List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts

This is a list of the past and present mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mayors

No.	Mayor	Term	Party	Notes
1	James D. Green	May 1846 – April 1848
2	Sidney Willard	April 1848 – April 1851
3	George Stevens	April 1851 – April 1853
4	James D. Green	April 1853 – April 1854	None
5	Abraham Edwards	April 1854 – January 1855
6	Zebina L. Raymond	January 1855 – January 1856
7	John Sargent	January 1855 – January 1860
8	James D. Green	January 1860 – July 24, 1861
9	Charles Theodore Russell	July 31, 1861 – January 1863
10	George C. Richardson	January 1863 – January 1864
11	Zebina L. Raymond	January 1864 – January 1865
12	J. Warren Merrill	January 1865 – January 1867
13	Ezra Parmenter	January 1867 – January 1868
14	Charles H. Saunders	January 1868 – January 1870
15	Hamlin R. Harding	January 1870 – January 1872
16	Henry Oscar Houghton	January 1872 – January 1873
17	Isaac Bradford	January 1873 – January 1877	Democratic
18	Frank Augustus Allen	January 1877 – January 1878
19	Samuel L. Montague	January 1878 – January 1880
20	James Morris Whiton Hall	January 1880 – January 1881
21	James Augustus Fox	January 1881 – January 1885
22	William Russell	January 1885 – January 1889	Democratic
23	Henry Gilmore	January 1889 – January 1891
24	Alpheus B. Alger	January 1891 – January 1892
25	William Bancroft	January 1893 – January 1897
26	Alvin F. Sortwell	January 1897 – January 1899
27	Edgar R. Champlin	January 1899 – January 1901	Republican
28	David T. Dickinson	January 1901 – January 1902	Republican
29	John H. H. McNamee	January 1902 – January 1904
30	Augustine J. Daly	January 1904 – January 1906
31	Charles H. Thurston	January 1906 – January 1907
32	Walter C. Wardwell	January 1907 – April 1909
33	William F. Brooks	April 1908 – April 1911
34	J. Edward Barry	April 1911 – April 1914
35	Timothy W. Good	April 1914 – January 3, 1916
36	Wendell D. Rockwood	January 3, 1916 – January 1918
37	Edward W. Quinn	January 1918 – January 1930	Democratic
38	Richard M. Russell	January 1930 – January 1936	Democratic
39	John D. Lynch	January 1936 – January 1938
40	John W. Lyons	January 1938 – July 22, 1941
41	Francis C. Sennott	July 23, 1941 – January 1, 1942		Last Mayor before the City Manager form of government was established under a Massachusetts Plan E Charter.
42	John H. Corcoran	1942 – December 28, 1945	Democratic	Beginning of the weak Mayor/City Manager form of government
43	John D. Lynch	1946–1947
44	Michael Neville	1948–1949
45	Edward Crane	1950–1951
46	Joseph DeGuglielmo	1952–1953
47	John J. Foley	1954–1955
48	Edward J. Sullivan	1956–1957
49	Tom McNamara	1958–1959
50	Edward Crane	1960–1965
51	Daniel Hayes	1966–1967
52	Walter Sullivan	1968–1969
53	Alfred Vellucci	1970–1971
54	Barbara Ackermann	1972–1973
55	Walter Sullivan	1974–1975
56	Alfred Vellucci	1976–1977
57	Thomas Danehy	1978–1979
58	Francis Duehay	1980–1981
59	Alfred Vellucci	1982–1983
60	Leonard J. Russell	1984–1985
61	Francis Duehay	1985
62	Walter Sullivan	1986–1987
63	Alfred Vellucci	1988–1989
64	Alice Wolf	1990–1991
65	Kenneth Reeves	1992–1995
66	Sheila Russell	1996–1997
67	Francis Duehay	1998–1999
68	Anthony Galluccio	2000–2001
69	Michael A. Sullivan	2002–2005
70	Kenneth Reeves	2006–2007
71	E. Denise Simmons	2008–2009
72	David P. Maher	2010–2011
73	Henrietta Davis	2012–2013
74	David P. Maher	2014–2015
75	E. Denise Simmons	2016–2017
76	Marc C. McGovern	2018–2019
77	Sumbul Siddiqui	2020–2024
78	E. Denise Simmons	2024–present

City managers

No.	City Manager	Term
1	John B. Atkinson	1942 – 1952
2	John J. Curry	1952 – 1966
3	Joseph DeGuglielmo	1966 – 1968
4	James Sullivan	1968 – 1970
5	John H. Corcoran	1970 – 1974
6	James Sullivan	1974 – 1981
7	Robert W. Healy	1981 – 2013
8	Richard Rossi	2013 – 2016
9	Louis A. DePasquale	2016 – 2022
Acting	Owen O’Riordan	2022 – 2022
10	Yi-An Huang	2022 – present

References

"Yi-An Huang Selected as Next Cambridge City Manager". www.cambridgema.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
"Yi-An Huang Takes the Helm as Cambridge City Manager". www.cambridgema.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2022.

Arthur Gilman (1896). The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Riverside Press. p. 63. List of the mayors from 1845 to 1896.
The Mayors of Cambridge since 1893 from the Cambridge Civic Journal
Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts from The Political Graveyard
Organizational chart – Cambridge Municipal Government structure

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