Thomas P. Ryan Jr. Thomas P. Ryan Jr. Thomas P. Ryan Jr. (December 3, 1928 – March 14, 2003) was the 63rd Mayor of Rochester, New York. Ryan began his tenure as Mayor under the old council/city manager system of government, in which the mayor was selected from among members of City Council to be that body's presiding officer. He first was voted to the post by his Council peers after the 1973 election which returned a Democratic majority to office. For his first decade as Mayor, a city manager appointed by City Council and accountable to that body handled the day to day
Mayor of North Shore City Mayor of North Shore City The Mayor of North Shore City was the head of the municipal government of North Shore City, New Zealand, from 1989 to 2010, and presided over the North Shore City Council with 15 councillors. The mayor was directly elected using a first-past-the-post electoral system. The councillors were elected from three wards: Northern, Harbour and Central. The elections were held every three years. The last serving mayor, elected in 2007, was Andrew Williams. North Shore City Council ceased to exist on 31 October 2010 and was incorporated into the Auckland Council, for which elections were held