List of mayors of Brockton, Massachusetts

This is a list of the past and present mayors and city managers of Brockton, Massachusetts.

Mayors[]

#	Mayor	Picture	Term	Party	Notes
1st	Ziba Cary Keith		1882–1883	Republican
2nd			1883–1884
3rd	Ziba Cary Keith		1884–1885	Republican
4th			1886–1887	Republican
5th			1888–1889
6th	William Lewis Douglas		1890–1891	Democrat
7th	Ziba Cary Keith		1892–1893	Republican
8th			1894–1895
9th			1896–1897
10th			1898–1898
11th			1899–1899
12th			1900–1901	Socialist Party of America
13th			1902–1902
14th			1904–1905
15th			1905–1906
16th			1907–1909
17th			1910–1910
18th			1911–1912
19th			1913–1913
20th			1914–1914
21st			1915–1916
22nd			1917–1917
23rd			1918–1920
24th			1921–1922
25th	Frank A. Manning		1923–1924
26th			1925–1925	Republican
27th			1926–1931	Republican
28th			1932–1935	Republican
29th			1936–1937	Democrat
30th			1938–1941	Republican
31st			1942 – November 3, 1949	Democrat	Died in office
Acting			November 3, 1949 – January 2, 1950		City Council President. Served as acting mayor following the death of Joseph H. Downey.
32nd	Melvin B. Clifford		1950–1951	Republican
33rd	C. Gerald Lucey		1952–1955	Democrat
34th			1956–1957	Republican	Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan D Charter.
35th			1958–1959		First Ceremonial Mayor appointed under Plan D form of Government
36th			1960–1961		Last Ceremonial Mayor appointed under Plan D form of Government
37th			1962–1963	Democrat	First Mayor after the City Manager form of government was abolished.
38th			1964–1967	Republican
39th	John E. Sullivan		1968–1971	Democrat
40th			1972–1973	Republican
41st			1974–1982	Democrat	Last mayor elected in partisan election. Served as interim mayor from January to June 1982 while the results of the 1981 election were challenged in court.
42nd	Paul V. Studenski		June 1982 – January 1984		First mayor elected in nonpartisan election. Elected in special election after the result of the 1981 mayor election was thrown out by the State Appeals Court.
43rd			1984–1992
44th			1992–1996
45th	Jack Yunits		1996–2006
46th	James E. Harrington		2006–2010
47th	Linda Balzotti		2010–2014
48th	William Carpenter		2014–July 2, 2019		Died in office
49th	Moises Rodrigues		July 2, 2019-January 6, 2020		Councilor-At-Large. Served as acting mayor following the death of William Carpenter.
50th	Robert F. Sullivan		January 6, 2020–Present

City managers[]

From 1958 to 1961, Brockton was led by a City Manager under the Plan D form of government.

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