A list of Burlington VT's mayors: (This page mostly by Clay Shentrup. Please do not confuse Burlington VT with Burlington NC or Burlington Ontario.) Mayor......................In office......Party Albert L.Catlin............1865-1866 Torrey Eglesby Wales ..... 1866-1868 Paul D.Ballou..............1868-1870 Daniel Chipman Linsley ... 1870-1870 L.C. Dodge.................1871-1874 Calvin H. Blodgett ........1874-1876 J.D. Hatch ................1876-1883 George H. Morse............1883-1885 Urban Adrian Woodbury .....1885-1887 W.W. Henry ................1887-1889 William August Crombie ....1889-1891 Seneca Haselton............1891-1894 William James Van Patten...1894-1896 H.S. Peck..................1896-1898 Elliot M. Sutton...........1898-1899 Robert Roberts.............1899-1901 D.C. Hawley................1901-1903 James Edmund Burke.........1903-1907 Walter J. Bigelow .........1907-1909 James Edmund Burke ........1909-1911 Robert Roberts ............1911-1913 James Edmund Burke.........1913-1915 Albert S. Drew ............1915-1917 J.Holmes Jackson ..........1917-1925 Clarence H. Beecher........1925-1929 J. Holmes Jackson .........1929-1933 James Edmund Burke.........1933-1935 Louis Fenner Dow...........1935-1939 John J. Burns .............1939-1948 John Edward Moran..........1948-1957 C. Douglas Cairns..........1957-1959 James E. Fitzpatrick ......1959-1961 Robert K. Bing ............1961-1963 ? Edward A. Keenan ..........1963-1965 ? Francis J. Cain............1965-1971 Progressivish Democrat? Gordon H. Paquette.........1971-1981 Democratic Bernard Sanders............1981-1989 Independent, describes self as "DemocraticSocialist" or "IndependentSocialist" Peter A. Clavelle..........1989-1993 Progressive (& endorsed by Sanders, had been in his administration) Peter Chase Brownell.......1993-1995 ? Peter A. Clavelle..........1995-2006 Progressive Robert S. Kiss.............2006- Progressive [Wikipedia: In 1981, at the suggestion of his friend Richard Sugarman, a religion professor at the University of Vermont, Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington and defeated six-term Democratic incumbent Gordon Paquette by 12 votes, in a four-way contest. (An independent candidate, Richard Bove, split the Democratic vote after losing the primary to Paquette). Increasingly popular because of his successful revitalization of Burlington's downtown area, Sanders won three more terms, defeating both Democratic and Republican candidates. In his last run for mayor, in 1987, he defeated a candidate endorsed by both major parties.] [New York Times article by Allan R. Gold page A12, 6 March 1989: The victory for Bernard Sanders, a rumpled Brooklyn native who had railed against the injustices of the "ruling class," gave birth to the "People's Republic of Burlington," as it came to be known. Eight tumultuous years later, Mr. Sanders has decided not to seek a fifth two-year term in the mayoral election Tuesday. It's not that "Bernie," as everyone calls the 47-year-old politician, would have had much difficulty staying in office... He says someone else must lead the "progressive coalition," the informal third party that rallied around him and won 6 of the 13 seats on the Board of Aldermen. Those Aldermen came to be known in political circles as "Sandernistas." "There is a big question about whether the party is his personality, or requires his presence, or has a life of its own," said Nancy Chioffi, a Democratic Alderman who is running for Mayor. She faces Peter Clavelle, a progressive who has been endorsed by Mr. Sanders, and Sandra L. Baird, a representative of the Greens, an American counterpart of the leftist West German party and the Mayor's sharpest critic.]