. |  |
| 1894 | Norman Cunyes | Democratic | A mason and contractor, he died while visiting a friend in Woodstock in 1916. |  |
| 1895 | Ovid T. Simmons | Democratic | See above. | |
| 1897-1898 | Martin Cantine | Republican | Owner of the Martin Cantine Paper Company, which operated on the Esopus Creek. In 1938, he donated a 31-acre property to the Town of Saugerties which became Cantine Field. |  |
| 1898-1899 | Alfred P. Lasher | Republican | Lasher was born in Coxsackie, and started his career as a shipping clerk for John Maxwell in Malden. Also served as president of the library and director of the First National Bank of Saugerties. (Biographical information from "The History of Ulster County, New York" by Clearwater, p. 637.) |  |
| 1899-1900 | Richard S. Gibson | In 1888, Gibson received the most votes in the village election for Director, First Ward - however, he did not actually reside in the first ward. In the 1888 New York State Supreme Court Case Gibson v. Sheffield, the court ruled that despite receiving the most votes, he could not be elected to the office. Gibson died on June 16th, 1922. | ||
| 1900-1901 | William Ziegler | Party? | Owner of the popular restaurant Ziegler's Cafe. In more recent times, this space has hosted the DIG clothing store and the Windmill wine shop, but the bar of Ziegler's Cafe still stands. |  |
| 1901-1912 | Albert Rowe | Republican | The first person to serve in this office for more than three consecutive years. At different times, he worked in the farming, stone cutting, meat packing industries. |  |
| 1913-1923 | William Ziegler | Party? | See above. | |
| 1923-1927 | Mervin Gillespy | Image? | ||
| 1927-1931 | Mervin Gillespy | Union-Citizens Party | The first to serve under the new New York State Village Law, which changed the title to "Mayor". | Image? |
| 1931-1933 | W. Hoyt Overbagh | Union-Citizens Party | Great-grandson of John V.L. Overbagh. |  |
| 1933-1937 | Myron Bedell | Citizen's Protective Party | Originally from Greene County, Myron Bedell was a grocer by trade. Outside of village politics, he was affiliated with the Republican Party, and was a representative of Ulster County at the 1916 Republican Party state convention. |  |
| 1937-1940 | George L. Kerbert | Citizen's Protective Party | Owner and operator of "George L. Kerbert Plumbing and Heating" for 52 years. During his mayoralty he oversaw the creation of the village sewer plant by the Works Progress Administration. Kerbert's term ended with his resignation on August 31st, 1940, due to health issues and business pressures. |  |
| 1940-1941 | Frank S. Tongue | Citizen's Protective Party | Declined re-nomination |  |
| 1941 | John F. Carnright | Citizen's Protective Party | Died in office, aged 55. |  |
| 1941-1949 | Franklin P. Clum | Citizens Protective Party | Was not allowed on 1949 ballot per NYS Supreme Court decision Clum v. Holmes, ran a write-in campaign, lost by 200 votes. |  |
| 1949-1955 | George P. Holmes | Taxpayers Party | Owner and founder of Holmes Memorials. |  |
| 1955-1957 | Arthur F Simmons | Citizens Protective Party | Real estate developer who oversaw the creation of Simmons Plaza in Barclay Heights. He defeated George Holmes by 41 votes in the 1955 election. |  |
| 1957-1963 | George P. Holmes | Independent Party | Reclaimed the position from Simmons in 1957, and ran unopposed in 1959. Reelected 1961. | |
| 1963-1964 | William Ziegler | Saugerties Village Party | Son of earlier Mayor William Ziegler. |  |
| 1964-1973 | Cornelius "Neal" Matthew Cox | Saugerties Village Party | Worked as a mason and bricklayer, was appointed by Mayor Holmes to be Police Commissioner in 1957. He was a member of the Independent Party until 1962, when he switched to the newly-formed Village Party. Ran unopposed in 1965, 1967, 1969, and 1971. |  |
| 1973-1975 | Vernon "Joe" A. Benjamin | Independent Taxpayers Party (1973) Sawyer Party (1975) | Headed the new "Independent Taxpayers Party" in 1973, which changed its name to the "Sawyer Party" in 1975. Benjamin designed the Saugerties Town Seal, which was adopted in August of 1950. In non-village politics, he was affiliated with the Republican Party. He is also the father of Town Supervisor Vernon Benjamin. |  |
| 1975-1976 | James V. Gage | Village Party | Served as Village Clerk for many years. Indicted on two counts of larceny, confessed to altering tax rolls, fined $3000 dollars. Resigned November 1976. |  |
| 1976-1977 | Erika Hinchey | Sawyer Party | Erika Hinchey was the first woman on the village board in 1973 (on the Independent Taxpayers Party ticket), and the first woman to be mayor of Saugerties when she was elected by the Board of Trustees to fill the unexpired term of James V. Gage in 1976. She was the first wife of former U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey. |  |
| 1977-1979 | George A. Turner | Sawyer Party | Turner is the only person to have served as both Village Mayor and Town Supervisor since the end of the 19th century. |  |
| 1979-1983 | Charles W Steele | Village Party | The first person hired by Rotron in Woodstock, where he worked for many years. |  |
| 1983-1985 | Robert M Moser | Village Party | A street,"Bob Moser Dr", in the Cantine Veterans Sports Complex was named in his honor in August of 2000. |  |
| 1985-1992 | John Mull Robbins | Original Sawyer Party | In 1989 defeated former mayor Simmons's comeback bid. In 1992, he moved out of the village limits, necessitating his resignation. |  |
| 1992-1997 | Anthi "Tina" Chorvas | Original Sawyer Party ('92-'96) New Vision Party (After '96) | Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park is named in her honor. |  |
| 1997-2010 | Robert A Yerick | New Vision Party | Served in the US Navy during the Korean War. He was interviewd by the NYS Military Museum in 2005, a transcript of which can be found here. Resigned 2010. |  |
| 2010-Current | Bill Murphy | New Vision Party | Employed by IBM. In his youth, he delivered newspapers to Mayor Robert Yerick, who preceded him in office. |  |