 He also popularized the phrase "unbought and unbossed" during his 1950 campaign.Impellitteri was the first mayor since the consolidation of greater New York in 1898 who was elected without a major party's ballot line, and his election was a populist uprising against the political system.Impellitteri's inauguration, held on November 14, 1950, absent either a band or a platform, was both swift and simple.