This is a list of mayors of Taunton in the U.S. state of 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 | 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 | 1876 | [1] [2] |
| 6th | Onias S. Paige | 1877 | 1879 | [2] |
| 7th | Charles F. Johnson | 1880 | 1882 | [2] |
| 8th | Horatio Cushman | 1883 | [2] | |
| 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 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 | February 20, 1941 | Died in Office |
| Acting | Harold B. Johnston | February 20, 1941 | April 30, 1941 | |
| 34th | Merrill Aldrich | April 30, 1941 | November 25, 1946 | Won special election to succeed Fitzgerald. Resigned to serve prison sentence for Cohabitation. [3] |
| Acting | Frederick H. Smith | November 25, 1946 | February 7, 1947 | |
| 35th | John F. Parker | 1947 | 1953 | Won special election to succeed Aldrich. |
| 36th | Joseph C. Chamberlain | 1953 | 1960 | [3] |
| 37th | Bernard F. Cleary | 1960 | 1963 | Died in office shortly before completing his final term. [3] |
| 38th | Benjamin A. Friedman | 1963 | 1970 | [3] |
| 39th | Joseph E. Flood | 1970 | 1972 | [3] |
| 40th | Rudolph H. De Silva | 1972 | 1974 | [3] |
| 41st | Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr. | 1974 | 1976 | [3] |
| 42nd | Benjamin A. Friedman | 1976 | 1978 | [3] |
| 43rd | Joseph L. Amaral | 1978 | 1982 | [3] |
| 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. [4] 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 | November 13, 2019 | Resigned to become interim Register of Probate for Bristol County, appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker. [5] |
| Acting | Jeffrey Postell | November 13, 2019 | November 23, 2019 | Taunton city council president; became acting mayor until the council voted to select one of its members as acting mayor. [6] |
| 50th | Donald Cleary | November 23, 2019 | January 6, 2020 | City councilor, elected by a 5–4 vote of the council to serve the balance of Mayor Hoye's term. [6]
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| 51st | Shaunna O'Connell | January 6, 2020 | Incumbent | First elected female mayor of Taunton. [6] Former State Representative for the 3rd Bristol district, which includes most of Taunton (wards 1, 2, 5, 7, and 8, as well as precinct A of ward 3) and precinct 6 of Easton. [8] |
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