User:Queen of Hearts/Drafts/List of Baltimore City Council members

Baltimore City Hall, the meeting place of the council, in 2010

Current composition of the council:

•   Democratic (15)

The Baltimore City Council is the legislature of Baltimore, Maryland. It was bicameral from its founding in 1797 until its branches merged to form a unicameral legislature in 1923. The First Branch, the lower house, initially had two members from each of its eight wards with year-long terms. Wards became single-member in 1846 and terms were increased to two years in 1899, then four years in 1911. The First Branch had 28 wards when it was merged. The Second Branch, the upper house, was originally composed of eight members with two-year terms elected by an electoral college. In 1807, the branch became directly elected, with one member elected from each First Branch ward. From 1846 to 1900, members represented two wards; wards were replaced with six districts and an at-large president in 1900.

After the merger of the two branches, the unicameral council had three members from each of its six districts and an at-large president with four-year terms. A fourth member was added to the fifth and third districts in 1947 and 1951, respectively; these extra members were removed in 1967. After Question P was passed in 2002, the council was reorganized to have a single member from 14 districts and an at-large president. After the 2020 election, its members – Zeke Cohen, Danielle McCray, Ryan L. Dorsey, Mark Conway, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer, Sharon Green Middleton, James Torrence, Kristerfer A. L. Burnett, John T. Bullock, Phylicia Porter, Eric T. Costello, Robert R. Stokes, Sr., Antonio Glover, and Odette Ramos – as well as its president, Nick Mosby, are all from the Democratic Party.

First Branch

Main page: User:Queen of Hearts/Drafts/First Branch of the Baltimore City Council

Changes in the amount of First Branch wards

Year	Wards
1797	8
1817	11
1818	12
1842	14
1844	20
1882	22
1898	24
1918	28

Members of the First Branch of the Baltimore City Council

Ward	First member(s)			Last member			Refs.
	Name (Tenure)	Party		Name (Tenure)	Party
1	James Carey (1797–1798)			Charles Holzman (1919–1923)
	Ephraim Robinson (1797–1799)
2	George Buchanan (1797–1798)			Jacob L. Antonie (1919–1923)
	Samuel Owings (1797)
3	Zebulon Hollingsworth (1801)			Vincent L. Palmisano (1915–1923)
	Robert Smith (1801)
4	Hercules Courtenay (1797)			John C. Huthwelker (1919–1923)
	William Wilson (1797)
5	Adam Fonerden (1797–1802)			Samuel Lasch (1911–1923)
	Thomas Hollingsworth (1797–1801)
6	James A. Buchanan (1797)			James R. Cadden (1915–1923)
	Peter Frick (1797–1802)
7	David Brown (1797)			August Klecker (1915–1923)
	James Edwards (1797–1798)
8	Joseph Biays (1797–1800)			John G. Scott (1915–1923)
	William Trimble (1797)
9	Arthur Mitchell (1818)			Harry J. McClellan (1915–1923)
	Robert Taylor (1818)
10	Isaac Philips (1818)			John A.J. McKenna (1915–1923)
	Samuel R. Smith (1797–1799)
11	Lewis Pascault (1818)			Edward S. Stanley (1919–1923)
	John H. Rodgers (1818)
12	John Brevett (1819–1820)			Wilson J. Carroll (1919–1923)
	Upton Bruce (1819)
13	Valentine Dushane (1842)			L. Edward Wolf (1919–1923)
	William A. Hack (1842–1843)
14	Henry Snyder (1842–1845)			Warner T. McGuinn (1919–1923)
	James Zimmerman (1842–1843)
15	Thomas Hooper (1846)			John T. Ford (1915–1923)
16	William M. Starr (1846)			John B. Nichols (1919–1923)
17	John S. Brown (1846)			William L. Fitzgerald (1919–1923)
18	Felix McCurley (1846)			Edward Gross (1911–1923)
19	William A. Hack (1846–1848)			John F. O'Meara (1911–1913)
20	Michael Gross (1846–1847)			Adam Hechmer (1919–1923)
21	WIlliam H. Brown (1889)			William Weisberger (1915–1923)
22	F. Albert Kurtz (1889)			Charles W. Warrenberger (1919–1923)
23	William Grecht (1899–1900)			George R. Wicklein (1919–1923)
24	John P. Galvin (1899–1900)			Frank F. Busch (1919–1923)
25	Edmund J. Upton (1919–1923)			Edmund J. Upton (1919–1923)
26	Frank W. Jacoby (1919–1923)			Frank W. Jacoby (1919–1923)
27	G. Edward Markley (1919–1923)			G. Edward Markley (1919–1923)
28	George Y. Everhart (1919–1923)			George Y. Everhart (1919–1923)

Second Branch

Single-ward members (1809–1846)

Members of the Second Branch of the Baltimore City Council (1809–1846)

Ward	First member			Last member			Refs.
	Name (Tenure)	Party		Name (Tenure)	Party
1	Henry Stouffer (1809–1811)			Henry R. Lauderman (1833–1835, 1837–1839, 1843–1846)
2	Henry Payson (1809–1819)			John E. Stansbury (1841–1846)
3	James Calhoun (1809–1817)			Samuel Boyd (1839–1845)
4	Robert Gilmore (1809–1811)			Samuel Barnes (1845–1846)
5	Cumberland Dugan (1809–1811, 1815–1817)			Hugh Bolton (1843–1847)
6	Jacob Miller (1809–1819)			Robert Howard (1843–1845)
7	William MacDonald (1809–1813)			Michael Coughey (1845–1846)
8	James Biays (1809–1819)			Stephen Collins (1845–1846)
9	Henry Payson (1819–1821)			William J. Wright (1843–1846)
10	Benjamin Ellicott (1819–1827)			John L. Reese (1843–1846)
11	Adam Welsh (1819–1823)			Francis Forman (1845–1846)
12	George Warner (1819–1823)			James Essender (1845–1846)
13	David Taylor (1843–1845)			William Baker (1845–1846)
14	William Bender (1843–1845)			Beale H. Richardson (1845–1846)

References

[[Category:Baltimore City Council| ]] [[Category:Baltimore-related lists]] [[Category:Lists of Maryland politicians]]