List of mayors of Boston, Massachusetts

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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 to that point Boston was still incorporated as a town. The current mayor is Thomas Menino.

The current Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino.

This is a list of Mayors of Boston, Massachusetts. "A" denotes an acting mayor:

#	Mayor	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	1836-1837	Whig
7th	Samuel A. Eliot	1838 – 1839	None
8th	Jonathan Chapman	1840 – 1842	None
9th	Martin Brimmer	1843 – 1844	None
10th	Thomas Aspinwall Davis	1845 – 1845	Native American Party
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
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	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; 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