List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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This is a list of the past and present mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mayors[]

# Mayor Picture Term Party Notes
1st James D. Green May 1846 – April 1848
2nd Sidney Willard April 1848 – April 1851
3rd George Stevens April 1851 – April 1853
4th James D. Green April 1853 – April 1854 None
5th Abraham Edwards April 1854 – January 1855
6th Zebina L. Raymond January 1855 – January 1856
7th John Sargent January 1855 – January 1860
8th James D. Green January 1860 – July 24, 1861
9th Charles Theodore Russell Charles Theodore Russell.png July 31, 1861 – January 1863
10th George C. Richardson January 1863 – January 1864
11th Zebina L. Raymond January 1864 – January 1865
12th J. Warren Merrill J. Warren Merrill.png January 1865 – January 1867
13th Ezra Parmenter January 1867 – January 1868
14th Charles H. Saunders January 1868 – January 1870
15th Hamlin R. Harding January 1870 – January 1872
16th Henry Oscar Houghton 1846 HenryOscarHoughton.png January 1872 – January 1873
17th Isaac Bradford Isaac Bradford.png January 1873 – January 1877 Democratic
18th Frank Augustus Allen January 1877 – January 1878
19th Samuel L. Montague Samuel L. Montague.png January 1878 – January 1880
20th James Morris Whiton Hall January 1880 – January 1881
21st James Augustus Fox James Augustus Fox.png January 1881 – January 1885
22nd William Russell WilliamERussell.png January 1885 – January 1889 Democratic
23rd Henry Gilmore January 1889 – January 1891
24th Alpheus B. Alger Alpehus B. Alger.png January 1891 – January 1892
25th William Bancroft William Bancroft.png January 1893 – January 1897
26th Alvin F. Sortwell Alvin F. Sortwell.png January 1897 – January 1899
27th Edgar R. Champlin Edgar R. Champlin.png January 1899 – January 1901 Republican
28th David T. Dickinson David T. Dickinson 1895.png January 1901 – January 1902 Republican
29th John H. H. McNamee January 1902 – January 1904
30th Augustine J. Daly January 1904 – January 1906
31st January 1906 – January 1907
32nd Walter C. Wardwell January 1907 – April 1909
33rd April 1908 – April 1911
34th J. Edward Barry April 1911 – April 1914
35th Timothy W. Good April 1914 – January 3, 1916
36th Wendell D. Rockwood January 3, 1916 – January 1918
37th Edward W. Quinn January 1918 – January 1930
38th Richard M. Russell January 1930 – January 1936 Democratic
39th John D. Lynch January 1936 – January 1938
40th John W. Lyons January 1938 – July 22, 1941
41st July 23, 1941 – January 1, 1942 Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter.
42nd John H. Corcoran 1942 – December 28, 1945 Democratic Beginning of the weak Mayor/City Manager form of government
43rd John D. Lynch 1946–1947
44th 1948–1949
45th 1950–1951
46th Joseph DeGuglielmo 1952–1953
47th 1954–1955
48th Edward J. Sullivan 1956–1957
49th Tom McNamara 1958–1959
50th 1960–1965
51st 1966–1967
52nd Walter Sullivan 1968–1969
53rd Alfred Vellucci 1970–1971
54th Barbara Ackermann 1972–1973
55th Walter Sullivan 1974–1975
56th Alfred Vellucci 1976–1977
57th Thomas Danehy 1978–1979
58th Francis Duehay 1980–1981
59th Alfred Vellucci 1982–1983
60th Leonard J. Russell 1984–1985
61st Francis Duehay 1985
62nd Walter Sullivan 1986–1987
63rd Alfred Vellucci 1988–1989
64th Alice Wolf Alice Wolf.jpg 1990–1991
65th Kenneth Reeves 1992–1995
66th Sheila Russell 1996–1997
67th Francis Duehay 1998–1999
68th Anthony Galluccio 2000–2001
69th Michael A. Sullivan 2002–2005
70th Kenneth Reeves 2006–2007
71st E. Denise Simmons 2008–2009
72nd David P. Maher 2010–2011
73rd Henrietta Davis 2012–2013
74th David P. Maher 2014–2015
75th E. Denise Simmons Photo of Mayor E. Denise Simmons.jpg 2016–2017
76th Marc C. McGovern 2018–2019
77th 2020–present

City managers[]

# City Manager Term Notes
1st John B. Atkinson 1942 – 1952
2nd John J. Curry 1952 – 1966
3rd Joseph DeGuglielmo 1966 – 1968
4th James Sullivan 1968 – 1970
5th John H. Corcoran 1970 – 1974
6th James Sullivan 1974 – 1981
7th Robert W. Healy 1981 – 2013
8th Richard Rossi 2013 – 2016
9th Louis A. DePasquale 2016 – present

References[]

  • Arthur Gilman (1896). The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Riverside Press. p. 63. List of the mayors from 1845 to 1896.
  • The Mayors of Cambridge since 1893 from the
  • Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts from The Political Graveyard
  • Organizational chart – Cambridge Municipal Government structure
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