Stephen May (July 30, 1931 – March 31, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as mayor of Rochester between 1970 and 1973 and as an assistant secretary for congressional relations at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Reagan administration.
As of 2007, May maintained dual residences in Washington, D.C. and mid-coast Maine and occupied his time as a writer and art critic.
[2] May died on March 31, 2016, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, due to complications from an operation undergone the previous month.
Subsequently, between 1975 and 1979 he served as commissioner and chairman of the New York State Board of Elections.
His statewide youth coordinator Bruce Blakeman would also run unsuccessfully for State Comptroller as a Republican 24 years later in 1998.