List of mayors of Boston, Massachusetts

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This is a list of Mayors of Boston, Massachusetts.

Name	Start	End	Notes
John Phillips	1822
Josiah Quincy III	1823	1828
Harrison Gray Otis	1829	1831
Charles Wells	1832	1833
Theodore Lyman, Jr.	1834	1835
Samuel T. Armstrong	1836
Samuel A. Eliot	1837	1839
Jonathan Chapman	1840	1842
Martin Brimmer	1843	1844
Thomas A. Davis	1845
Josiah Quincy, Jr.	1846	1848
John P. Bigelow	1849	1851
Benjamin Seaver	1852	1853
Jerome V. C. Smith	1854	1855
Alexander H. Rice (R)	1856	1857
Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.	1858	1860
Joseph Wightman	1861	1862
Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr.	1863	1866	Second time
Otis Norcross	1867
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff	1868	1870
William Gaston	1871	1872
Henry L. Pierce	1873
Leonard R. Cutter	1873
Samuel C. Cobb	1874	1876
Frederick O. Prince	1877
Henry L. Pierce	1878		Second time
Frederick O. Prince	1879	1881	Second time
Samuel A. Green	1882
Albert Palmer	1883
Augustus P. Martin	1884
Hugh O'Brien	1885	1888
Thomas N. Hart	1889	1890
Nathan Matthews, Jr.	1891	1894
Edwin Upton Curtis	1895
Josiah Quincy	1896	1899
Thomas N. Hart	1900	1902	Second time
Patrick A. Collins (D)	1902	1905
Daniel A. Whelton	1905	1906	Acting mayor after Collins died in office
John F. Fitzgerald (D)	1906	1908
George A. Hibbard (R)	1908	1910
John F. Fitzgerald (D)	1910	1914	Second time
James Michael Curley (D)	1914	1918
Andrew J. Peters (D)	1918	1922
James Michael Curley (D)	1922	1926	Second time
Malcolm E. Nichols (R)	1926	1930
James Michael Curley (D)	1930	1934	Third time
Frederick W. Mansfield (D)	1934	1938
Maurice J. Tobin (D)	1938	1945
John E. Kerrigan (D)	1945	1946	Acting mayor after Tobin elected Governor
James Michael Curley (D)	1946	1950	Fourth time; jailed for 5 months during term
John B. Hynes (D)	1947		Acting mayor during incarceration of Curley
John B. Hynes (D)	1950	1960	Three terms
John F. Collins (D)	1960	1968	Two terms
Kevin H. White (D)	1968	1984	Four terms
Raymond L. Flynn (D)	1984	1993	Three terms
Thomas M. Menino (D)	1993	—	Incumbent; in fourth term