List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts

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This is a list of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts. Taunton was led by a Board of Selectmen from 1639 until its re-incorporation as a city in 1864.

Mayor	Term Began	Term Ended	Notes
Edmund H. Bennett	1864		First mayor of Taunton and re-elected in 1866 and 1867
Stephan H. Rhodes	[1868-1869}
Daniel Mitchell	[1870-1872]
William H. Fox	[1873]
George Babbitt	[1874-1876]
Onias Paige	[1877-1879]
Charles Johnson	[1880-1882]
Horatio Cushman	[1883]
Charles Hanson	[1881-1885]
R. Henry Hall	[1888-1889]
Arthur Alger	[1890]
Francis Babbitt	[1891-1892]
Willis Hodgman	[1894]
Charles A. Reed	[1895]
Benjamin Morris	[1896]
Nathaniel J.W.Fish	[1897-1898]
Arthur Alger	[1900]
John O'Hearne	[1901]
Richard Warner	[1902-1904]
John H. Eldridge	[1905]
John B. Tracey	[1906-1907]
Edgar Crossman	[1908-1909}
William S. Woods	[1910-1911]
Nathaniel J.W. Fish	c. 1912
William J.Flood	[1916-1918]
Leo Coughlin	[1920-1925]
Andrew J. McGraw	[1932-1935]
Arthur Poole	[1936-1939]
John Fitzgerald	[1940]
Merrill Aldrich	[1940-1946]	November, 1946	Resigned to serve prison sentence.[1]
John F. Parker	[1947-1953]
Joseph C. Chamberlain	[1954-1959]	1960
Bernard F. Cleary	[1960-1963]
Benjamin A. Friedman	[1963-1969]
Joseph E. Flood	[1970-1971]
Rudolph H. DeSilva	[1972-1973]
Theodore J. Alexio, Jr.	[1974-1975]
Benjamin A. Friedman	[1976-1977]
Joseph L. Amaral	[1978-1981]
Richard Johnson	1982	1991
Robert G. Nunes	1992	1999
Thaddeus J. Strojny	[2000-2003]
Robert G. Nunes	[2004-March 12, 2007]	Resigned to serve as Director of Municipal Affairs for Gov. Deval Patrick.[2] First mayor of Taunton to leave the office voluntarily before his term ended.
Charles E. Crowley	[March 12, 2007 - Present]		Elected to a term in his own right on November 6, 2007.[3]

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