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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Charles Godfrey Gunther.jpg
| caption = Photo of Gunther by [[Mathew Brady]]
| birth_date = April 7, 1822
| death_date = {{d-da|January 22, 1885|April 7, 1822}}
| term_start = 1864
| term_end = 1866
| successor = [[John T. Hoffman]]
| predecessor = [[George Opdyke]]
| office = 77th [[Mayor of New York City]]
| party = [[New York State Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S.
| death_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Green-Wood Cemetery]]
}}
[[File:Charles Gunther.jpg|thumb|Charles Godfrey Gunther]]
'''Charles Godfrey Gunther''' (April 7, 1822 – January 22, 1885) was mayor of [[New York City]] from 1864 until 1866.

==Early life==
Gunther was born in [[New York City|New York]] on April 7, 1822,{{Efn|At least once source gives his birthdate as February 7, 1822.<ref name=Fireman>{{Cite web |url=http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/gunther/gunther01.html |title=Volunteer Fireman: public service start & a lifelong association |publisher=New York Correction History Society |access-date=2021-12-03}}</ref>}} into a family of recent immigrants from [[Germany]].<ref name=Successful>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924072688090/page/283/mode/1up |title=America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography |volume=I |editor-first=Henry |editor-last=Hall |publisher=The New York Tribune Company |page=283 |year=1895 |access-date=2021-12-03 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>[http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/december/charles-gunther.htm "The Mayor Elect"], ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', December 19, 1863, at 813.</ref> His father, Christian G. Gunther, was a wealthy fur merchant, and Gunther would eventually join the family business.

Gunther was also a [[volunteer firefighter]] for many years.<ref name=Fireman/>

==Political career==
Gunther was active in [[Tammany Hall]] politics since his teenage years.<ref name=Successful/>

In 1861 he ran for mayor as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], but lost to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[George Opdyke]] in an election fraught with [[American Civil War|Civil War]] complications. In 1863 Gunther ran again and was elected, serving his two-year term from 1864 until 1866.<ref name=Successful/>

==Later life==
After leaving politics, Gunther became a railroad executive, working in that capacity until his death in New York on January 22, 1885.<ref name=Successful/><ref name=OBIT>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3816307/ex-mayor-c-godfrey-gunther-ny-times/ |title=Obituary: Ex-Mayor C. Godfrey Gunther |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=5 |date=January 24, 1885 |access-date=2021-12-03 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

He was buried in [[Brooklyn]]'s [[Green-Wood Cemetery]].

==See also==
*[[German Americans]]

==Notes==
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Charles Godfrey Gunther - Revision history

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