List of mayors and city managers of Lowell, Massachusetts
Mayors

List of mayors and city managers of Lowell, Massachusetts

Section Title: Mayors
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#	Mayor	Picture	Term	Party	Notes

1st	Elisha Bartlett	1836–1838	Whig

2nd	Luther Lawrence	1838 – April 17, 1839	Federalist

A	Elisha Huntington	April 1839 – April 1840	Whig	Became acting mayor after the death of Luther Lawrence in April 1839.

3rd	Elisha Huntington	April 1840 – April 1842	Whig

4th	Nathaniel Wright	April 1842 – April 1844	Citizens ticket, (1842); Whig (1843)

5th	Elisha Huntington	April 1844 – January 1846	Whig

6th	Jefferson Bancroft	-	1846–1848	Whig

7th	Josiah B. French	1849–1850	Coalitionist/Democratic

8th	James H.B. Ayer	1851	Whig

9th	Elisha Huntington	January 1852 – January 1853	Whig

10th	Sewall G. Mack	1853–1854	Whig

11th	Ambrose Lawrence	1855	Native American Party

12th	Elisha Huntington	1856	Whig

13th	Stephen Mansur	1857	Republican

14th	Elisha Huntington	January 1858 – January 1859	Whig

15th	James Cook	1859	Republican

16th	Benjamin C. Sargent	1860–1861	Republican

17th	Hocum Hosford	1862–1865	Citizens ticket (1862-1863), Republican (1864)

18th	Capt. Josiah Peabody	1865–1866	Republican

19th	George F. Richardson	-	1867 – January 4, 1869	Republican

20th	Jonathan P. Folsom	January 4, 1869–1870	Republican

21st	Edward F. Sherman	1871	Republican

22nd	Capt. Josiah Peabody	1872	Republican

23rd	Francis Jewett	1873–1875	Republican

24th	Charles A. Stott	January 1, 1876–1877	Republican

25th	John A. G. Richardson	January 7, 1878–1879	Democratic

26th	Frederic T. Greenhalge	-	1880 – January 2, 1882	Republican

27th	George Runels	January 2, 1882	Republican

28th	John J. Donovan	1883–1884	Democratic	First Irish-American Mayor of Lowell

29th	Edward J. Noyes	1885	Republican

30th	James C. Abbott	1886–1887	Democratic

31st	Charles Dana Palmer	-	1888–January 1891	Republican

32nd	George W. Fifield	-	January 1891–1892	Democratic

33rd	John J. Pickman	-	1893–1894	Republican

34th	William F. Courtney	1895–1897	Democratic

35th	Col. James W. Bennett	1898	Republican

36th	Jeremiah Crowley	-	1899–1900	Democratic	Irish-American

37th	Charles A. R. Dimon	-	1901 – May 5, 1902	Democratic

A	William E. Badger	1902	Republican	Acting

38th	Charles E. Howe	1903–1904	Republican

39th	James B. Casey	1905–1906	Democratic	Irish-American

40th	Frederick W. Farnham	1907–1908	Republican

41st	George H. Brown	January 1, 1909-January, 1910	Republican

42nd	John F. Meehan	1910–1911	Democratic	Irish-American

43rd	James E. O'Donnell	1912–1913	Democratic	Irish-American

44th	Dennis J. Murphy	1914–1915	Democratic	Irish-American

45th	James E. O'Donnell	1916–1917	Democratic

46th	Perry D. Thompson	-	1918–1921	Republican

47th	George H. Brown	1922	Republican

48th	John J. Donovan	1923–1926	Democratic

49th	Thomas J. Corbett	1927–1928	Democratic

50th	Thomas H. Braden	1929–1931	Republican

52nd	Charles H. Slowey	1932–1933	Democratic

53rd	James J. Bruin	1934–1935	Democratic

54th	Dewey G. Archambault	1936–1939	Republican	First Franco-American Mayor of Lowell

55th	George T. Ashe	1940–1943	Democratic

A	Joseph J. Sweeney	1943	Democratic	Acting mayor. Last mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter.

56th	Woodbury F. Howard	1944–1945	Republican	First ceremonial mayor. Beginning of the weak mayor system. City manager form of government established on January 1, 1944.

57th	Leo A. Roy	1946–1947	Republican

58th	George A. Ayotte	1948–1949	Republican

59th	William C. Geary	1950	Democratic

60th	George C. Eliades	1951-1952	Democratic	First Greek-American Mayor of Lowell

61st	Henry Beaudry	-	1952–1953	Republican

62nd	John Janas	1954–1955	Republican	First Polish-American Mayor of Lowell

63rd	Samuel S. Pollard	1956–1959	Democratic

64th	Raymond J. Lord	1960–1961	Republican

65th	Joseph M. Downes	1962–1963	Democratic

66th	Ellen A. Sampson	1964–1965	Republican

67th	Edward J. Early Jr.	1966–1967	Democratic

68th	Robert G. Maguire	1968–1969	Democratic

69th	Richard P. Howe	1970–1971	Democratic

70th	Ellen A. Sampson	1972–1973	Republican

71st	Armand W. LeMay	1974–1975	Democratic

72nd	Leo J. Farley	1976–1977	Democratic

73rd	Raymond F. Rourke	1978–1979	Democratic

74th	Robert C. Maguire	1980–1981	Democratic

75th	M. Brendan Fleming	1982–1983	Democratic

76th	Brian J. Martin	1984–1985	Democratic

77th	Robert B. Kennedy	1986–1987	Democratic

78th	Richard P. Howe	1988–1991	Democratic

79th	Tarsy T. Poulios	1992–1993	Democratic

80th	Richard P. Howe	1994–1995	Democratic

81st	Edward "Bud" Caulfield	1996–1997

82nd	Eileen Donoghue	1998–2001	Democratic

83rd	Rita Mercier	2002–2003	Democratic

84th	Armand Mercier	2004–2005

85th	William F. Martin	2006–2007	Democratic

86th	Edward "Bud" Caulfield	2008–2009	Democratic

87th	James L. Milinazzo	2010–2011	Democratic	Italian-American

88th	Patrick O. Murphy	2012–2013	Independent	Inaugurated at age 29, youngest mayor in Lowell history

89th	Rodney M. Elliott	2014–2016	Democratic

90th	Edward J. Kennedy	2016-2018	Democratic

91st	William Samaras	2018-present	Democratic

Sentence(s)

Raymond Francis Rourke served as the seventy third Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.

final_sentence: Raymond Francis Rourke served as the seventy third Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.