List of mayors of Roxbury, Massachusetts

The Mayor of Roxbury was the head of the municipal government in Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury, Massachusetts

Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868...

. There was no Mayor of Roxbury until 1846 because up to that point Roxbury was still incorporated as a town. When Roxbury was annexed by the City of Boston the position was abolished.

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Roxbury, Massachusetts
Roxbury is a dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 until annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868...

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#	Mayor	Term	Party
1st	John Jones Clarke John Jones Clarke John Jones Clarke was an American politician, who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature and as the first Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1846.- References :...	1846	None
2nd	Henry A. S. Dearborn Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn was an American lawyer, author, statesman and soldier...	1847–1851	None
3rd	Samuel Walker Samuel Walker (politician) Samuel Walker was an American politician, who served as the third Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1851 to 1853. Walker was also the fifth President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.- References :...	1851–1853	None
4th	Linus Bacon Comins Linus B. Comins Linus Bacon Comins was a Massachusetts politician who served as Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1859.-Early life:...	1854	American Party Know Nothing The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by...
5th	James Ritchie	1855–1855	None
6th	John Sherburne Sleeper John Sherburne Sleeper John Sherburne Sleeper was an American sailor, ship master, novelist , journalist and politician.-Life at Sea:...	1856–1858	None
7th	Theodore Otis Theodore Otis Theodore Otis was an American politician, who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the seventh Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1859 to 1860.-Bibliography:...	1859–1860	None
8th	William Gaston William Gaston (Massachusetts) William Gaston was the 29th Governor of Massachusetts in 1875-1876.William Gaston had established a successful legal practice in the City of Roxbury, Massachusetts before entering politics. He served as a Representative in the State Legislature , as Roxbury's City Solicitor , and as its Mayor...	1861–1862	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
9th	George Lewis George Lewis (politician) George Lewis was an American politician, who served as the ninth, and final, Mayor of Roxbury, Massachusetts from 1863-1867. Lewis was born in Roxbury to Eliajh Lewis and Elizabeth Sumner Lewis....	January 5, 1863 – January 5, 1868	None

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