List of mayors of Boston

The first Mayor of Boston

The current Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino.

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 Mayors of Boston, Massachusetts. "A" denotes an acting mayor:

#	Mayor	Picture	Term	Party	Notes
1st	John Phillips		1822 - 1823	None
2nd	Josiah Quincy III		1823 – 1828	None
3rd	Harrison Gray Otis		1829 – 1831	None
4th	Charles Wells		1832 – 1833	None
5th	Theodore Lyman		1834 – 1835	None
6th	Samuel T. Armstrong		1836-1837	Whig
7th	Samuel A. Eliot		1838 – 1839	None
8th	Jonathan Chapman		1840 – 1842	None
9th	Martin Brimmer		1843 – January 6, 1845
A	William Parker		January 6, 1845 – February 27, 1845	None	From January 6, 1845 to February 27, 1845, from the close of Mayor Brimmer's term until the election of his successor Thomas A. Davis, William Parker, Chairman of the Board of Aldermen, performed the duties of mayor.
10th	Thomas Aspinwall Davis		1845 – November 22, 1845	Native American Party	Died in office, November 22, 1845
A	Benson Leavitt		1845 – 1845		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		1849 – 1851	Whig
13th	Benjamin Seaver		1852 – 1853	Whig
14th	Jerome V.C. Smith		1854 – 1855	Native American Party[1]
15th	Alexander H. Rice		1856 – 1857	Republican
16th	Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.		1858 – 1860	None
17th	Joseph Wightman		January 7, 1861[2] January 5, 1863[3]	Democratic[3]	Two Terms
18th	Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.		January 5, 1863[3] 1866	None	Second time
19th	Otis Norcross		January 7, 1867 to January 6, 1868[4]	Republican Party (United States); former "Webster Whig"	His time in office was "conducted upon purely business principles, employing the adoption of a 'rigid economy'." [5]
20th	Nathaniel B. Shurtleff		January 6, 1868 – January 2, 1871[6]	None
21st	William Gaston		1871 – 1872	Democratic
22nd	Henry L. Pierce		1873	None
A	Leonard R. Cutter		1873	None	Acting Mayor after Pierce resigns for congress
24th	Samuel C. Cobb		1874 – 1876	None
25th	Frederick O. Prince		1877	None
26th	Henry L. Pierce		1878	None	Second time
27th	Frederick O. Prince		1879 – 1881	None	Second time
28th	Samuel A. Green		1882	None
29th	Albert Palmer		1883	None
30th	Augustus P. Martin		1884	None
31st	Hugh O'Brien		1885 – 1888	None	First Irish Mayor of Boston
32nd	Thomas N. Hart		1889 – 1890	Republican
33rd	Nathan Matthews, Jr.		1891 – 1894	None
34th	Edwin Upton Curtis		1895 – 1895	None
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
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; fourth term

Living former mayors

Currently, there are two former mayors were 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.

See also

• List of mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts

References

External links

• Lists of Mayors of Boston at The Political Graveyard

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