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List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts

List of mayors of Taunton

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.
51st	Shaunna O'Connell	January 6, 2020	Incumbent	Easton]].

Gallery

File:Edmund Hatch Bennett.jpg|Edmund H. Bennett First mayor of Taunton File:Stephen Holbrook Rhodes 1870.jpg|Stephen H. Rhodes Second mayor of Taunton File:William H. Fox.png|William H. Fox Fourth mayor of Taunton File:Francis S. Babbitt.png|Francis Babbitt 14th mayor of Taunton File:Richard Everett Warner.png|Richard Everett Warner 21st mayor of Taunton File:1985 John F Parker Massachusetts state senator.png|John F. Parker 35th mayor of Taunton File:Mayor Joseph E. Flood.jpg|Joseph E. Flood 39th mayor of Taunton File:Theodore Aleixo Jr.jpeg|Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. 41st mayor of Taunton File:Shaunna O'Connell.jpg|Shaunna O'Connell 51st mayor of Taunton

References

''The City Charter, Laws and Ordinances, Rules and Orders of the City Council, and City Governments from 1865 to 1876, of the City of Taunton''. Taunton: Republican Steam Printing Rooms, 1876.
''Municipal Register Containing the Mayor's Address and Annual Reports for 1909, with the City Officers for 1910'', Taunton: 1910.
Spitler, Scott. "History points to big battle". ''Taunton Daily Gazette''. August 26, 2007
Gay, Ted. "A look back at 'Kid Bob, Boy Mayor'". ''Taunton Daily Gazette''. February 17, 2007
Winokoor, Charles. "[https://www.tauntongazette.com/news/20191113/an-amazing-ride---wednesday-is-hoyes-last-day-as-taunton-mayor 'An amazing ride' - Wednesday is Hoye's last day as Taunton mayor]". ''Taunton Daily Gazette''. November 13, 2019
Winokoor, Charles. "[https://www.tauntongazette.com/news/20191123/city-council-votes-for-donald-cleary-to-serve-as-tauntons-mayor City Council votes for Donald Cleary to serve as Taunton’s mayor]". ''Taunton Daily Gazette''. November 23, 2019
"REVISED ORDINANCES CITY OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS Section 21".
[https://statisticalatlas.com/state-lower-legislative-district/Massachusetts/3rd-Bristol-District/Overview Overview of the 3rd Bristol District, Massachusetts (Lower State Legislative District)]. ''The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States''.

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