List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts

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

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]

#	Mayor	Picture	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[3]	Republican	Leave of absence due to military service.
41st	Arthur J. Frawley		1943[4]-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	Democrat	Resigned to become the Postmaster of Lynn.
46th	M. Henry Wall		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	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[5] – 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 – January 3, 2018
57th	Thomas M. McGee		January 3, 2018 - January 3, 2022
58th	Jared C. Nicholson		January 3, 2022 - Present		See also Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts Notes "A BRIEF HISTORY OF LYNN". About Lynn. City of Lynn. Retrieved 2021-12-01. 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. "Brief History of Lynn". City of Lynn. Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2009-10-16. Leave of absence due to military service Began as acting mayor, elected in own right Acting mayor References "List of Mayors". City of Lynn. Archived from the original on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2009-12-19. Further reading Yvonne Abraham (June 26, 2021), "Lynn, like many other cities in the Commonwealth, faces a momentous mayoral choice this fall", Boston Globe