Term | Name | Party | Notes | Image |
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1811-1812 | John Kiersted | Democratic-Republican | ? | |
1813 | Asa Bigelow | Federalist | ? | |
1814 | Jacob Snyder | Democratic-Republican (Bucktail) | ? | ? |
1815 | Jacob Trumpbour, Jr. | Federalist | ? | ? |
1816 | Jacob Snyder | Democratic-Republican (Bucktail) | ? | ? |
1817 | Abraham Fiero, Jr. | Federalist | ? | ? |
1818-1819 | Jacob Snyder | Democratic-Republican (Bucktail) | Note: Served in the New York State Assembly for the 1820-1821 session. | ? |
1820-1821 | Giles Isham | Democratic-Republican | ? | ? |
1822-1824 | George A. Gay | Democratic-Republican (Clintonite) | ? | ? |
1825-1828 | Jeremiah Russell | Democratic | Also served as US Congressman | |
1829 | George A. Gay | Whig | Notes? | Image? |
1830-1833 | Jeremiah Russell | Democratic | Also served as US Congressman | |
1834 | Henry P. Hermance | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1835-1836 | George A. Gay | Whig | Served as Ulster County Clerk from 1840 - 1843. Represented Ulster County in the New York State Assembly in 1848. | Image? |
1837-1840 | Jeremiah Russell | Democratic | Also served as US Congressman | |
1841 | Herman J. Quackenboss | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1842-1843 | Nicholas Shultis | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1844-1845 | John V. L. Overbagh | Whig | Notes? | |
1846-1847 | James Russell | Democratic | Son of Jeremiah Russell. | Image? |
1848 | George A. Gay | Whig | Notes? | Image? |
1849 | Solomon A. Smith | Whig | Was engaged in the gunpowder business with Fordyce L. Laflin, and later moved to Chicago. He is the father of Byron Laflin Smith, founder of The Northern Trust, "one of the largest banking institutions in the United States and one of the oldest banks in continuous operation." | |
1850 | William S. Burhans | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1851 | Nathan Kellogg | Whig | Notes? | Image? |
1852 | Solomon A. Smith | Whig | Notes? | |
1853 | Fordyce Luther Laflin | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1854 | Peter B. Myer | Whig | Notes? | Image? |
1855 | Samuel M. Post | American | Notes? | Image? |
1856 | William Fiero Russell | Democratic | Son of Jeremiah Russell, later a US Congressman. | |
1857 | Fordyce Luther Laflin | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1858 | Seaman G. Searing | Democratic (Anti-Lecompton) | Represented Ulster County in the 1878 New York Assembly)\ | |
1859 | Thomas S. Dawes | Democratic | Notes? | |
1860 | Fordyce Luther Laflin | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1861 | Thomas S. Dawes | Republican | For all his other terms, Dawes was elected as a Democrat instead. | |
1862-1864 | Cyrenius F. Brill | Democratic | Elected Ulster County Sheriff in 1867. He made national news in August of 1891 when he, as a Justice of Ulster County, sanctioned an interracial marriage. | Image? |
1865-1866 | Fordyce Luther Laflin | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1867 | Nathan Kellogg | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1868-1869 | Jeremiah P. Russell | Democratic | Full name Jeremiah Peter Russell, he is the grandson of Jeremiah Russell and nephew of both James Russell and William Fiero Russell. | |
1870 | Herman Winans | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1871 | Thomas Maxwell | Republican | Notes? | |
1872 | John Maxwell | Republican | Notes? | |
1873 | Robert A. Snyder | Republican | Notes? | |
1874 | Thomas Maxwell | Republican | Notes? | |
1875 | Thomas S. Dawes | Democratic | Notes? | |
1876 | Robert A. Snyder | Republican | Notes? | |
1877-1878 | Seaman G. Searing | Democratic (NYS Leg. 1878) | Notes? | |
1879 | Robert A. Snyder | Republican | Notes? | |
1880 | Egbert Cooper | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1881-1884 | Uriah VanEtten | Republican | Notes? | Image? |
1885 | Albert Carnright | Democratic | Notes? | Image? |
1886-1889 | Uriah VanEtten | Republican | Notes? | Image? |
1890-1892 | Edmund M. Wilbur | Democratic | Notes? | |
1893-1897 | John D. Fratsher | Republican | Served as Ulster County Clerk, 1901-1912 | |
1898-1899 | Edmund M. Wilbur | Democratic | Notes? | |
1900-1907 | David W. Maxwell | Republican | Son of Thomas Maxwell. | |
1908-1913 | John A. Snyder | Republican | Notes? | |
1914-1923 | John D. Fratsher | Republican | Served as Ulster County Clerk, 1901-1912 | |
1924-1929 | John C. Shults | Democratic | Notes? | |
1930-1933 | Henry A. Lamouree | Republican | Notes? | |
1934-1935 | John C. Shults | Democratic | Notes? | |
1936-1939 | Robert A. Snyder (2) | Republican | Third-generation Town Supervisor! Son of John A. Snyder, and grandson of Robert A. Snyder. Served as Ulster County Clerk 1940-1948 | |
1940 | Harry K. Myers | Republican | Passed away in his first year of service as Supervisor. Jacob H. Rogers was selected by the Town Board to fill the remainder of his term. | |
1940-1949 | Jacob H. Rogers | Republican | Notes? | |
1950-1967 | Peter M. Williams | Republican | Longest-serving supervisor in Saugerties history. | |
1968-1975 | A. Michael Schovel | Democratic (1968), Independent (1976) | Notes? | |
1980-1981 | Richard F. Thornton | Democratic, Conservative | Served as an Ulster County Legislator representing Saugerties from 1967 - 1974. | |
1982-1985 | George A. Turner | Republican | Turner is the only person to have served as both Village Mayor and Town Supervisor since the 19th century. | |
1986-1989 | Gloria Schovel | Democratic, Conservative | Wife of the earlier Supervisor A. Michael Schovel, she is the first woman to serve as Saugerties Town Supervisor. | |
1990-1991 | Vernon Benjamin | Democratic | Son of Mayor Vernon "Joe" A. Benjamin, and author of the two-volume History of the Hudson River Valley. | |
1992-1993 | George J. Terpening | Conservative | George J. Terpening Sr. Memorial Park in Malden is named in his honor. | |
1994-1999 | James R. Griffis | Republican | Notes? | |
2000-2011 | Greg Helsmoortel | Independence | Endorsed by the Republican Party. | |
2012-2013 | Kelly Myers | Republican | This is irrelevant but I think it's funny: Kelly Myers was quoted by the Poughkeepsie Journal in 2019, expressing her excitement to meet Larry Thomas, the actor who played the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld. | |
2014-2017 | Greg Helsmoortel | Independence | Endorsed by the Democratic Party. | |
2018-Current | Fred Costello | Independence | Endorsed by the Democratic Party. |
Sources:
1880, History of Ulster County, New York, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, [LINK]
1896, Commemorative Biographical Record of Ulster County, New York, published by J.H. Beers, [PART 1], [PART 2]
1907, The History of Ulster County, New York, edited by Alphonso T. Clearwater, [LINK]
1924, Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Ulster County, [LINK]
1984, History of Ulster County With a Focus on the Last 100 Years, [LINK]
Saugerties Public Library, Digital Newspaper Archive [LINK]
Ulster County Board of Elections (1999 onwards), [LINK]
See also:
List of Mayors of the Village of Saugerties (Under construction.)