List of Town Supervisors
SUPERVISORS OF THE TOWN OF NISKAYUNA, 1809 TO DATE
"It is the assigned lot of a town supervisor to move peripatetically from place to place, event to event, some planned, many unplanned, some happily ceremonial, others of sufficient gravity to require a high degree of leadership ranging, at minimum, from empathetic presence, to, at maximum, overt involvement aimed at restoration of stability." -Ed Reilly 7/28/1995
1809 Lawrence Vrooman
1810-1811 S.I. Van Antwerp
1812 Derick C. Groat
1813 S.I.Van Antwerp
1814 W.H. Alexander
1815 Derwick Veeder
1816 S.I. Van Antwerp
1817-1821 H.P. Schuyler
1822-1825 C.C. Van Vranken
1826-1827 John Clark
1828-1829 Abram Pearse
1830 C.C. Van Vranken
1831-1832 Abram Pearse
1833 Morgan Strong
1834-1838 Abram Pearse
1839 G. Van Vranken
1840 Peter B. Noxon
1841-1842 G. Van Vranken
1843 Morgan Strong
1844 Abram Pearse
1845-1846 James R. Craig
1847-1848 William Van Vranken
1849 John Pearse
1850-1851 William V. Bradt
1852-1853 James Van Vranken
1854 John H. Putman
1855 John Pearse
1856 John H. Putman
1857 William H. Lake
1858 B.C. Lansing
1859-1860 John I. Vrooman
1861-1862 William Van Vranken
1863-1864 Hiram Baumes
1865-1868 John I. Vrooman, Jr.
1869-1870 N.J. Van Vranken
1871 John I. Vrooman, Jr.
1872-1879 C.O. Hamlin
1880-1886 T.W. Winne
1887-1889 C. Van Vranken
1890-1892 Frank Mesick
1893-1895 John N. Parker
1896-1905 G.W. Freligh
1906-1911 T.W. Winne
1912-1925 A.R. Hamlin
1926-1933 James A. Westlin
1934-1935 G.S. Spaulding
1936-1940 Roy E. Whamer
1940-1945 Walter C. Heckman
1946-1959 Harold N. Rowe
1960-1965 Robert W. Williams
1966-1967 Richard C. "Mike" Fritz
1968-1969 D. Allen Fisher
1970-1979 Edwin D. Reilly, Jr.
1980-1987 Margaret B. "Mardy" Moore
1988-1989 Robert J. Ausfeld
1989-1997 Edwin D. Reilly, Jr.
1998-1999 Kathleen R. DeCataldo
2000-2007 Luke J. Smith
2008-2017 Joe Landry
2018-present Yasmine Syed
The service of these five Supervisors spanned 36 of the previous 40 years. The picture was taken at the first Niska Day in 1981. Left to right are Mike Fritz, Ed Reilly, Allen Fisher, Mardy Moore, and Bob Williams.