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Lowell History: Documents and Information

Mayors of Lowell

 
1836-1837 Elisha Bartlett
1838-1839 Luther Lawrence
1839-1841 Elisha Huntington
1842-1843 Nathaniel Wright
1844-1845 Elisha Huntington
1846-1848 Jefferson Bancroft
1849-1850 Josiah B. French
1851 James H.B. Ayer
1852 Elisha Huntington
1853-1854 Sewall G. Mack
1855 Ambrose Lawrence
1856 Elisha Huntington
1857 Stephen Mansur
1858 Elisha Huntington
1859 James Cook
1860-1861 Benjamin C. Sargeant
1862-1864 Hocum Hosford
1865-1866 Josiah G. Peabody
1867-1868 George F. Richardson
1869-1870 Jonathan P. Folsom
1871 Edward F. Sherman
1872 Josiah G. Peabody
1873-1875 Francis Jewett
1876-1877  Charles A. Stott
1878-1879 John A. G. Richardson
1880-1881  Frederic T. Greenhalge
1882 George Runels
1883-1884  John  J. Donovan
1885 Edward J. Noyes
1886-1887  James C. Abbott
1888-1890 Charles  D. Palmer
1891-1892  George W. Fifield
1893-1894 John J. Pickman
1895-1897 William F. Courtney
1898 James W. Bennett
1899-1900  Jeremiah Crowley
1901-1902 Charles A. R. Dimon
1902 William E. Badger*
1903-1904  Charles E. Howe
1905-1906  James B. Casey
1907-1908 Frederick W. Farnham
1909 George H. Brown
1910-1911  John F. Meehan
1912-1913  James E. O'Donnell
1914-1915 Dennis J. Murphy
1916-1917  James E. O'Donnell
1918-1921 Perry D. Thompson
1922 George H. Brown
1923-1926 John J. Donovan
1927-1928 Thomas J. Corbett
1929-1931 Thomas H. Braden
1932-1933 Charles H. Slowey
1934-1935 James J. Bruin
1936-1939  Dewey G. Archambault
1940-1943  George T. Ashe
1943 Joseph J. Sweeney*
1944-1945  Woodbury F. Howard
1946-1947  Leo A. Roy
1948-1949 George A. Ayotte
1950  William C. Geary
1951 George C. Eliades
1952-1953 Henry Beaudry
1954-1955 John Janas
1956-1959 Samuel S. Pollard
1960-1961 Raymond J. Lord
1962-1963 Joseph M. Downes
1964-1965 Ellen A. Sampson
1966-1967 Edward J. Early, Jr.
1968-1969 Robert G. Maguire
1970-1971  Richard P. Howe
1972-1973  Ellen A. Sampson
1974-1975  Armand W. Lemay
1976-1977 Leo J. Farley
1978-1979 Raymond F. Rourke
1980-1981 Robert C. Maguire
1982-1983 M. Brendan Fleming
1984-1985 Brian J. Martin
1986-1987 Robert B. Kennedy
1988-1991 Richard P. Howe
1992-1993 Tarsey T. Poulios
1994-1995 Richard P. Howe
1996-1997 Edward C. Caulfield
1998-2001 Eileen Donoghue
2002- Rita Mercier
 

*Acting Mayor

 

City Managers (Under Plan E)

John J. Flannery January 1, 1944 - December 1, 1952
Ulysses J. Lupien December 1, 1952 - November 10. 1953
Frank Barrett November 18, 1953 -December 31, 1961 
Cornelius Desmond, Jr. January 1, 1962 - October 31, 1963 
P. Harold Ready October 31, 1963 -- November 30. 1966
Charles A. Gallagher November 30, 1966 - August 11, 1970
James L. Sullivan September 30, 1970 - Apri 13, 1974
Paul J. Sheehy May 3, 1974 - September 5, 1975
William S. Taupier October 24, 1975 - 1979
B. Joseph Tully 1979-1987
James J. Campbell 1987-1991
Richard Johnson 1991-1995
Brian Martin 1995-2000
John Cox 2000-