{"id":1552,"date":"2011-06-06T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/hc\/?page_id=1552"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:42:20","slug":"bridgeport-mayors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/bridgeport-mayors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgeport Mayors: 1836 to 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>We are adding to our site the list of mayors and biographies.\u00a0 The list will be available in the following weeks.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the City&#8217;s founding in 1836, the City of Bridgeport had Dynamic mayors.\u00a0 Isaac Sherman was the first Mayor of Bridgeport, and mayors have\u00a0continued to create and mold the City into today&#8217;s Bridgeport.\u00a0 In 1875, P.T. Barnum served as the Mayor of Bridgeport,\u00a0a one year term in the 19th century. \u00a0In his short term, P.T. Barnum worked against poverty, alcohol abuse and installed better lighting in the streets. His mayoral term was over in 1876.\u00a0 The Mayors continue to work for a better Bridgeport, and the legacy lives on.\u00a0 At this site, you will find a complete list with photographs and biographies of all of the Mayors of Bridgeport from the city&#8217;s founding in 1836 to the present.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1554\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1554\" title=\"Phineas T. Barnum 1875\" src=\"http:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875.jpg 810w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-349x500.jpg 349w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-714x1024.jpg 714w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-51x73.jpg 51w, https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Phineas-T.-Barnum-1875-402x576.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1875<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are adding to our site the list of mayors and biographies.\u00a0 The list will be available in the following weeks. Since the City&#8217;s founding in 1836, the City of Bridgeport had Dynamic mayors.\u00a0 Isaac Sherman was the first Mayor of Bridgeport, and mayors have\u00a0continued to create and mold the City into today&#8217;s Bridgeport.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1554,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1552","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12306,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions\/12306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}