The Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, is the elected, chief executive of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, the fourth-largest city in the state of

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. The

Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...

city government consists of a mayor and a

city council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...

. The mayor is elected for a four-year term. The Mayor of Reading served under a city commission form of government prior to 1996. However, the city's mayor have served under a

home rule Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governance wit ...

form of government since 1996, beginning with the inauguration of Mayor Paul Angstadt in January of that year. Reading is one of the few United States cities to have elected a

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mayor. Three times, in 1927, 1935, and 1944, J. Henry Stump was elected mayor. The current mayor is Eddie Moran, who was elected on November 5, 2019 and began serving his term on January 6, 2020.

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