List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts
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Mayor

Picture

Term Began

Term Ended

Notes

1st

Edmund H. Bennett

January 2, 1865

June 19, 1867

First mayor of Taunton; resigned June 19, 1867.[1]

2nd

Stephen H. Rhodes

June 19, 1867

1870

[1]

3rd

Daniel L. Mitchell

1870

1873

[1]

4th

William H. Fox

1873

1874

[1]

5th

George H. Babbitt

1874

[1]

6th

Onias S. Paige

1878

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

34th

Merrill Aldrich

1941

November 1946

Resigned to serve prison sentence.[2]

35th

John F. Parker

1947

1953

36th

Joseph C. Chamberlain

1953

1960

[2]

37th

Bernard F. Cleary

1960

1963

Died in office shortly before completing his final term.[2]

38th

Benjamin A. Friedman

1963

1970

[2]

39th

Joseph E. Flood

1970

1972

[2]

40th

Rudolph H. De Silva

1972

1974

[2]

41st

Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr.

1974

1976

[2]

42nd

Benjamin A. Friedman

1976

1978

[2]

43rd

Joseph L. Amaral

1978

1982

[2]

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.[3] 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

Incumbent

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