List of mayors of Taunton, Massachusetts

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Taunton, Massachusetts
Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the seat of Bristol County and the hub of the Greater Taunton Area. The city is located south of Boston, east of Providence, north of Fall River and west of Plymouth. The City of Taunton is situated on the Taunton River...

. Taunton was led by a Board of Selectmen

Board of selectmen

The board of selectmen is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States. The board typically consists of three or five members, with or without staggered terms.-History:...

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
1^st	Edmund H. Bennett Edmund H. Bennett Edmund Hatch Bennett was an American lawyer, judge, the first Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts, and Dean of Boston University School of Law.- Family and education :...	January 2, 1865	June 19, 1867	First mayor of Taunton; resigned June 19, 1867.
2^nd	Stephen H. Rhodes Stephen H. Rhodes Stephen Holbrook Rhodes was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate, as the second Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts, and as the fourth President of The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company.-Early life:Rhodes was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on ...	June 19, 1867	1870
3^rd	Daniel L. Mitchell	1870	1873
4^th	William H. Fox William H. Fox William Henry Fox was a Massachusetts lawyer, jurist and, politician who served as the fourth Mayor, of Taunton, Massachusetts, and as the Presiding Justice of the First Bristol District Court. - Notes :...	1873	1874
5^th	George H. Babbitt	1874
6^th	Onias S. Paige	1878
7^th	Charles F. Johnson	1880	1882
8^th	Horatio Cushman Horatio Cushman Horatio Leonard Cushman was a Massachusetts manufacturer and politician who served in both branches of the city council, and as the eighth Mayor, of Taunton, Massachusetts.- Notes :...	1883
9^th	Charles Hanson	1884	1885
10^th	Richard Henry Hall Richard Henry Hall Richard Henry Hall was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts.-Early life and education:...	1886	1886
11^th	Everett D. Godfrey Everett D. Godfrey Everett Dean Godfrey was a Massachusetts politician who served as the eleventh Mayor, of Taunton, Massachusetts.- Notes :...	1887
12^th	Richard Henry Hall Richard Henry Hall Richard Henry Hall was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts.-Early life and education:...	1888	1889
13^th	Arthur Alger	1890
14^th	Francis Babbitt Francis Babbitt Francis Sanford Babbitt was a Massachusetts politician who served as the fourteenth Mayor, of Taunton, Massachusetts.Babbitt was born in Taunton, Massachusetts to George H. and Seraphene S. Babbitt on December 22, 1843....	1891	1892
15^th	Willis Hodgman	1894
16^th	Charles A. Reed	1895
17^th	Benjamin Morris	1896
18^th	Nathaniel J.W. Fish	1897	1899
19^th	Arthur Alger	1900
20^th	John O'Hearn	1901
21^st	Richard Everett Warner Richard Everett Warner Richard Everett Warner was an American businessman and politician who served as the Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts.On December 3, 1901, Warner defeated John O'Hearn, the incumbent Democratic mayor. Warner received 3,002 voted against 2,023 for O'Hearn.On December 6, 1904, Mayor Warner lost the...	1902	1905
22^nd	John H. Eldredge	1905	1906
23^rd	John B. Tracey	1906	1907
24^th	Edgar Crossman	1908	1909
25^th	William S. Woods	1910	1912
26^th	Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth Fish	1912	1916
27^th	William Flood	1916	1919	His son, Joseph E. Flood, Sr., was also to become Mayor in 1970 – 1972
28^th	Leo Coughlin	1919	1925
29^th	Andrew McGraw	1926	1929
30^th	Wllis K. Hodgman, Jr.	1930	1932
31^st	Andrew McGraw	1932	1935
32^nd	Arthur Poole	1936	1939
33^rd	John Fitzgerald	1940
34^th	Merrill Aldrich	1941	November 1946	Resigned to serve prison sentence.
35^th	John F. Parker John F. Parker John Frederick Parker , was one of four men detailed to act as United States President Abraham Lincoln's bodyguard on April 14, 1865, the night Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s theater.-Biography:...	1947	1953
36^th	Joseph C. Chamberlain	1953	1960
37^th	Bernard F. Cleary	1960	1963	Died in office shortly before completing his final term.
38^th	Benjamin A. Friedman	1963	1970
39^th	Joseph E. Flood	1970	1972
40^th	Rudolph H. De Silva	1972	1974
41^st	Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr. Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr. Theodore J. Aleixo, Jr. is a Massachusetts politician who served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court and as the Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts.- Notes :...	1974	1976
42^nd	Benjamin A. Friedman	1976	1978
43^rd	Joseph L. Amaral	1978	1982
44^th	Richard Johnson	1982	1992
45^th	Robert G. Nunes	1992	1999
46^th	Thaddeus M. Strojny	2000	2003
47^th	Robert G. Nunes	2004	March 12, 2007	Resigned to serve as Director of Municipal Affairs for Gov. Governor of Massachusetts The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:... Deval Patrick Deval Patrick Deval Laurdine Patrick is the 71st and current Governor of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as an Assistant United States Attorney General under President Bill Clinton... . First mayor of Taunton to leave the office voluntarily before his term ended.
48^th	Charles E. Crowley	March 12, 2007	January 2, 2012

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