List of mayors of White Plains, New York

The City of White Plains in New York State was incorporated on January 1, 1916 with a law enacted by the state legislature in 1915 and signed by Governor Charles Whitman. The law provided for a two-year term for its mayor.^[1] The mayor's term was extended by local law to four years starting with the election of 1977.^[2]

When the mayor's office was established in 1915, the annual salary was $1,000.^[3] As of January 1, 2026^[update], the salary was $176,700.^[4]

The following is a list of the mayors of White Plains since the city's establishment:

No.	Name	Dates in Office	Party	Notes
1	Farrington S. Thompson	January 1, 1916 – December 31, 1919	Democratic	elected to two-year terms in 1915 and 1917[5][6]
2	Frederick E. Weeks	January 1, 1920 – December 31, 1925	Republican	elected to two-year terms in 1919, 1921, and 1923[5]
3	Frederick C. McLaughlin	January 1, 1926 – December 31, 1931	Republican	elected to two-year terms in 1925, 1927, and 1929[5]
4	Chauncey B. Griffen	January 1, 1932 – December 31, 1933	Republican	elected to a two-year term in 1931[5] did not seek re-election in 1933[7]
5	Robert P. Smith	January 1, 1934 – December 31, 1935	Republican	elected to a two-year term in 1933[5] did not seek re-election in 1935[8]
6	Walter Rogers	January 1, 1936 – December 31, 1937	Republican	elected to a two-year term in 1935[5] did not have his party's committee's support in the Republican primary election[9] and lost to Chauncey T. S. Fish[10]
7	Chauncey T. S. Fish	January 1, 1938 – December 31, 1945	Republican	elected to two-year terms in 1937, 1939, 1941, and 1943[5]
8	Silas S. Clark	January 1, 1946 – December 31, 1949	Republican	elected to two-year terms in 1945 and 1947[5]
9	Edwin G. Michaelian	January 1, 1950 – December 31, 1957	Republican	elected to two-year terms in 1949, 1951, 1953, and 1955[5]
10	Richard S. Hendey	January 1, 1958 – December 31, 1973	Republican	elected to eight two-year terms[11] did not seek re-election in 1973[12]
11	Carl J. Delfino	January 1, 1974 – July 21, 1974	Republican	elected to a two-year term in 1973 suffered an incapacitating stroke several days after taking office, submitted his resignation July 18, and died July 21 before the resignation became effective[13][2][14]
—	Harry Gordon	January 1974 – May 3, 1974 (acting)	Republican	as president of the city's Common Council, he became acting mayor upon Delfino's incapacity[2] resigned[2]
—	vacant	May 3, 1974 – May 22, 1974		the city's Common Council had only two Democrats and two Republicans, and could not agree on an interim mayor,[2] even after two Democrats were elected to fill the remaining empty council seats[15][16]
—	Michael J. Keating	May 22, 1974 – August 20, 1974 (acting)	Democratic	appointed via a State Supreme Court justice ruling that as the senior councilman, he should become acting mayor[2]
12	Richard Maass	August 20, 1974 – December 31, 1974 (interim)	Democratic	the Common Council finally decided on an interim mayor[17][18]
13	Michael J. Keating	January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1975	Democratic	won a special general election in 1974 to serve the remainder of Carl Delfino's term[2][19] lost in the 1975 general election to Alfred Del Vecchio[20]
14	Alfred Del Vecchio	January 1, 1976 – December 31, 1993	Republican	had previously been a Democrat, but ran on the Republican and Conservative party lines[21] elected to a two-year term in 1975, and after passage of a law that changed the mayoral term to four years, was elected to four-year terms in 1977, 1981, 1983, and 1987[2][22] lost the Republican primary election in 1993[23]
15	Seymour J. Schulman	January 1, 1994 – December 31, 1997	Democratic	elected to a four-year term in 1993[24] did not seek re-election in 1997[25]
16	Joseph M. Delfino	January 1, 1998 – December 31, 2009	Republican	elected to four year terms in 1997, 2001, and 2005 did not seek re-election in 2009[26]
17	Adam T. Bradley	January 1, 2010 – February 18, 2011	Democratic	elected to a four-year term in 2009[27] resigned after being convicted for domestic violence[28] (his conviction overturned on appeal and he was acquitted upon retrial[29])
18	Thomas M. Roach	February 18, 2011 – April 1, 2011 (acting) April 1 – December 31, 2025	Democratic	as president of the city's Common Council, he became acting mayor upon Bradley's resignation[28] won a special election in March 2011 for the remainder of Bradley's term[30] elected to four-year terms in 2013, 2017, and 2021[31] did not seek re-election in 2025[32][33]
19	Justin C. Brasch	January 1, 2026 – current	Democratic	elected to a four-year term in 2025