This is alist ofmayors ofLynn,Massachusetts, USA.

The area known today as the city of Lynn was originally part of a larger area named Saugus (part of which lives on as the Town ofSaugus). It was renamed "Lynn" in 1637 in honor ofKing's Lynn in England.^[1] Lynn was incorporated as a city in 1850.^[2]

No.	Mayor		Took office	Left office	Tenure	Party		Election
1		George Hood (1794–1859)	May 14, 1850	June 16, 1852	2 years, 33 days		Democratic	TBA
2		Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817–1879)	June 16, 1852	April 4, 1853	292 days		Independent	TBA
3		Daniel C. Baker (1816–1863)	April 4, 1853	April 3, 1854	364 days		Independent	TBA
4		Thomas P. Richardson (TBA–TBA)	April 3, 1854	January 1, 1855	273 days		Independent	TBA
5		Andrews Breed (1794–1881)	January 1, 1855	January 7, 1856	1 year, 6 days		Whig	TBA
6		Ezra W. Mudge (1811–1878)	January 7, 1856	January 4, 1858	1 year, 362 days		Democratic	TBA
7		William F. Johnson (1819–1898)	January 4, 1858	January 3, 1859	364 days		Independent	TBA
8		Edward S. Davis (1808–1887)	January 3, 1859	January 7, 1861	2 years, 4 days		Independent	TBA
9		Hiram N. Breed (1809–1893)	January 7, 1861	January 6, 1862	364 days		Workingmen's	TBA
10		Peter M. Neal (1811–1908)	January 6, 1862	January 1, 1866	3 years, 360 days		Republican	TBA
11		Roland G. Usher (1823–1895)	January 1, 1866	January 4, 1869	3 years, 3 days		Republican	TBA
12		James N. Buffum (1807–1887) 1st time	January 4, 1869	January 3, 1870	364 days		Republican	TBA
13		Edwin Walden (1818–1889)	January 3, 1870	January 1, 1872	1 year, 363 days		Independent	TBA
14		James N. Buffum (1807–1887) 2nd time	January 1, 1872	January 6, 1873	1 year, 5 days		Republican	TBA
15		Jacob M. Lewis (1823–1905)	January 6, 1873	January 1, 1877	3 years, 361 days		Independent	TBA
16		Samuel M. Bubier (1816–1894)	January 1, 1877	January 6, 1879	2 years, 5 days		Republican	TBA
17		George Plaisted Sanderson (1836–1915)	January 6, 1879	January 3, 1881	1 year, 363 days		Greenback	TBA
18		Henry B. Lovering (1841–1911)	January 3, 1881	January 1, 1883	1 year, 363 days		Democratic	TBA
19		William L. Baird (1843–1916)	January 1, 1883	January 5, 1885	2 years, 4 days		Republican	TBA
20		John R. Baldwin (1854–1897)	January 5, 1885	January 4, 1886	364 days		Independent	TBA
21		George D. Hart (1846–1932)	January 4, 1886	1888	1–2 years		Independent	TBA
22		George C. Higgins (1845–1933)	1888	1889	1 year		Republican	TBA
23		Asa T. Newhall (1846–1937)	1889	January 5, 1891	1–2 years		Democratic	TBA
24		E. Knowlton Fogg (1837–1900)	January 5, 1891	1892	1 year		Republican	TBA
25		Elihu B. Hayes (1848–1903)	1892	1894	2 years		Republican	TBA
26		Charles E. Harwood (1851–1924)	1894	1896	2 years		Republican	TBA
27		Eugene A. Bessom (1855–1913)	1896	1897	1 year		Republican	TBA
28		Walter L. Ramsdell (1860–1909)	1897	1899	2 years		Democratic	TBA
29		William Shepherd (1837–1907)	1899	1903	4 years		Republican	TBA
30		Henry W. Eastham (TBA–TBA)	1903	1906	3 years		Independent	TBA
31		Charles Neal Barney (1875–1949)	1906	1908	2 years		Republican	TBA
32		Thomas F. Porter (1847–1927)	1908	1909	1 year		Republican	TBA
33		James E. Rich (1869–1961)	1909	1911	2 years		Democratic	TBA
34		William P. Connery Sr. (1855–1928)	1911	1913	2 years		Independent	TBA[a]
35		George H. Newhall (1850–1923)	1913	1918	5 years		Republican	TBA[a]
36		Walter H. Creamer (1860–1937)	1918	1922	4 years		Democratic	TBA[b]
37		Harland A. McPhetres (1892–1972)	1922	1926	4 years		Independent	TBA
38		Ralph S. Bauer (1867–1941)	1926	1930	4 years		Independent	TBA
39		J. Fred Manning (1875–1955)	1930	1940	10 years		Independent	TBA
40		Albert Cole (1904–1966) 1st time	1940	1943[c]	3 years		Republican	TBA
–		Arthur J. Frawley (c. 1899–1969) 1st time	1943	1944	1 year		Independent	–
41			1944	1946	2 years			TBA
42		Albert Cole (1904–1966) 2nd time	1946	1948	2 years		Republican	TBA
43		Stuart A. Tarr (TBA–TBA)	1948	1952	4 years		Independent	TBA
44		Arthur J. Frawley (c. 1899–1969) 2nd time	1952	1956	4 years		Independent	TBA
45		Thomas P. Costin Jr. (1926–2025)	1956	July 3, 1961[d]	4–5 years		Democratic	TBA
46		M. Henry Wall (1899–1970)	July 3, 1961[e]	1965	3–4 years		Independent	–
								TBA
47		Irving E. Kane (1930–2019)	1966	1970	4 years		Independent	TBA
48		J. Warren Cassidy (1930–2024)	1970	January 1972	1–2 years		Democratic	TBA
49		Pasquale Caggiano (1909–1972)	January 1972	April 13, 1972[f]	2–3 months		Democratic	TBA
–		Walter F. Meserve (1921–1984) Acting	April 13, 1972	July 11, 1972	89 days		Independent	–
50		Antonio J. Marino (1921–2013) 1st time	July 11, 1972	1974	1–2 years		Independent	TBA
51		David L. Phillips (born 1938)	1974	1976	2 years		Independent	TBA
52		Antonio J. Marino (1921–2013) 2nd time	1976	1986	10 years		Independent	TBA
53		Albert V. DiVirgilio (born 1942)	1986	1992	6 years		Independent	TBA
54		Patrick J. McManus (1954–2009)	1992	2002	10 years		Independent	TBA
55		Edward J. Clancy Jr. (1950–2021)	2002	January 4, 2010	7–8 years		Democratic	TBA
56		Judith Flanagan Kennedy (born TBA)	January 4, 2010	January 3, 2018	7 years, 364 days		Republican	TBA
57		Thomas M. McGee (born 1955)	January 3, 2018	January 3, 2022	4 years, 0 days		Democratic	TBA
58		Jared C. Nicholson (born 1985)	January 3, 2022	Incumbent	4 years, 42 days		Democratic	2021

• Timeline of Lynn, Massachusetts

• "List of Mayors". City of Lynn. Archived fromthe original on December 11, 2009. RetrievedDecember 19, 2009.

• Yvonne Abraham (June 26, 2021),"Lynn, like many other cities in the Commonwealth, faces a momentous mayoral choice this fall",Boston Globe

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