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
Thomas Danby (mayor) He died on 31 July 1667 in a sword fight in a London tavern. Thomas Danby College was named after him. Thomas Danby (mayor) Thomas Danby (1631–1667) of Farnley and Thorpe Perrow was the first Mayor of Leeds (1661–62). He was born in 1631, the son of Sir Thomas Danby (1610–1660) of Farnley Hall (West Yorkshire), and his wife Katherine Wandesford, and married Margaret Eure in 1659. In 1660 he became Member of Parliament for Malton, and in 1661 (via a charter for the city of Leeds from King Charles II) he became the first Mayor of Leeds. The mayoral