List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts

The first Mayor of Lynn

This is a list of Mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts, USA.

The area known today as the city of Lynn was originally part of a larger area named Saugus (part of which lives on as the Town of Saugus). It was renamed "Lynn" in 1637 in honor of King's Lynn in England. Lynn was incorporated as a city in 1850.^[1]

This is a list of Mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts.

#	Mayor	Term	Party	Notes
1st	George Hood	May 14, 1850 – June 16, 1852	Democratic
2nd	Benjamin F. Mudge	June 16, 1852 – April 4, 1853
3rd	Daniel C. Baker	April 4, 1853 – April 3, 1854
4th	Thomas P. Richardson	April 3, 1854 – January 1, 1855
5th	Andrews Breed	January 1, 1855 – January 7, 1856
6th	Ezra W. Mudge	January 7, 1856 – January 4, 1858	Democratic
7th	William F. Johnson	January 4, 1858 – January 3, 1859
8th	Edward S. Davis	January 3, 1859 – January 7, 1861
9th	Hiram N. Breed	January 7, 1861 – January 6, 1862	Workingmen's Party
10th	Peter M. Neal	January 6, 1862 – January 1, 1866
11th	Roland G. Usher	January 1, 1866 – January 4, 1869	Republican
12th	James N. Buffum	January 4, 1869 – January 3, 1870
13th	Edwin Walden	January 3, 1870 – January 1, 1872
14th	James N. Buffum	January 1, 1872 – January 6, 1873
15th	Jacob M. Lewis	January 6, 1873 – January 1, 1877
16th	Samuel M. Bubier	January 1, 1877 – January 6, 1879	Republican
17th	George Plaisted Sanderson	January 6, 1879 – January 3, 1881	Greenback
18th	Henry B. Lovering	January 3, 1881 – January 1, 1883	Democrat
19th	William L. Baird	January 1, 1883 – January 5, 1885	Republican
20th	John R. Baldwin	January 5, 1885 – January 4, 1886
21st	George D. Hart	January 4, 1886–1887
22nd	George C. Higgins	1888–1888	Republican
23rd	Asa T. Newhall	1889–1890	Democrat
24th	E. Knowlton Fogg	1891–1891	Republican
25th	Elihu B. Hayes	1892–1893	Republican
26th	Charles E. Harwood	1894–1895	Republican
27th	Eugene A. Besson	1896–1896	Republican
28th	Walter L. Ramsdell	1897–1898	Democrat
29th	William Shepherd	1899–1902	Republican
30th	Henry W. Eastham	1903–1905
31st	Charles Neal Barney	1906–1907	Republican
32nd	Thomas F. Porter	1908–1909	Republican
33rd	James E. Rich	1909–1910	Democrat
34th	William P. Connery, Sr.	1911–1912		From 1910 to 1917 the Mayor was chosen under the Commission form of government. The Mayoralty was held by the Commissioner of public safety.
35th	George H. Newhall	1913–1917	Republican
36th	Walter H. Creamer	1918–1921		In 1917 the city returned to a Mayor and city council form of Government.
37th	Harland A. McPhetres	1922–1925
38th	Ralph S. Bauer	1926–1930
39th	J. Fred Manning	1930–1939
40th	Albert Cole	1940–1943^[2]	Republican	Leave of absence due to military service.
41st	Arthur J. Frawley	1943^[3]-1945		Began as acting mayor, elected in own right.
42nd	Albert Cole	1946–1947	Republican
43rd	Stuart A. Tarr	1948–1951
44th	Arthur J. Frawley	1952–1955
45th	Thomas P. Costin, Jr.	1956 – July 3, 1961		Resigned to become the Postmaster of Lynn.
46th	M. Henry Wall	July 3, 1961 – 1965		As city council president when Costin submitted his resignation, pursuant to the city charter Wall became mayor. Wall was elected in his own right in the 1961 election.
47th	Irving E. Kane	1966–1969
48th	J. Warren Cassidy	1970 – January 1972
49th	Pasquale Caggiano	January 1972 – April 1972	Democrat	Died in office.
Acting	Walter F. Meserve	April 1972^[4] – July 1972		Acting mayor.
50th	Antonio J. Marino	July 1972 – 1973
51st	David L. Phillips	1974–1975
52nd	Antonio J. Marino	1976–1985
53rd	Albert V. DiVirgilio	1986–1991
54th	Patrick J. McManus	1992–2001
55th	Edward J. Clancy, Jr.	2002 – January 4, 2010
56th	Judith Flanagan Kennedy	January 4, 2010 –