Mayors

 

Levi Lincoln………………………………………………………….…………..……1848

            Born October 25, 1782    Died May 29, 1868

 

*Henri Chapin……………………………………………………………….....1849-50, 70

            Born May 13, 1811              Died October 13, 1878

 

Peter C. Bacon……………………………………………………………………..1851,52

            Born November 11, 1804    Died February 7, 1866

 

John S. D. Knowlton……………………………………………………………….1853,54

            Born December 1798                Died June 11, 1871

 

George W. Richardson……………………………………………………………..1855,57

            Born 1808                            Died June 15, 1886

 

Isaac Davis……………………………………………………………………...1856,58,61

            Born June 2, 1799                Died April 1, 1883

 

Alexander H. Bullock…………………………………………………………...…….1859

            Born March 2, 1816             Died January 17, 1882

 

William M. Rice……………………………………………………………………….1860

            Born March 7, 1826             Died March 1, 1896

 

P. Emory Aldrich……………………………………………………………………...1862

            Born 1813                            Died March 4, 1895            

 

D. Waldo Lincoln………………………………………………………………….1863-64

            Born January 16, 1813    Died July 1, 1880                            

 

Phineas Ball…………………………………………………………………………...1865

            Born January 18, 1824    Died December 19, 1894               

 

**James B. Blake………………………………………………………………….1866-70

            Born June 19, 1827              Died December 18, 1870

 

 

*Elected Mayor, as interim, by the City Council, in joint convention, December 19, 1870 to fill the vacancy by the decease of James B. Blake

 

**Elected for the sixth time, December 12, 1870. Died December 18, 1870.

 

 

 

Edward Earle…………………………………………………………………………..1871

            Born February 10, 1811    Died May 19, 1877

 

George F. Verry……………………………………………………………………….1872

            Born July 14, 1826               Died October 5, 1883

 

Clark Jillson……………………………………………………………………1873, 75-76                     Born April 11, 1825              Died June 5, 1894

 

Edward L. Davis………………………………………………………………………1874

            Born April 22, 1834              Died March 2, 1912

 

Charles B. Pratt…………………………………………………………………….1877-79

            Born February 14, 1824    Died May 9, 1898

 

Frank H. Kelly……………………………………………………………………..1880-81

            Born September 9, 1827    Died October 25, 1890

 

Elijah B. Stoddard……………………………………………………………………..1882

            Born June 5, 1826                Died September 27, 1903

 

Samuel E. Hildreth…………………………………………………………………….1883

            Born December 8, 1829    Died June 26, 1893

 

Charles G. Reed…………………………………………………………………1884-1885

            Born April 2, 1835                Died November 21, 1899

 

Samuel Winslow………………………………………………………………...1886-1889

            Born February 28, 1827    Died October 21, 1894

 

Francis A. Harrington……………………………………………………………...1890-92

            Born November 17, 1846    Died August 28, 1922

 

Henry A. Marsh……………………………………………………………………1893-95

            Born September 7, 1836    Died November 6, 1914   

 

Augustus B.R. Sprague…………………………………………………………….1896-97

            Born March 7, 1827             Died May 17, 1910

 

***Rufus B. Dodge, Jr.…………………………………………………………1898-1900

            Born November 24, 1861    Died December 13, 1935

 

 

***By reason of a tie vote for Mayor at the election of December 1900 whereby there was no choice, Rufus B. Dodge, Jr. held the office until February 25, 1901.

 

Philip J. O’Connell……………………………………………………………………1901

            Born December 18, 1870    Died March 2, 1931

 

 

Edward F. Fletcher………………………………………………………………..1902-03

            Born June 17, 1854              Died December 18, 1943

 

Walter H. Blodget…………………………………………………………………1904-05

            Born 1850                            Died January 6, 1923

 

John T. Duggan……………………………………………………………………1906-07

            Born October 27, 1855    Died September 5, 1927               

 

James Logan……………………………………………………………………….1908-11

            Born May 6, 1852                Died November 30, 1929

 

David F. O’Connell…………………………………………………………………..1912

            Born February 8, 1859    Died August 12, 1923

 

George M. Wright…………………………………………………………………1913-16

            Born April 12, 1865              Died January 7, 1926

 

Pehr F. Holmes…………………………………………………………………...1917-19

            Born 1881                            Died December 19, 1952

 

Peter F. Sullivan …………………………………………………………………1920-23

            Born June 29, 1871              Died May 21, 1931

 

Michael J. O’Hara………………………………………………………………..1924-31

            Born 1878                            Died February 3, 1946

 

John C. Mahoney………………………………………………………………….1932-35

            Born 1878                            Died July 12, 1946

 

Walter J. Cookson…………………………………………………………………1936

            Born April 17, 1876              Died June 11, 1936

 

****John S. Sullivan……………………………………………………………..1936-37

            Born December 18, 1875    Died April 12, 1949

 

William A. Bennett………………………………………………………………..1938-45

            Born March 7, 1887             Died September 15, 1970

 

****Elected October 6, 1936 to fill vacancy caused by the decease of Walter J. Cookson

 

 

Charles F. Jeff Sullivan………………………………………………………….1946-49

            Born October 10, 1904    Died August 24, 1962

 

Andrew B. Holmstrom……………………………………………………………1950-53

            Born April 10, 1895              Died January 13, 1970

 

James D. O’Brien…………………………………………………………1954-58, 60-61

            Born June 12, 1908              Died June 9, 1965 (resigned Jan. 2, 1959)

 

Joseph C. Casdin………………………………………………1959, September 1^st 1962 –                                                                                                                    -                                                                                                   April 30, 1963, 1967-1968

            Born March 10, 1914               

 

John M. Shea………………………………………………………Jan.– Aug.1962, 1969

Born December 8, 1902    Died Nov 3, 1988              Resigned Aug 31, 1962

                                                                                                Resigned Jan. 5, 1970

 

Paul V. Mullaney………………………………………………………………..1963-65

            Born November 22, 1919   

 

George A. Wells……………………………………………………………………….1966

            Born October 7, 1970                Died Oct. 19, 1978             (resigned Jan. 3, 1967)

                                                                                                                            1970

                                                                                               (resigned Jan. 4, 1971)    

 

Joseph M. Tinsley……………………………………………………………………..1971  

            Born June 23, 1915              Died April 2003                   (resigned Jan. 3, 1972)

                                                                                                                        1973, 1984-85  

                                                             

Thomas J. Early……………………………………………………………1972, 1976-79

Born July 18, 1917               Died Jan 23, 1992                  (resigned Jan. 2, 1973) 

 

Israel Katz………………………………………………………………………..1974-75

Born May 20, 1907              Died August 13, 1979

 

Jordan Levy…………………………………………………………….1980-81, 1988-93

            Born November 4, 1943

 

Sara Robertson……………………………………………………………………1982-83

            Born July 22, 1934

 

John B. Anderson……………………………………………………………………...1986

Born January 1, 1935                                                                                                         

 

Timothy J. Cooney, Jr…………………………………………………………...…….1987

            Born November 22, 1940

Raymond V. Mariano …………………………………………………………..1994-2001

            Born September 23, 1950

 

Timothy P. Murray……………………………………………………………...2002-2003

 

Born June 7, 1968