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Mayors and Postmasters of Lynn, Massachusetts

Mayors of Lynn, 1850-2011 (may be incomplete!)
George Hood 1850-52 Benjamin F. Mudge 1852-53 Daniel C. Baker 1853-54 Thomas P. Richardson 1854-55 Andrews Breed 1855-56 Ezra W. Mudge 1856-58 William F. Johnson 1858-59 Edward S. Davis 1859-61 Hiram N. Breed 1861-62 Peter M. Neal 1862-66 Roland G. Usher 1866-69 James N. Buffum 1869-70 Edwin Walden 1870-72 James N. Buffum 1872-73 Jacob M. Lewis 1873-77 Samuel M. Bubier 1877-79 George Plaisted Sanderson 1879-81 Henry B. Lovering 1881-83 William L. Baird 1883-85 John R. Baldwin 1885-86 George D. Hart 1886-87 George C. Higgins 1888 Asa T. Newhall 1889-91 E. Knowlton Fogg 1891-92 Elihu B. Hayes 1892-93 Charles E. Harwood 1894-95 Eugene A. Besson 1896 Walter L. Ramsdell 1897-98 William Shepherd 1899-1902 Henry W. Eastham 1903-05 Charles N. Barney 1906-07 Thomas F. Porter 1908-09 James E. Rich 1909-10 William P. Connery, Sr. 1911-12 George H. Newhall 1913-17 Walter H. Creamer 1918-21 Harland A. McPhetres 1922-25 Ralph S. Bauer 1926-30 J. Fred Manning 1930-39 Albert Cole 1940-43 Arthur J. Frawley 1943-45 Albert Cole 1946-47 Stuart A. Tarr 1948-51 Arthur J. Frawley 1952-55 Thomas P. Costin, Jr. 1956-61 M. Henry Wall 1961-65 Irving E. Kane 1966-69 J. Warren Cassidy 1970-72 Pasquale Caggiano 1972 Walter F. Meserve 1972 Antonio J. Marino 1972-73 David L. Phillips 1974-75 Antonio J. Marino 1976-85 Albert V. DiVirgilio 1986-91 Patrick J. McManus 1992-2001 Edward J. Clancy 2002-09 Judith Flanagan Kennedy 2010-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1905 Dec 12: Charles N. Barney (Rep), elected.
  • 1939 Nov 7: Albert Cole (Rep), elected; J. Fred Manning (Dem), defeated.
  • 1945: Albert Cole, elected.
  • 1953 Nov 3: Arthur J. Frawley, elected.
  • 1961 Jul 3: Thomas P. Costin, Jr., resigned.
  • 1963 Nov 5: M. Henry Wall, elected unopposed.
  • 1972 Apr 13: Pasquale Caggiano, died in office.
  • 1981: Edward J. Clancy, defeated.
  • 1985: Albert V. DiVirgilio, elected.
  • 1991: Patrick J. McManus, elected; Albert V. DiVirgilio, defeated.
  • 1999 Nov 2: Patrick J. McManus, elected; Joseph J. Downey, defeated.
  • 2001: Edward J. Clancy, elected.
  • 2005: Edward J. Clancy, elected.
  • 2009 Sep 15: Judith Flanagan Kennedy, nominated; Edward J. Clancy, nominated; David M. Rohnstock, defeated in primary.
  • 2009 Nov 3: Judith Flanagan Kennedy, elected; Edward J. Clancy, defeated.

    Postmasters at Lynn, 1796-1991 (may be incomplete!)
    James Robinson 1796-1803 Samuel Mullikin 1804-06 Elisha Downing 1806-08 Jonathan Bacheller 1808-29 Jeremiah C. Stickney 1829-39 Thomas G. Marsh 1839-41 Stephen Oliver 1841-42 Thomas B. Newhall 1842-43 Benjamin Mudge 1843-49 Abner Austin 1849-53 Jeremiah C. Stickney 1853-58 Leonard B. Usher 1858-61 George H. Chase 1861-69 John Batchelder 1869-77 John G. B. Adams 1877-85 William E. Parker 1885-89 Augustus J. Hoitt 1889-94 John D. Dennis 1894-98 E. Knowlton Fogg 1898-1900 Howard K. Sanderson 1900-05 William F. Craig 1905-13 Edmund S. Higgins 1913-22 Harlan S. Cummings 1922-34 Thomas A. Wilkinson 1934 Thomas A. Wilkinson 1934-61 Ralph F. Wilkinson 1961 Thomas P. Costin, Jr. 1961-62 Thomas P. Costin, Jr. 1962-91

    Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1900 Apr 21: E. Knowlton Fogg, died in office.
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