List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts

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

George Hood, the first mayor of Lynn

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.^[1] Lynn was incorporated as a city in 1850.^[2]

List

No.	Mayor		Term	Party		Election
1		George Hood (1794–1859)	May 14, 1850 – June 16, 1852		Democratic	1849
						1850
2		Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817–1879)	June 16, 1852 – April 4, 1853		Independent	1851
3		Daniel C. Baker (1816–1863)	April 4, 1853 – April 3, 1854		Independent	1852
4		Thomas P. Richardson (TBA–TBA)	April 3, 1854 – January 1, 1855		Independent	1853
5		Andrews Breed (1794–1881)	January 1, 1855 – January 7, 1856		Whig	1854
6		Ezra W. Mudge (1811–1878)	January 7, 1856 – January 4, 1858		Democratic	1855
						1856
7		William F. Johnson (1819–1898)	January 4, 1858 – January 3, 1859		Independent	1857
8		Edward S. Davis (1808–1887)	January 3, 1859 – January 7, 1861		Independent	1858
						1859
9		Hiram N. Breed (1809–1893)	January 7, 1861 – January 6, 1862		Workingmen's	1860
10		Peter M. Neal (1811–1908)	January 6, 1862 – January 1, 1866		Republican	1861
						1862
						1863
						1864
11		Roland G. Usher (1823–1895)	January 1, 1866 – January 4, 1869		Republican	1865
						1866
						1867
12		James N. Buffum (1807–1887) 1st time	January 4, 1869 – January 3, 1870		Republican	1868
13		Edwin Walden (1818–1889)	January 3, 1870 – January 1, 1872		Independent	1869
						1870
14		James N. Buffum (1807–1887) 2nd time	January 1, 1872 – January 6, 1873		Republican	1871
15		Jacob M. Lewis (1823–1905)	January 6, 1873 – January 1, 1877		Independent	1872
						1873
						1874
						1875
16		Samuel M. Bubier (1816–1894)	January 1, 1877 – January 6, 1879		Republican	1876
						1877
17		George Plaisted Sanderson (1836–1915)	January 6, 1879 – January 3, 1881		Greenback	1878
						1879
18		Henry B. Lovering (1841–1911)	January 3, 1881 – January 1, 1883		Democratic	1880
						1881
19		William L. Baird (1843–1916)	January 1, 1883 – January 5, 1885		Republican	1882
						1883
20		John R. Baldwin (1854–1897)	January 5, 1885 – January 4, 1886		Independent	1884
21		George D. Hart (1846–1932)	January 4, 1886 – 1888		Independent	1885
						1886
22		George C. Higgins (1845–1933)	1888 – 1889		Republican	1887
23		Asa T. Newhall (1846–1937)	1889 – January 5, 1891		Democratic	1888
						1889
24		E. Knowlton Fogg (1837–1900)	January 5, 1891 – 1892		Republican	1890
25		Elihu B. Hayes (1848–1903)	1892 – 1894		Republican	1891
						1892
26		Charles E. Harwood (1851–1924)	1894 – 1896		Republican	1893
						1894
27		Eugene A. Bessom (1855–1913)	1896 – 1897		Republican	1895
28		Walter L. Ramsdell (1860–1909)	1897 – 1899		Democratic	1896
						1897
29		William Shepherd (1837–1907)	1899 – 1903		Republican	1898
						1899
						1900
						1901
30		Henry W. Eastham (TBA–TBA)	1903 – 1906		Independent	1902
						1903
						1904
31		Charles Neal Barney (1875–1949)	1906 – 1908		Republican	1905
						1906
32		Thomas F. Porter (1847–1927)	1908 – 1909		Republican	1907
33		James E. Rich (1869–1961)	1909 – 1911		Democratic	1908
						1909
34		William P. Connery Sr. (1855–1928)	1911 – 1913		Independent	1910[a]
						1911[a]
35		George H. Newhall (1850–1923)	1913 – 1918		Republican	1912[a]
						1913[a]
						1914[a]
						1915[a]
						1916[a]
36		Walter H. Creamer (1860–1937)	1918 – 1922		Democratic	1917[b]
						1919
37		Harland A. McPhetres (1892–1972)	1922 – 1926		Independent	1921
						1923
38		Ralph S. Bauer (1867–1941)	1926 – 1930		Independent	1925
						1927
39		J. Fred Manning (1875–1955)	1930 – 1940		Independent	1929
						1931
						1933
						1935
						1937
40		Albert Cole (1904–1966) 1st time	1940 – 1943 (stepped down)[c]		Republican	1939
						1941
–		Arthur J. Frawley (c.1899–1969) 1st time	1943 – 1944		Independent	–
41			1944 – 1946 (lost election)			1943
42		Albert Cole (1904–1966) 2nd time	1946 – 1948		Republican	1945
43		Stuart A. Tarr (TBA–TBA)	1948 – 1952		Independent	1947
						1949
44		Arthur J. Frawley (c.1899–1969) 2nd time	1952 – 1956		Independent	1951
						1953
45		Thomas P. Costin Jr. (1926–2025)	1956 – July 3, 1961 (resigned)[d]		Democratic	1955
						1957
						1959
46		M. Henry Wall (1899–1970)	July 3, 1961[e] – 1965		Independent	–
						1961
						1963
47		Irving E. Kane (1930–2019)	1966 – 1970		Independent	1965
						1967
48		J. Warren Cassidy (1930–2024)	1970 – January 1972		Democratic	1969
49		Pasquale Caggiano (1909–1972)	January 1972 – April 13, 1972 (died in office)		Democratic	1971
–		Walter F. Meserve (1921–1984) Acting	April 13, 1972 – July 11, 1972 (successor took office)		Independent	–
50		Antonio J. Marino (1921–2013) 1st time	July 11, 1972 – 1974		Independent	1972 special
51		David L. Phillips (born 1938)	1974 – 1976		Independent	1973
52		Antonio J. Marino (1921–2013) 2nd time	1976 – 1986 (lost election)		Independent	1975
						1977
						1979
						1981
						1983
53		Albert V. DiVirgilio (born 1942)	1986 – 1992 (lost election)		Independent	1985
						1987
						1989
54		Patrick J. McManus (1954–2009)	1992 – 2002		Independent	1991
						1993
						1995
						1997
						1999
55		Edward J. Clancy Jr. (1950–2021)	2002 – January 4, 2010 (lost election)		Democratic	2001
						2005
56		Judith Flanagan Kennedy (born TBA)	January 4, 2010 – January 3, 2018 (lost election)		Republican	2009
						2013
57		Thomas M. McGee (born 1955)	January 3, 2018 – January 3, 2022		Democratic	2017
58		Jared C. Nicholson (born 1985)	January 3, 2022 – present		Democratic	2021

Notes

1. From 1910 to 1917, the mayor was chosen under the commission form of government. The mayoralty was held by the Commissioner of Public Safety.
2. In 1917, the city returned to a mayor and city council form of government.
3. Cole stepped down to serve in the United States Army in World War II.
4. Costin resigned to become Postmaster of Lynn.
5. As city council president, Wall became mayor upon the resignation of Costin.

See also

• Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts