Mayor of Boston
Appearance
The Mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has a mayor-council system of government. The Mayor’s Office is in Boston City Hall, in Government Center. There was no Mayor of Boston until 1822 because up to that point Boston was still incorporated as a town. The current mayor is Thomas Menino.
This is a list of the mayors of Boston, Massachusetts. "A" denotes an acting mayor:
# | Mayor | Picture | Term | Party | Notes |
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1st | John Phillips | May 1, 1822 – May 1, 1823 | Federalist | ||
2nd | Josiah Quincy III | May 1, 1823 – January 5, 1829 | Federalist | ||
3rd | Harrison Gray Otis | January 5, 1829 – January 2, 1832 | Federalist | ||
4th | Charles Wells | January 2, 1832 – January 6, 1834 | Whig | ||
5th | Theodore Lyman | January 6, 1834 – January 4, 1836 | Democratic and Workingmen parties[1] | ||
6th | Samuel T. Armstrong | January 4, 1836 – January 1, 1838 | Whig | ||
7th | Samuel A. Eliot | January 1, 1838 – January 6, 1840 | Whig | ||
8th | Jonathan Chapman | January 6, 1840 – January 2, 1843 | Whig | ||
9th | Martin Brimmer | January 2, 1843 – January 6, 1845 | Whig | ||
A | William Parker | January 6, 1845 – February 27, 1845 | Whig[2] | From the close of Mayor Brimmer's term on January 6, 1845 until his successor Thomas Aspinwall Davis assumed office on February 27, 1845, William Parker, Chairman of the Board of Aldermen, performed the duties of mayor. Parker ran for mayor but lost to Davis in the election held on February 21, 1845.[2] | |
10th | Thomas Aspinwall Davis | February 27, 1845 – November 22, 1845 | Native American Party[2] | Died in office, November 22, 1845 | |
A | Benson Leavitt | November 22, 1845 – December 11, 1845 | Whig | Chairman of the Board of Aldermen served as Acting Mayor from November 22, 1845 to December 11, 1845. | |
11th | Josiah Quincy, Jr. | December 11, 1845 – January 1, 1849 | Whig | After he was elected Mayor on December 8, 1845 for the term beginning January 5, 1846, Quincy was appointed by the City Council, on December 11, 1845, to serve out Mayor Davis' term. | |
12th | John P. Bigelow | January 1, 1849 – January 5, 1852 | Whig | ||
13th | Benjamin Seaver | January 5, 1852 – January 2, 1854 | Whig | ||
14th | Jerome V.C. Smith | January 2, 1854 – January 7, 1856 | Native American Party[3] | ||
15th | Alexander H. Rice | January 7, 1856 – January 4, 1858 | Republican and Citizens | ||
16th | Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr. | January 4, 1858 – January 7, 1861 | Republican and Fanueuil Hall Candidate | A Republican, in the 1857 election Lincoln was a so called Fanueuil Hall candidate; he was put forward by a group of citizens who had gathered at Fanueuil Hall.[4] | |
17th | Joseph Wightman | January 7, 1861[5] January 5, 1863[6] | Democratic[6] | Two terms | |
18th | Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr. | January 5, 1863 – January 7, 1867[6] | Republican | Second time | |
19th | Otis Norcross | January 7, 1867 – January 6, 1868[7] | Republican; former "Webster Whig" | His time in office was "conducted upon purely business principles, employing the adoption of a 'rigid economy'." [8] | |
20th | Nathaniel B. Shurtleff | January 6, 1868 – January 2, 1871[9] | Democratic | Shurtleff, who had been the defeated Know-Nothing candidate in 1855, was elected mayor in 1867 as a Democrat. | |
21st | William Gaston | January 2, 1871 – January 6, 1873 | Democratic | ||
22nd | Henry L. Pierce | January 6, 1873 – November 29, 1873 | Non Partisan | Normally a Republican, Pierce was elected mayor as an independent non-partisan candidate. Pierce resigned after he was elected to fill the vacancy in the United States House of Representatives caused by the death of William Whiting. | |
A | Leonard R. Cutter | November 29, 1873 – January 5, 1874 | Democratic | Acting Mayor after Pierce resigns to serve in Congress. | |
24th | Samuel C. Cobb | January 5, 1874 – January 1, 1877 | Non Partisan | ||
25th | Frederick O. Prince | January 1, 1877 – January 7, 1878 | Democratic | ||
26th | Henry L. Pierce | January 7, 1878 – January 6, 1879 | Republican | Second time | |
27th | Frederick O. Prince | January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1882 | Democratic | Second time | |
28th | Samuel A. Green | January 2, 1882 – January 1, 1883 | Republican and Citizens | ||
29th | Albert Palmer | January 1, 1883 – January 7, 1884 | Democratic | ||
30th | Augustus P. Martin | January 7, 1884 – January 5, 1885 | Republican and Citizens | ||
31st | Hugh O'Brien | January 5, 1885 – January 7, 1889 | Democratic | First Irish Mayor of Boston | |
32nd | Thomas N. Hart | January 7, 1889 – 1890 | Republican | ||
33rd | Nathan Matthews, Jr. | 1891–1894 | Democratic | ||
34th | Edwin Upton Curtis | 1895–1895 | Republican | ||
35th | Josiah Quincy | 1896–1899 | Democratic | ||
36th | Thomas N. Hart | 1900–1902 | Republican | Second time | |
37th | Patrick Collins | 1902–1905 | Democratic | ||
A | Daniel A. Whelton | 1905–1906 | Democratic | Acting mayor after Collins died in office; First native born Irish Mayor; First Native Born Catholic Mayor | |
38th | John F. Fitzgerald | 1906–1908 | Democratic | ||
39th | George A. Hibbard | 1908–1910 | Republican | ||
40th | John F. Fitzgerald | 1910–1914 | Democratic | Second time | |
41st | James M. Curley | 1914–1918 | Democratic | ||
42nd | Andrew J. Peters | 1918–1922 | Democratic | ||
43rd | James M. Curley | 1922–1926 | Democratic | Second time | |
44th | Malcolm Nichols | 1926–1930 | Republican | Last Republican elected to date. | |
45th | James M. Curley | 1930–1934 | Democratic | Third time | |
46th | Frederick Mansfield | 1934–1938 | Democratic | ||
47th | Maurice J. Tobin | 1938–1945 | Democratic | ||
A | John E. Kerrigan | 1945–1946 | Democratic | Acting mayor after Tobin elected Governor | |
48th | James M. Curley | 1946–1950 | Democratic | Fourth time; jailed for 5 months during term | |
A | John B. Hynes | 1947 | Democratic | Acting mayor during incarceration of Curley | |
49th | John B. Hynes | 1950–1960 | Democratic | Three terms | |
50th | John F. Collins | 1960–1968 | Democratic | Two terms | |
51st | Kevin H. White | 1968–1984 | Democratic | Four terms | |
52nd | Raymond L. Flynn | January 2, 1984 – July 12, 1993 | Democratic | Three terms | |
53rd | Thomas M. Menino | July 12, 1993 – Present | Democratic | Incumbent; fifth term; longest-serving mayor to date |
Living former mayors
Currently, there are two former mayors who are still alive, the older being Kevin H. White (1968–1984, born 1929). The most recent mayor to die was John F. Collins (1960–1968), on November 23, 1995.
Name | Mayoral term | Date of birth |
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Kevin H. White | 1968–1984 | September 25, 1929 |
Raymond L. Flynn | 1984–1993 | July 22, 1939 |
See also
- Past Members of the Boston City Council
- Mayors of Charlestown, Massachusetts.
- Mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
References
- ^ Curry, Leonard P. (1997), The Corporate City: The American city as a Political Entity, 1800–1850, Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, p. 96., ISBN 0-313-30277.
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- ^ From Our Own Correspondent (January 5, 1868), BOSTON.; The City and Its New Mayor—The Past Mayors of Boston and Who They Were—Distress in the City—Personal., New York, NY: New York Times, p. 3
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(help) - ^ Winsor, Justin (1881), The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts 1630 – 1880., Volume III, Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, pp. 262–263.
- ^ Vrabel, Jim (2004), When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, p. 173
- ^ a b c Vrabel, Jim (2004), When in Boston: A Time Line & Almanac, Boston, MA: University Press of New England (UPNE), p. 175
- ^ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822–1908, Roxbury, 1846–1867, Charlestown 1847–1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634–1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, pp. 257–258
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- ^ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822–1908, Roxbury, 1846–1867, Charlestown 1847–1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634–1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, pp. 258–261
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