Josiah Quincy, Jr.

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Josiah Quincy, Jr.

11th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
In office December 11, 1845 – January 1, 1849
Preceded by	Benson Leavitt
Succeeded by	John P. Bigelow
Personal details
Born	January 17, 1802 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	November 2, 1882(1882-11-02) (aged 80) Boston, Massachusetts
Political party	Whig
Mayor Davis died on November 22, 1845. Benson Leavitt, Chairman of the Board of Aldermen served as Acting Mayor from November 22, 1845 to December 11, 1845. After Quincy was elected Mayor on December 8, 1845 for the term beginning January 5, 1846, Quincy was appointed by the city council as acting mayor on December 11, 1845 to serve out Mayor Davis' term.

Josiah Quincy, Jr. (/ˈkwɪnzi/; January 17, 1802 – November 2, 1882)^[1] was mayor of Boston (December 11, 1845 - January 1, 1849), as was his father Josiah Quincy III (mayor 1823-1828) and grandson Josiah Quincy (mayor 1895-1899). He was the author of Figures of the Past (1883).^[2] As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1837, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He built the Josiah Quincy Mansion in 1848.^[3]

Family

Boston Skyline Circa 1847

His brother Edmund (1808–1877) was a prominent abolitionist, and author of the biography of his father and of a romance, Wensley (1854). His sister Eliza Susan (1798–1884) was her father's secretary and the biographer of her mother. ^[2]

He had two sons — Josiah Phillips (1829–1910), a lawyer, who wrote, besides some verse, The Protection of Majorities (1876) and Double Taxation in Massachusetts (1889); and Samuel Miller (1833–1887), who practised law, wrote on legal subjects, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and was breveted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865. ^[2]

Sources

William Guild, Description of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads: In which is Noted the Towns, Villages, Station, Bridges, Viaducts, Tunnels, Cuttings, Embankments, Gradients, &c., the Scenery and Its Natural History, and Other Objects Passed by this Line of Railway. With Numerous Illustrations, Boston?: Bradbury & Guild, 1847, p. 13.

References

↑ "Josiah Quincy Jr. - Boston Mayor from 1846 to 1848". Celebrateboston.com. Retrieved 2012-07-01.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chisholm 1911.
↑ Pepe, William J.; Elaine A. Pepe (2008). Postcard History Series: Quincy. Arcadia Publishing. p. 72. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Quincy, Josiah". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

External links

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z at Project Gutenberg, contains Quincy's speech of welcome to Boston for Charles Dickens.

Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Aspinwall Davis	Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts 1846 - 1848	Succeeded by John P. Bigelow

v t e Mayors of Boston, Massachusetts

Phillips Quincy III Otis Wells Lyman Armstrong Eliot Chapman Brimmer Davis Quincy, Jr. Bigelow Seaver Smith Rice Lincoln Wightman Lincoln Norcross Shurtleff Gaston Pierce Cutter* Cobb Prince Pierce Prince Green Palmer Martin O'Brien Hart Matthews Curtis Quincy Hart Collins Whelton* Fitzgerald Hibbard Fitzgerald Curley Peters Curley Nichols Curley Mansfield Tobin Kerrigan* Curley Hynes* Curley Hynes Collins White Flynn Menino Walsh

* denotes acting

Persondata
Name	Quincy, Josiah Jr.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	January 17, 1802
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
Date of death	November 2, 1882
Place of death	Boston, Massachusetts

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