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		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		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	50px	January 1872 – January 1873
17th	Isaac Bradford		January 1873 – January 1877	Democratic
18th	Frank Augustus Allen		January 1877 – January 1878
19th	Samuel L. Montague	50px	January 1878 – January 1880
20th	James Morris Whiton Hall		January 1880 – January 1881
21st	James Augustus Fox		January 1881 – January 1885
22nd	William Russell		January 1885 – January 1889	Democratic
23rd	Henry Gilmore		January 1889 – January 1891
24th	Alpheus B. Alger		January 1891 – January 1892
25th	William Bancroft	50px	January 1893 – January 1897
26th	Alvin F. Sortwell		January 1897 – January 1899
27th	Edgar R. Champlin		January 1899 – January 1901	Republican
28th	David T. Dickinson		January 1901 – January 1902	Republican
29th	John H. H. McNamee		January 1902 – January 1904
30th	Augustine J. Daly		January 1904 – January 1906
31st	Charles H. Thurston		January 1906 – January 1907
32nd	Walter C. Wardwell		January 1907 – April 1909
33rd	William F. Brooks		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	50px	January 1930 – January 1936	Democratic
39th	John D. Lynch		January 1936 – January 1938
40th	John W. Lyons		January 1938 – July 22, 1941
41st	Francis C. Sennott		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	Michael Neville		1948–1949
45th	Edward Crane		1950–1951
46th	Joseph DeGuglielmo		1952–1953
47th	John J. Foley		1954–1955
48th	Edward J. Sullivan		1956–1957
49th	Tom McNamara		1958–1959
50th	Edward Crane		1960–1965
51st	Daniel Hayes		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		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		2016–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 – present

References

• List of the mayors from 1845 to 1896.
• The Mayors of Cambridge since 1893 from the Cambridge Civic Journal
• Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts from The Political Graveyard
• Organizational chart – Cambridge Municipal Government structure