LIST OF MAYORS OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

The 'Mayor of Boston' is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has a strong mayor system. The Mayor’s Office is in Boston City Hall, in Government Center. There was no Mayor of Boston until 1822 because up till 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	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	None
7th	Samuel A. Eliot		1837 – 1839	None
8th	Jonathan Chapman		1840 – 1842	None
9th	Martin Brimmer		1843 – 1844	None
10th	Thomas A. Davis		1845 – 1845	None
11th	Josiah Quincy, Jr.		1846 – 1848	None
12th	John P. Bigelow		1849 – 1851	None
13th	Benjamin Seaver		1852 – 1853	None
14th	Jerome V.C. Smith		1854 – 1855	None
15th	Alexander H. Rice		1856 – 1857	Republican
16th	Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.		1858 – 1860	None
17th	Joseph Wightman		1861 – 1862	None
18th	Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.		1863 – 1866	None	Second time
19th	Otis Norcross		1867	None
20th	Nathaniel B. Shurtleff		1868 – 1870	None
21st	William Gaston		1871 – 1872	None
22nd	Henry L. Pierce		1873	None
23rd	Leonard R. Cutter		1873	None
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
32nd	Thomas N. Hart		1889 – 1890	None
33rd	Nathan Matthews, Jr.		1891 – 1894	None
34th	Edwin Upton Curtis		1895 – 1895	None
35th	Josiah Quincy		1896 – 1899	None
36th	Thomas N. Hart		1900 – 1902	None	Second time
37th	Patrick Collins		1902 – 1905	Democratic
A	Daniel A. Whelton		1905 – 1906	None	Acting mayor after Collins died in office
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		1984 – 1993	Democratic	Three terms
53rd	Thomas M. Menino		1993 – Present	Democratic	Incumbent; fourth term

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★ Lists of Mayors of Boston at The Political Graveyard