List of mayors and city managers of Lowell, Massachusetts

This is a list of mayors and city managers of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell became a city in 1836. From 1836 to 1943 the mayor of Lowell was the chief administrative officer of the city. Lowell switched to a Massachusetts "Plan E" form of city government in 1943, since January 1, 1944 the city has been administrated by a professional city manager, the office of mayor, while retained under "Plan E", is strictly a ceremonial one.

Mayors

#	Mayor	Picture	Term	Party	Notes
1st	Elisha Bartlett		1836–1838	Whig
2nd	Luther Lawrence		1838 – April 17, 1839
A	Elisha Huntington		April 1839 – April 1840	Whig	Became acting mayor after the death of Luther Lawrence in April 1839.
3rd	Elisha Huntington		April 1840 – April 1842	Whig
4th	Nathaniel Wright		April 1842 – April 1844	Citizens ticket, (1842); Whig (1843)
5th	Elisha Huntington		April 1844 – January 1846	Whig
6th	Jefferson Bancroft		1846–1848	Whig
7th	Josiah B. French		1849–1850	Coalitionist
8th	James H.B. Ayer		1851	Whig
9th	Elisha Huntington		January 1852 – January 1853	Whig
10th	Sewall G. Mack		1853–1854	Whig
11th	Ambrose Lawrence		1855	Native American Party
12th	Elisha Huntington		1856	Whig
13th	Stephen Mansur		1857	Republican
14th	Elisha Huntington		January 1858 – January 1859	Whig
15th	James Cook		1859	Republican
16th	Benjamin C. Sargent		1860–1861	Republican
17th	Hocum Hosford		1862–1865	Citizens ticket (1862-1863), Republican (1864)
18th	Josiah G. Peabody		1865–1866
19th	George F. Richardson		1867 – January 4, 1869	Republican
20th	Jonathan P. Folsom		January 4, 1869–1870
21st	Edward F. Sherman		1871
22nd	Josiah G. Peabody		1872
23rd	Francis Jewett		1873–1875
24th	Charles A. Stott		January 1, 1876–1877	Republican
25th	John A.G. Richardson		January 7, 1878–1879	Democratic
26th	Frederic T. Greenhalge		1880 – January 2, 1882	Republican
27th	George Runels		January 2, 1882
28th	John J. Donovan		1883–1884		Democratic
29th	Edward J. Noyes		1885
30th	James C. Abbott		1886–1887
31st	Charles Dana Palmer		1888–January 1891
32nd	George W. Fifield		January 1891–1892	Democratic
33rd	John J. Pickman		1893–1894	Republican
34th	William F. Courtney		1895–1897
35th	James W. Bennett		1898
36th	Jeremiah Crowley		1899–1900	Democratic
37th	Charles A.R. Dimon		1901 – May 5, 1902
A	William E. Badger		1902		Acting
38th	Charles E. Howe		1903–1904	Republican
39th	James B. Casey		1905–1906
40th	Frederick W. Farnham		1907–1908	Republican
41st	George H. Brown		January 1, 1909-January, 1910	Republican
42nd	John F. Meehan		1910–1911
43rd	James E. O'Donnell		1912–1913
44th	Dennis J. Murphy		1914–1915
45th	James E. O'Donnell		1916–1917
46th	Perry D. Thompson		1918–1921	Republican
47th	George H. Brown		1922	Republican
48th	John J. Donovan		1923–1926
49th	Thomas J. Corbett		1927–1928
50th	Thomas H. Braden		1929–1931	Republican
52nd	Charles H. Slowey		1932–1933	Democratic
53rd	James J. Bruin		1934–1935	Democratic
54th	Dewey G. Archambault		1936–1939	Republican
55th	George T. Ashe		1940–1943	Democratic
A	Joseph J. Sweeney		1943		Acting mayor. Last mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter.
56th	Woodbury F. Howard		1944–1945		First ceremonial mayor. Beginning of the weak mayor system. City manager form of government established on January 1, 1944.
57th	Leo A. Roy		1946–1947
58th	George A. Ayotte		1948–1949
59th	William C. Geary		1950
60th	George C. Eliades		1951
61st	Henry Beaudry		1952–1953
62nd	John Janas		1954–1955
63rd	Samuel S. Pollard		1956–1959
64th	Raymond J. Lord		1960–1961
65th	Joseph M. Downes		1962–1963
66th	Ellen A. Sampson		1964–1965
67th	Edward J. Early, Jr.		1966–1967
68th	Robert G. Maguire		1968–1969
69th	Richard P. Howe		1970–1971
70th	Ellen A. Sampson		1972–1973
71st	Armand W. Lemay		1974–1975
72nd	Leo J. Farley		1976–1977
73rd	Raymond F. Rourke		1978–1979	Democratic
74th	Robert C. Maguire		1980–1981
75th	M. Brendan Fleming		1982–1983
76th	Brian J. Martin		1984–1985
77th	Robert B. Kennedy		1986–1987	Democratic
78th	Richard P. Howe		1988–1991
79th	Tarsy T. Poulios		1992–1993	Democratic
80th	Richard P. Howe		1994–1995
81st	Edward "Bud" Caulfield		1996–1997
82nd	Eileen Donoghue		1998–2001	Democratic
83rd	Rita Mercier		2002–2003
84th	Armand Mercier		2004–2005
85th	William F. Martin		2006–2007	Democratic
86th	Edward "Bud" Caulfield		2008–2009
87th	James L. Milinazzo		2010–2011	Democratic
88th	Patrick O. Murphy		2012–2013		Inaugurated at age 29, became youngest mayor in Lowell history.
89th	Rodney M. Elliott		2014–2016	Democratic
90th	Edward J. Kennedy		2016-Present	Democratic

City Managers

#	City Manager	Term	Notes
1st	John J. Flannery	1944–1952
2nd	Ulysses J. Lupien	1952–1953
A	William Sullivan	1953
3rd	Frank E. Barrett	1953–1962
4th	Cornelius Desmond	1962–1963
5th	P. Harold Ready	1963–1966
6th	Charles Gallagher	1966–1970
A	Leo Morris	1970
7th	James Sullivan	1970–1974
A	Robert W. Healy	1974
8th	Paul J. Sheehy	1974–1975
A	William Busby	1975
9th	William S. Taupier	1975–1979
A	Victor Normand	1979
10th	B. Joseph Tully	1979–1987
11th	James Campbell	1987–1991
A	James Kennedy	1991
12th	Richard Johnson	1991–1995
13th	Brian J. Martin	1995–2000
14th	John F. Cox	2000–2006
A	James Kennedy	2006
15th	Bernard F. Lynch	2006–2014
16th	Kevin J. Murphy	2014–present

External links

• List of the mayors of Lowell from The University of Massachusetts Lowell