List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts
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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.lynnma.gov/about/history.shtml |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF LYNN |author= |website=About Lynn |publisher=City of Lynn |access-date=2021-12-01 |quote=When the first official minister, Samuel Whiting, arrived from King’s Lynn, England, the new settlers were so excited that they changed the name of their community to Lynn in 1637 in honor of him.}} Lynn was incorporated as a city in 1850.{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/aboutlynn_history.shtml|title=Brief History of Lynn|publisher=City of Lynn|accessdate=2009-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829100613/http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/aboutlynn_history.shtml|archive-date=2012-08-29|url-status=dead}}
List
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! # !! Mayor !! Picture !! Term !! Party !! Notes |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|1st |50px | May 14, 1850 – June 16, 1852 | |
| 2nd
|50px |June 16, 1852 – April 4, 1853 | | |
| 3rd
|50px |April 4, 1853 – April 3, 1854 | | |
| 4th
|Thomas P. Richardson |50px |April 3, 1854 – January 1, 1855 | | |
| {{Party shading/Whig}}
|5th |50px |January 1, 1855 – January 7, 1856 |Whig | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|6th |50px | January 7, 1856 – January 4, 1858 | |
| 7th
|50px | January 4, 1858 – January 3, 1859 | | |
| 8th
|50px | January 3, 1859 – January 7, 1861 | | |
| {{Party shading/Socialist Labor}}
|9th |50px |January 7, 1861 – January 6, 1862 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|10th |50px |January 6, 1862 – January 1, 1866 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|11th |50px |January 1, 1866 – January 4, 1869 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|12th |50px |January 4, 1869 – January 3, 1870 | |
| 13th
|50px | January 3, 1870 – January 1, 1872 | | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|14th |50px |January 1, 1872 – January 6, 1873 | |
| 15th
|50px | January 6, 1873 – January 1, 1877 | | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|16th |50px |January 1, 1877 – January 6, 1879 | |
| {{Party shading/Greenback}}
|17th |50px |January 6, 1879 – January 3, 1881 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|18th |50px |January 3, 1881 – January 1, 1883 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|19th |50px |January 1, 1883 – January 5, 1885 | |
| 20th
|50px |January 5, 1885 – January 4, 1886 | | |
| 21st
|50px |January 4, 1886 – 1887 | | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|22nd |50px |1888–1888 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|23rd |50px |1889–1890 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|24th |50px |1891–1891 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|25th |50px |1892–1893 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|26th |50px | 1894–1895 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|27th |50px | 1896–1896 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|28th |50px |1897–1898 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|29th |50px | 1899–1902 | |
| 30th
|50px | 1903–1905 | | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|31st |50px | 1906–1907 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|32nd |50px | 1908–1909 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|33rd | | 1909–1910 | |
| 34th
| | 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. |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|35th |50px | 1913–1917 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|36th |50px | 1918–1921 |In 1917 the city returned to a mayor and city council form of government. |
| 37th
| |1922–1925 | | |
| 38th
| | 1926–1930 | | |
| 39th
| | 1930–1939 | | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|40th |50px | 1940–1943Leave of absence due to military service |Leave of absence due to military service. |
| 41st
| | 1943Began as acting mayor, elected in own right-1945 | |Began as acting mayor, elected in own right. |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|42nd |50px | 1946–1947 | |
| 43rd
| | 1948–1951 | | |
| 44th
| | 1952–1955 | | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|45th | | 1956 – July 3, 1961 |Resigned to become the Postmaster of Lynn. |
| 46th
| |July 3, 1961 – 1965 | |As city council president, when Mayor Costin submitted his resignation, pursuant to the city charter, Wall became mayor. Wall was elected in his own right in the 1961 election. |
| 47th
| | 1966–1969 | | |
| 48th
| | 1970 – January 1972 | | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|49th |50px |January 1972 – April 1972 |Died in office. |
| Acting
| | April 1972Acting mayor – July 1972 | |Acting mayor. |
| 50th
| |July 1972 – 1973 | | |
| 51st
| | 1974–1975 | | |
| 52nd
| | 1976–1985 | | |
| 53rd
| | 1986–1991 | | |
| 54th
| | 1992–2001 | | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|55th |50px | 2002 – January 4, 2010 | |
| {{Party shading/Republican}}
|56th | | January 4, 2010 – January 3, 2018 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|57th | 50px | January 3, 2018 – January 3, 2022 | |
| {{Party shading/Democratic}}
|58th | |January 3, 2022 – present | |
See also
Notes
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References
- {{cite web|url=http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/cityhall_mayorslist.shtml |title=List of Mayors |publisher=City of Lynn |accessdate=2009-12-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211104558/http://www.ci.lynn.ma.us/cityhall_mayorslist.shtml |archivedate=2009-12-11 }}
Further reading
- {{citation |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/26/metro/mayoral-make-or-break/ |work=Boston Globe |title=Lynn, like many other cities in the Commonwealth, faces a momentous mayoral choice this fall
|author= Yvonne Abraham |date=June 26, 2021 }}
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