| # | Image | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Length of service | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ONE YEAR MAYORAL TERM (Ch. 162 of the Acts of 1899)[1] | ||||||||
| 1 | 
|
Levi S. Gould (1834–1917) |
January 1, 1900 | January 7, 1901 | 1 year | Republican | ||
| 2 | 
|
John Larrabee (1850–1929) |
January 7, 1901 | January 5, 1903 | 2 years | Republican | ||
| 3 | 
|
Sidney Homer Buttrick (1850–1923) |
January 5, 1903 | January 1, 1906 | 3 years | Republican | ||
| 4 | 
|
Charles J. Barton (1855–1923)[2] |
January 1, 1906 | January 7, 1907 | 1 year | Democrat | ||
| 5 | 
|
Eugene H. Moore (1863–1919) |
January 7, 1907 | January 1, 1912 | 5 years | Republican | ||
| 6 | 
|
Charles E. French (1862–1921) |
January 1, 1912 | January 6, 1913 | 1 year | Unaffiliated | ||
| 7 | 
|
Oliver B. Munroe (1856–1916) |
January 6, 1913 | January 4, 1915 | 2 years | Unaffiliated | ||
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|
Charles H. Adams (1859–1952) |
January 4, 1915 | January 2, 1922 | 7 years | Republican | ||
| 9 | 
|
Angier Goodwin (1881–1975) |
January 2, 1922 | January 2, 1923 | 1 year | Republican | ||
| TWO YEAR MAYORAL TERM (Ch. 102 of the Acts of 1922)[3] | ||||||||
| 10 | 
|
Paul H. Provandie (1875–1931) |
January 2, 1923 | January 5, 1925 | 2 years | Unaffiliated | ||
| 11 | 
|
Albert M. Tibbetts (1873–1950) |
January 5, 1925 | January 5, 1931 | 6 years | Unaffiliated | ||
| 12 | Robert A. Perkins (1861–1956) |
January 5, 1931 | January 6, 1942 | 11 years[a] | Republican | |||
| 13 | Carl A. Raymond (1876–1963) |
January 6, 1942 | January 6, 1948 | 6 years | Unaffiliated | |||
| 14 | Thomas L. Thistle | January 6, 1948 | January 4, 1954 | 6 years | ||||
| 15 | Lawrence W. Lloyd | January 4, 1954 | January 6, 1964 | 10 years | ||||
| 16 | Paul S. Vaitses, Jr. (–2003)[4] |
January 6, 1964 | January 2, 1968 | 4 years | Republican | |||
| 17 | Thomas Francis Sullivan (1931–1995) |
January 2, 1968 | January 3, 1972 | 4 years | ||||
| 18 | James E. Milano (1908/9–2011) |
January 3, 1972 | January 6, 1992 | 20 years | Republican | |||
| 19 | Richard D. Lyons | January 6, 1992 | July 16, 1997[b] | 5 years, 6 months | Democrat | |||
| — | Ronald W. Alley[c] | July 16, 1997 | January 7, 1998 | 6 months | ||||
| 20 | 
|
Patrick Guerriero | January 7, 1998 | July 9, 2001 | 3 years, 6 months[d] | Republican | ||
| — | Richard D. Lyons[e] | July 9, 2001 | January 7, 2002 | 6 months | Democrat | |||
| FOUR YEAR MAYORAL TERM (Ch. 105 of the Acts of 2005)[5] | ||||||||
| 21 | Robert J. Dolan[6] | January 7, 2002 | February 5, 2018 | 16 years, 1 month[f] | Democrat | |||
| — | Gail F. Infurna[e][7] | February 5, 2018 | November 15, 2019 | 1 year, 9 months | Democrat | |||
| 22 | 
|
Paul Brodeur[8] | November 15, 2019 | January 4, 2024 | 4 years | Democrat | ||
| 23 | Jennifer Grigoraitis[9] | January 4, 2024 | Incumbent | 9 months and 28 days | Democrat | |||
Notes
edit- a Served additional year because voting date changed.
- b Resigned to become Registrar of Motor Vehicles.
- c Interim Mayor.
- d Resigned to become Deputy Chief of Staff to Acting Governor Jane M. Swift.
- e Acting Mayor.
- f Resigned to become Lynnfield Town Administrator.
References
edit- General
- Edwin Carl Kemp. "Melrose, Massachusetts, 1900-1950; commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the town of Melrose and the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Melrose (1950)". Fifiteth Anniversary Committee (Melrose, Mass.) via Internet Archive. Retrieved May 5, 2024.
- Specific
- ^ "Acts and resolves passed by the General Court". The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts via via Internet Archive. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
- ^ "CHARLES BARTON DEAD AT MELROSE". The Boston Globe. 1923-09-29. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-05-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Acts and resolves passed by the General Court". The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts via via Internet Archive. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
- ^ "Paul Vaitses Tops His Uncle in 3-Way Race for Mayor". The Boston Globe. 1963-11-06. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-05-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Session Law - Acts of 2005 Chapter 105". The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
- ^ "The Mayor's Office". Archived from the original on September 10, 2015.
- ^ "Mayor". Archived from the original on November 27, 2018.
- ^ "Mayor". Archived from the original on July 13, 2020.
- ^ "Mayor Jennifer Grigoraitis". City of Melrose. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
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