Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer,philanthropist,and Whig Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House and Senate from 1840 to 1851. He served as the 18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was a political ally and colleague of Daniel Webster. After a rapid rise in Massachusetts and national politics and one term as speaker,Winthrop succeeded Webster in the Senate. His re-election campaign resulted in a long,sharply contested defeat by Charles Sumner. He ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1851 but lost due to the state's majority requirement,marking the end of his political career and signaling the decline of the Massachusetts Whig Party.
Malcolm Edwin Nichols was a journalist and a U.S. political figure. Nichols served as the Mayor of Boston in the late 1920s. He came from a Boston Brahmin family and was the most recent Republican to serve in that post.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor,Menino was a member of Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
Maura A. Hennigan is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County,Massachusetts,Superior Court Criminal/Business Division. She is a former member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993,she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey.
Michael F. Flaherty is a politician who severely served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council for a cumulative ten terms. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected to the council in 1999,serving an initial five terms between 2000 until 2010. During this initial tenure,he served as vice president of the council in 2001 and as council president from 2002 to 2006. In 2009 he forwent reelection to a further term in order to run for mayor of Boston in that year's election,which he lost to incumbent mayor Thomas Menino. He ran unsuccessfully in 2011 to return to the council as an at-large member. In 2013,Flaherty again ran in the at-large city council race,and was returned to the council. He served five terms between 2014 and 2024. In 2023,he declined to seek reelection to an additional term.
John E. Kerrigan was the acting mayor of Boston in 1945 after then-Mayor Maurice J. Tobin became governor of Massachusetts.
The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston,Massachusetts,United States. It is made up of 13 members:9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councillors are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve. Boston uses a strong-mayor form of government in which the city council acts as a check against the power of the executive branch,the mayor. The council is responsible for approving the city budget;monitoring,creating,and abolishing city agencies;making land use decisions;and approving,amending,or rejecting other legislative proposals.
Robert Consalvo is a Massachusetts State Representative,the former chief of staff for Boston Public Schools,and a former member of the Boston City Council. For 12 years he represented District 5,which includes the Hyde Park,Roslindale,Readville,and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston,Massachusetts.
Christopher A. Iannella was a member of the Boston City Council in Boston,Massachusetts,for 33 years,spanning the late 1950s until his death. He also served eight one-year terms as City Council president.
Bruce Carlton Bolling was a politician and businessman in Boston,Massachusetts. He was a member of the Boston City Council and served as the council's first black president in the mid-1980s. He unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Boston in 1993.
John Robert Murphy was a Massachusetts politician and attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Boston Fire Department,Chairman of the Boston Finance Commission and in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature.
The Boston mayoral election of 1983 occurred on Tuesday,November 15,1983,between City Councillor Raymond Flynn and former State Representative Mel King. Flynn was elected to his first term,and inaugurated on Monday,January 2,1984.
The Boston mayoral election of 1967 occurred on Tuesday,November 7,1967,between Secretary of the Commonwealth Kevin White and Boston School Committee member Louise Day Hicks. White was elected to his first term,and inaugurated on Monday,January 1,1968.
The Boston mayoral election of 1959 occurred on Tuesday,November 3,1959,between former Boston City Council member John Frederick Collins and President of the Massachusetts Senate John E. Powers. Collins was elected to his first term,and was inaugurated on Monday,January 4,1960.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 15,1983,with preliminary elections on October 11,1983. This election transitioned the Council from having 9 members to having 13 members. All 13 seats were contested in both the preliminary and general election.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 5,1991. All thirteen seats were contested in the general election,and had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 24,1991.
The Boston mayoral election of 1933 occurred on Tuesday,November 7,1933. Former state treasurer Frederick Mansfield defeated five other candidates to be elected Mayor of Boston.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 2,1993. All thirteen seats were contested in the general election,while ten seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 21,1993.
The Boston mayoral election of 1925 occurred on Tuesday,November 3,1925. Malcolm Nichols,a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Senate,defeated nine other candidates to be elected mayor.
The Boston mayoral election of 1914 occurred on Tuesday,January 13,1914. James Michael Curley,member of the United States House of Representatives,was elected Mayor of Boston for the first time,defeating Thomas J. Kenny,president of the Boston City Council.
