List of mayors of Brockton, Massachusetts

This is a list of the past and present mayors and city managers of Brockton, Massachusetts.

Mayors

#	Mayor	Picture	Term	Party	Notes
1st	Ziba Cary Keith		1882–1883	Republican
2nd	Henry H. Packard		1883–1884
3rd	Ziba Cary Keith		1884–1885	Republican
4th	John J. Whipple		1886–1887	Republican
5th	Albert R. Wade		1888–1889
6th	William Lewis Douglas		1890–1891	Democrat
7th	Ziba Cary Keith		1892–1893	Republican
8th	John J. Whipple		1894–1895
9th	Charles Williamson		1896–1897
10th	Henry E. Garfield		1898–1898
11th	Emery M. Low		1899–1899
12th	Charles H. Coulter		1900–1901	Socialist Party of America
13th	David W. Battles		1902–1902
14th	Edward H. Keith		1904–1905
15th	Fred O. Bradford		1905–1906
16th	John S. Kent		1907–1909
17th	William H. Clifford		1910–1910
18th	Harry C. Howard		1911–1912
19th	Charles M. Hickey		1913–1913
20th	Harry C. Howard		1914–1914
21st	John S. Burbank		1915–1916
22nd	Stewart B. McLeod		1917–1917
23rd	William M. Gleason		1918–1920
24th	Roger Keith		1921–1922
25th	Frank A. Manning		1923–1924
26th	William A. Bullivant		1925–1925	Republican
27th	Harold D. Bent		1926–1931	Republican
28th	Horace C. Baker		1932–1935	Republican
29th	Lawrence E. Crowley		1936–1937	Democrat
30th	Fred D. Rowe		1938–1941	Republican
31st	Joseph H. Downey		1942 – November 3, 1949	Democrat	Died in office
Acting	Thomas J. Mullins		November 3, 1949 – January 2, 1950		City Council President. Served as acting mayor following the death of Joseph H. Downey.
32nd	Melvin B. Clifford		1950–1951	Republican
33rd	C. Gerald Lucey		1952–1955	Democrat
34th	Hjalmar Peterson		1956–1957	Republican	Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan D Charter.
35th	Wilfred A. Derosier		1958–1959		First Ceremonial Mayor appointed under Plan D form of Government
36th	Leonard H. Ellershaw		1960–1961		Last Ceremonial Mayor appointed under Plan D form of Government
37th	F. Milton McGrath		1962–1963	Democrat	First Mayor after the City Manager form of government was abolished.
38th	Alvin Jack Sims		1964–1967	Republican
39th	John E. Sullivan		1968–1971	Democrat
40th	Richard Wainwright		1972–1973	Republican
41st	David E. Crosby		1974–1982	Democrat	Last mayor elected in partisan election. Served as interim mayor from January to June 1982 while the results of the 1981 election were challenged in court.
42nd	Paul V. Studenski		June 1982 – January 1984		First mayor elected in nonpartisan election. Elected in special election after the result of the 1981 mayor election was thrown out by the State Appeals Court.
43rd	Carl D. Pitaro		1985–1991
44th	Winthrop Farwell, Jr.		1992–1995
45th	Jack Yunits		1996–2005
46th	James E. Harrington		2006–2008
47th	Linda Balzotti		2009–2013
48th	William Carpenter		2013–present

City managers

From 1958 to 1961, Brockton was led by a City Manager under the Plan D form of government.

#	City Manager	Term	Notes
1st	William A. Gildea	1958–1961
Temporary	Melvin B. Clifford	1961–1961	City Clerk. Named temporary manager after City Council fired Gildea. Removed from office after a judge ruled that Gildea was to be reinstated.
2nd	William A. Gildea	1961–1961
Acting	Melvin B. Clifford	1961–1962	Named acting city manager after decision reinstating Gildea was overturned.

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