List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts
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This is a list of the past and present mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mayors
# | Mayor | Picture | Term | Party | Notes |
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1st | James D. Green | May 1846 – April 1848 | |||
2nd | Sidney Willard | April 1848 – April 1851 | |||
3rd | George Stevens | April 1851 – April 1853 | |||
4th | James D. Green | April 1853 – April 1854 | None | ||
5th | Abraham Edwards | April 1854 – January 1855 | |||
6th | Zebina L. Raymond | January 1855 – January 1856 | |||
7th | John Sargent | January 1855 – January 1860 | |||
8th | James D. Green | January 1860 – July 24, 1861 | |||
9th | Charles Theodore Russell | ![]() |
July 31, 1861 – January 1863 | ||
10th | George C. Richardson | January 1863 – January 1864 | |||
11th | Zebina L. Raymond | January 1864 – January 1865 | |||
12th | J. Warren Merrill | ![]() |
January 1865 – January 1867 | ||
13th | Ezra Parmenter | January 1867 – January 1868 | |||
14th | Charles H. Saunders | January 1868 – January 1870 | |||
15th | Hamlin R. Harding | January 1870 – January 1872 | |||
16th | Henry Oscar Houghton | ![]() |
January 1872 – January 1873 | ||
17th | Isaac Bradford | ![]() |
January 1873 – January 1877 | Democratic | |
18th | Frank Augustus Allen | January 1877 – January 1878 | |||
19th | Samuel L. Montague | ![]() |
January 1878 – January 1880 | ||
20th | James Morris Whiton Hall | January 1880 – January 1881 | |||
21st | James Augustus Fox | ![]() |
January 1881 – January 1885 | ||
22nd | William Russell | ![]() |
January 1885 – January 1889 | Democratic | |
23rd | Henry Gilmore | January 1889 – January 1891 | |||
24th | Alpheus B. Alger | ![]() |
January 1891 – January 1892 | ||
25th | William Bancroft | ![]() |
January 1893 – January 1897 | ||
26th | Alvin F. Sortwell | ![]() |
January 1897 – January 1899 | ||
27th | Edgar R. Champlin | ![]() |
January 1899 – January 1901 | Republican | |
28th | David T. Dickinson | ![]() |
January 1901 – January 1902 | Republican | |
29th | John H. H. McNamee | January 1902 – January 1904 | |||
30th | Augustine J. Daly | January 1904 – January 1906 | |||
31st | Charles H. Thurston | January 1906 – January 1907 | |||
32nd | Walter C. Wardwell | January 1907 – April 1909 | |||
33rd | William F. Brooks | April 1908 – April 1911 | |||
34th | J. Edward Barry | April 1911 – April 1914 | |||
35th | Timothy W. Good | April 1914 – January 3, 1916 | |||
36th | Wendell D. Rockwood | January 3, 1916 – January 1918 | |||
37th | Edward W. Quinn | January 1918 – January 1930 | |||
38th | Richard M. Russell | ![]() |
January 1930 – January 1936 | Democratic | |
39th | John D. Lynch | January 1936 – January 1938 | |||
40th | John W. Lyons | January 1938 – July 22, 1941 | |||
41st | Francis C. Sennott | July 23, 1941 – January 1, 1942 | Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter. | ||
42nd | John H. Corcoran | 1942 – December 28, 1945 | Democratic | Beginning of the weak Mayor/City Manager form of government | |
43rd | John D. Lynch | 1946–1947 | |||
44th | Michael Neville | 1948–1949 | |||
45th | Edward Crane | 1950–1951 | |||
46th | Joseph DeGuglielmo | 1952–1953 | |||
47th | John J. Foley | 1954–1955 | |||
48th | Edward J. Sullivan | 1956–1957 | |||
49th | Tom McNamara | 1958–1959 | |||
50th | Edward Crane | 1960–1965 | |||
51st | Daniel Hayes | 1966–1967 | |||
52nd | Walter Sullivan | 1968–1969 | |||
53rd | Alfred Vellucci | 1970–1971 | |||
54th | Barbara Ackermann | 1972–1973 | |||
55th | Walter Sullivan | 1974–1975 | |||
56th | Alfred Vellucci | 1976–1977 | |||
57th | Thomas Danehy | 1978–1979 | |||
58th | Francis Duehay | 1980–1981 | |||
59th | Alfred Vellucci | 1982–1983 | |||
60th | Leonard J. Russell | 1984–1985 | |||
61st | Francis Duehay | 1985 | |||
62nd | Walter Sullivan | 1986–1987 | |||
63rd | Alfred Vellucci | 1988–1989 | |||
64th | Alice Wolf | 1990–1991 | |||
65th | Kenneth Reeves | 1992–1995 | |||
66th | Sheila Russell | 1996–1997 | |||
67th | Francis Duehay | 1998–1999 | |||
68th | Anthony Galluccio | 2000–2001 | |||
69th | Michael A. Sullivan | 2002–2005 | |||
70th | Kenneth Reeves | 2006–2007 | |||
71st | E. Denise Simmons | 2008–2009 | |||
72nd | David P. Maher | 2010 – 2011 | |||
73rd | Henrietta Davis | 2012–2013 | |||
74th | David P. Maher | 2014 – Present |
City managers
# | City Manager | Term | Notes |
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1st | John B. Atkinson | 1942 – 1952 | |
2nd | John J. Curry | 1952 – 1966 | |
3rd | Joseph DeGuglielmo | 1966 – 1968 | |
4th | James Sullivan | 1968 – 1970 | |
5th | John H. Corcoran | 1970 – 1974 | |
6th | James Sullivan | 1974 – 1981 | |
7th | Robert W. Healy | 1981 – 2013 | |
8th | Richard Rossi | 2013 – present |
References
- Arthur Gilman (1896). The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Riverside Press. p. 63. List of the mayors from 1845 to 1896.
- The Mayors of Cambridge since 1893 from the Cambridge Civic Journal
- Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts from The Political Graveyard
- Organizational chart – Cambridge Municipal Government structure