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- ↑ Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City . Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-00051-0, ISBN 978-0-300-00051-1. Page 12.
- ↑ Gurciullo, Brianna (10 July 2023). "Salaries for CT mayors, top municipal officials are all over the map, so we mapped them". Stamford advocate. Stamford advocate. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ↑ Dennis Kimberly Archived 2011-11-05 at the Wayback Machine , Memorials of Connecticut Judges and Attorneys as printed in the Connecticut Reports volume 30, page(s) 605-607. Connecticut State Library website, accessed August 3, 2010.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 New Haven (Conn.) (1885). City Year Book for the City of New Haven ...: Containing Lists of the Officers of the City Government; Address of His Honor the Mayor; Annual Reports of City Departments and Other Public Documents ... p. 380.
- 1 2 "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1892" (PDF). Yale University. p. 131. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
- ↑ "Ex-Mayor Shelton's Trouble" (PDF). The New York Times. 14 November 1881. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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- Robert A. Dahl (1961), Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City . Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-00051-0, ISBN 978-0-300-00051-1. Table 2.1, The Mayors of New Haven, 1784–1960 (pages 12–14).