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. [1] Lynn was incorporated as a city in 1850. [2]
| 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 | |
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| 30 |  | Henry W. Eastham (TBA–TBA) | 1903 – 1906 | Independent | 1902 | |
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| 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] | |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 | |
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.