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List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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This is a list of the past and present mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mayors

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No. Mayor Image Term Party Notes
1 James D. Green May 1846 – April 1848
2 Sidney Willard April 1848 – April 1851
3 George Stevens April 1851 – April 1853
4 James D. Green April 1853 – April 1854 None
5 Abraham Edwards April 1854 – January 1855
6 Zebina L. Raymond January 1855 – January 1856
7 John Sargent January 1855 – January 1860
8 James D. Green January 1860 – July 24, 1861
9 Charles Theodore Russell July 31, 1861 – January 1863
10 George C. Richardson January 1863 – January 1864
11 Zebina L. Raymond January 1864 – January 1865
12 J. Warren Merrill January 1865 – January 1867
13 Ezra Parmenter January 1867 – January 1868
14 Charles H. Saunders January 1868 – January 1870
15 Hamlin R. Harding January 1870 – January 1872
16 Henry Oscar Houghton January 1872 – January 1873
17 Isaac Bradford January 1873 – January 1877 Democratic
18 Frank Augustus Allen January 1877 – January 1878
19 Samuel L. Montague January 1878 – January 1880
20 James Morris Whiton Hall January 1880 – January 1881
21 James Augustus Fox January 1881 – January 1885
22 William Russell January 1885 – January 1889 Democratic
23 Henry Gilmore January 1889 – January 1891
24 Alpheus B. Alger January 1891 – January 1892
25 William Bancroft January 1893 – January 1897
26 Alvin F. Sortwell January 1897 – January 1899
27 Edgar R. Champlin January 1899 – January 1901 Republican
28 David T. Dickinson January 1901 – January 1902 Republican
29 John H. H. McNamee January 1902 – January 1904
30 Augustine J. Daly January 1904 – January 1906
31 Charles H. Thurston January 1906 – January 1907
32 Walter C. Wardwell January 1907 – April 1909
33 William F. Brooks April 1908 – April 1911
34 J. Edward Barry April 1911 – April 1914
35 Timothy W. Good April 1914 – January 3, 1916
36 Wendell D. Rockwood January 3, 1916 – January 1918
37 Edward W. Quinn January 1918 – January 1930 Democratic
38 Richard M. Russell January 1930 – January 1936 Democratic
39 John D. Lynch January 1936 – January 1938
40 John W. Lyons January 1938 – July 22, 1941
41 Francis C. Sennott July 23, 1941 – January 1, 1942 Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter.
42 John H. Corcoran 1942 – December 28, 1945 Democratic Beginning of the weak Mayor/City Manager form of government
43 John D. Lynch 1946–1947
44 Michael Neville 1948–1949
45 Edward Crane 1950–1951
46 Joseph DeGuglielmo 1952–1953
47 John J. Foley 1954–1955
48 Edward J. Sullivan 1956–1957
49 Tom McNamara 1958–1959
50 Edward Crane 1960–1965
51 Daniel Hayes 1966–1967
52 Walter Sullivan 1968–1969
53 Alfred Vellucci 1970–1971
54 Barbara Ackermann 1972–1973
55 Walter Sullivan 1974–1975
56 Alfred Vellucci 1976–1977
57 Thomas Danehy 1978–1979
58 Francis Duehay 1980–1981
59 Alfred Vellucci 1982–1983
60 Leonard J. Russell 1984–1985
61 Francis Duehay 1985
62 Walter Sullivan 1986–1987
63 Alfred Vellucci 1988–1989
64 Alice Wolf 1990–1991
65 Kenneth Reeves 1992–1995
66 Sheila Russell 1996–1997
67 Francis Duehay 1998–1999
68 Anthony Galluccio 2000–2001
69 Michael A. Sullivan 2002–2005
70 Kenneth Reeves 2006–2007
71 E. Denise Simmons 2008–2009
72 David P. Maher 2010–2011
73 Henrietta Davis 2012–2013
74 David P. Maher 2014–2015
75 E. Denise Simmons 2016–2017
76 Marc C. McGovern 2018–2019
77 Sumbul Siddiqui 2020–2024
78 E. Denise Simmons 2024–present

City managers

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No. City Manager Term Notes
1 John B. Atkinson 1942 – 1952
2 John J. Curry 1952 – 1966
3 Joseph DeGuglielmo 1966 – 1968
4 James Sullivan 1968 – 1970
5 John H. Corcoran 1970 – 1974
6 James Sullivan 1974 – 1981
7 Robert W. Healy 1981 – 2013
8 Richard Rossi 2013 – 2016
9 Louis A. DePasquale 2016 – 2022
Acting Owen O’Riordan[1] 2022 – 2022
10 Yi-An Huang[2] 2022 – present

References

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  1. ^ "Yi-An Huang Selected as Next Cambridge City Manager". www.cambridgema.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
  2. ^ "Yi-An Huang Takes the Helm as Cambridge City Manager". www.cambridgema.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2022.