High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 58th and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the city`s first African-American mayor. He previously served Western New York as a member of the New York State Senate and Buffalo Common Council. He was the first African-American politician elected to the New York State Senate to represent a district outside New York City and the first member of any minority race to represent a majority white New York State Senate district.