List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts

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. The first city government was inaugurated on January 2, 1865.

#	Mayor	Picture	Term Began	Term Ended	Notes
1st	Edmund H. Bennett		January 2, 1865	June 19, 1867	First mayor of Taunton; resigned June 19, 1867.[1]
2nd	Stephen H. Rhodes		June 19, 1867	1870	[1]
3rd	Daniel L. Mitchell		1870	1873	[1]
4th	William H. Fox		1873	1874	[1]
5th	George H. Babbitt		1874		[1]
6th	Onias S. Paige		1878
7th	Charles F. Johnson		1880	1882
8th	Horatio Cushman		1883
9th	Charles Hanson		1884	1885
10th	Richard Henry Hall		1886	1886
11th	Everett D. Godfrey		1887
12th	Richard Henry Hall		1888	1889
13th	Arthur Alger		1890
14th	Francis Babbitt		1891	1892
15th	Willis Hodgman		1894
16th	Charles A. Reed		1895
17th	Benjamin Morris		1896
18th	Nathaniel J.W. Fish		1897	1899
19th	Arthur Alger		1900
20th	John O'Hearn		1901
21st	Richard Everett Warner		1902	1905
22nd	John H. Eldredge		1905	1906
23rd	John B. Tracey		1906	1907
24th	Edgar Crossman		1908	1909
25th	William S. Woods		1910	1912
26th	Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth Fish		1912	1916
27th	William Flood		1916	1919	His son, Joseph E. Flood, Sr., was also to become Mayor in 1970–1972
28th	Leo Coughlin		1919	1925
29th	Andrew McGraw		1926	1929
30th	Wllis K. Hodgman, Jr.		1930	1932
31st	Andrew McGraw		1932	1935
32nd	Arthur Poole		1936	1939
33rd	John Fitzgerald		1940
34th	Merrill Aldrich		1941	November 1946	Resigned to serve prison sentence.[2]
35th	John F. Parker		1947	1953
36th	Joseph C. Chamberlain		1953	1960	[2]
37th	Bernard F. Cleary		1960	1963	Died in office shortly before completing his final term.[2]
38th	Benjamin A. Friedman		1963	1970	[2]
39th	Joseph E. Flood		1970	1972	[2]
40th	Rudolph H. De Silva		1972	1974	[2]
41st	Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr.		1974	1976	[2]
42nd	Benjamin A. Friedman		1976	1978	[2]
43rd	Joseph L. Amaral		1978	1982	[2]
44th	Richard Johnson		1982	1992
45th	Robert G. Nunes		1992	1999
46th	Thaddeus M. Strojny		2000	2003
47th	Robert G. Nunes		2004	March 12, 2007	Resigned to serve as Director of Municipal Affairs for Gov. Deval Patrick.[3] First mayor of Taunton to leave the office voluntarily before his term ended.
48th	Charles E. Crowley		March 12, 2007	January 2, 2012
49th	Thomas Hoye, Jr.		January 2, 2012	Incumbent

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