List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mayors

List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Section Title: Mayors
Table Section Text: None

#	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	-	January 1872 – January 1873

17th	Isaac Bradford	-	January 1873 – January 1877	Democratic

18th	Frank Augustus Allen	January 1877 – January 1878

19th	Samuel L. Montague	-	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	-	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	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	2016–2017

76th	Marc C. McGovern	2018–Present

Sentence(s)

Russell served as Mayor of Cambridge from 1885.

final_sentence: Russell served as Mayor of Cambridge from 1885.