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Newton, Massachusetts
including Newton Center, Newton Lower Falls, Chestnut Hill
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Newton, 1874-2011 (may be incomplete!)
James F. C. Hyde 1874-75 Alden Speare 1876-77 William Fowle 1878-79 Royal M. Pulsifer 1880-81 William P. Ellison 1882-83 J. Wesley Kimball 1884-88 Heman M. Burr 1889-90 Hermon E. Hibbard 1891-92 John A. Fenno 1893-94 Henry E. Bothfield 1895 Henry E. Cobb 1896-98 Edward B. Wilson 1899-1900 Edward L. Pickard 1901 John W. Weeks 1902-03 Alonzo R. Weed 1904-05 Edgar W. Warren 1906-07 George Hutchinson 1908-09 Charles E. Hatfield 1910-13 Edwin O. Childs 1914-29 Sinclair Weeks 1930-35 Edwin O. Childs 1936-39 Paul M. Goddard 1940-47 Theodore R. Lockwood 1948-53 Howard Whitmore, Jr. 1954-59 Donald L. Gibbs 1960-65 Monte G. Basbas 1966-71 Theodore D. Mann 1972-94 Thomas B. Concannon, Jr. 1994-97 David B. Cohen 1998- Setti Warren as of 2011

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1894 Dec 4: Henry E. Bothfield, elected unopposed.
  • 1905 Dec 12: Edgar W. Warren (Rep), elected unopposed.
  • 1939 Nov 7: Paul M. Goddard, elected; Edwin O. Childs, defeated; James A. Waters, defeated; Frank T. McCabe, defeated.
  • 1953 Nov 3: Howard Whitmore, Jr., elected; Walter Hodgdon, defeated.

    Postmasters at Newton, 1897 (may be incomplete!)
    G. H. Morgan as of 1897

    Newton Center
    (part of Newton)

    Postmasters at Newton Center, 1897-1901 (may be incomplete!)
    E. A. Ellis as of 1897 G. H. Morgan as of 1901

    Newton Lower Falls
    (part of Newton)

    Postmasters at Newton Lower Falls, 1897-1901 (may be incomplete!)
    James A. Early as of 1897-1901

    Chestnut Hill
    (part of Newton)

    Postmasters at Chestnut Hill, 1893-1901 (may be incomplete!)
    Ernest Wisner as of 1893-1901

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