# List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts

This is a list of mayors of Taunton in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Taunton was led by a Board of Selectmen from 1639 until its re-incorporation as a city in 1864. The first city government was inaugurated on January 2, 1865.
| # | Mayor | Term Began | Term Ended | Notes |
| 1st | Edmund H. Bennett | January 2, 1865 | June 19, 1867 | First mayor of Taunton; resigned June 19, 1867. |
| 2nd | Stephen H. Rhodes | June 19, 1867 | 1870 | |
| 3rd | Daniel L. Mitchell | 1870 | 1873 | |
| 4th | William H. Fox | 1873 | 1874 | |
| 5th | George H. Babbitt | 1874 | 1876 | |
| 6th | Onias S. Paige | 1877 | 1879 | |
| 7th | Charles F. Johnson | 1880 | 1882 | |
| 8th | Horatio Cushman | 1883 | | |
| 9th | Charles Hanson | 1884 | 1885 | |
| 10th | Richard Henry Hall | 1886 | 1886 | |
| 11th | Everett D. Godfrey | 1887 | | |
| 12th | Richard Henry Hall | 1888 | 1889 | |
| 13th | Arthur Alger | 1890 | | |
| 14th | Francis Babbitt | 1891 | 1892 | |
| 15th | Willis Hodgman | 1894 | | |
| 16th | Charles A. Reed | 1895 | | |
| 17th | Benjamin Morris | 1896 | | |
| 18th | Nathaniel J.W. Fish | 1897 | 1899 | |
| 19th | Arthur Alger | 1900 | | |
| 20th | John O'Hearn | 1901 | | |
| 21st | Richard Everett Warner | 1902 | 1905 | |
| 22nd | John H. Eldredge | 1905 | 1906 | |
| 23rd | John B. Tracey | 1906 | 1907 | |
| 24th | Edgar Crossman | 1908 | 1909 | |
| 25th | William S. Woods | 1910 | 1912 | |
| 26th | Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth Fish | 1912 | 1916 | |
| 27th | William Flood | 1916 | 1919 | His son, Joseph E. Flood, Sr., was Mayor in 1970–1972 |
| 28th | Leo Coughlin | 1919 | 1925 | |
| 29th | Andrew McGraw | 1926 | 1929 | |
| 30th | Wllis K. Hodgman, Jr. | 1930 | 1932 | |
| 31st | Andrew McGraw | 1932 | 1935 | |
| 32nd | Arthur Poole | 1936 | 1939 | |
| 33rd | John Fitzgerald | 1940 | February 20, 1941 | Died in Office |
| Acting | Harold B. Johnston | February 20, 1941 | April 30, 1941 | |
| 34th | Merrill Aldrich | April 30, 1941 | November 25, 1946 | Won special election to succeed Fitzgerald. Resigned to serve prison sentence for Cohabitation. |
| Acting | Frederick H. Smith | November 25, 1946 | February 7, 1947 | |
| 35th | John F. Parker | 1947 | 1953 | Won special election to succeed Aldrich. |
| 36th | Joseph C. Chamberlain | 1953 | 1960 | |
| 37th | Bernard F. Cleary | 1960 | 1963 | Died in office shortly before completing his final term. |
| 38th | Benjamin A. Friedman | 1963 | 1970 | |
| 39th | Joseph E. Flood | 1970 | 1972 | |
| 40th | Rudolph H. De Silva | 1972 | 1974 | |
| 41st | Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr. | 1974 | 1976 | |
| 42nd | Benjamin A. Friedman | 1976 | 1978 | |
| 43rd | Joseph L. Amaral | 1978 | 1982 | |
| 44th | Richard Johnson | 1982 | 1992 | |
| 45th | Robert G. Nunes | 1992 | 1999 | |
| 46th | Thaddeus M. Strojny | 2000 | 2003 | |
| 47th | Robert G. Nunes | 2004 | March 12, 2007 | Resigned to serve as Director of Municipal Affairs for Gov. Deval Patrick. First mayor of Taunton to leave the office voluntarily before his term ended. |
| 48th | Charles E. Crowley | March 12, 2007 | January 2, 2012 | |
| 49th | Thomas Hoye, Jr. | January 2, 2012 | November 13, 2019 | Resigned to become interim Register of Probate for Bristol County, appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker. |
| Acting | Jeffrey Postell | November 13, 2019 | November 23, 2019 | Taunton city council president; became acting mayor until the council voted to select one of its members as acting mayor. |
| 50th | Donald Cleary | November 23, 2019 | January 6, 2020 | City councilor, elected by a 5–4 vote of the council to serve the balance of Mayor Hoye's term. Pursuant to the City Charter, if the office of mayor becomes vacant, the city council will select one of its members by a majority vote to serve as mayor for the remainder of that term. |
| 51st | Shaunna O'Connell | January 6, 2020 | Incumbent | First elected female mayor of Taunton. Former State Representative for the 3rd Bristol district, which includes most of Taunton (wards 1, 2, 5, 7, and 8, as well as precinct A of ward 3) and precinct 6 of Easton. |

## Gallery

* Edmund H. Bennett First mayor of Taunton
* Stephen H. Rhodes Second mayor of Taunton
* William H. Fox Fourth mayor of Taunton
* Francis Babbitt 14th mayor of Taunton
* Richard Everett Warner 21st mayor of Taunton
* John F. Parker 35th mayor of Taunton
* Joseph E. Flood 39th mayor of Taunton
* Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. 41st mayor of Taunton
* Shaunna O'Connell 51st mayor of Taunton