List of mayors of Newburyport, Massachusetts

The mayor of Newburyport is the head of the municipal government in Newburyport, Massachusetts. There was no mayor of Newburyport until 1851, because up to that point Newburyport was still incorporated as a town.

#	Mayor	Term	Party	Notes
1st	Caleb Cushing	June 24, 1851 – June 21, 1852	Democrat	Resigned June 21, 1852.
2nd	Henry Johnson	June 21, 1852 – 1853		Johnson was elected on June 21, 1852, to fill the position after Caleb Cushing resigned. Johnson was subsequently elected mayor in the annual city election of 1853.
3rd	Moses Davenport	1854-1855
4th	William Cushing	1855–1858
5th	Albert Currier	1859–1860
6th	Moses Davenport	1861-February 18, 1861		Died on February 18, 1861.
7th	George W. Jackman Jr.	February 27, 1861 – 1862	Democrat	Elected on February 27, 1861, to replace Moses Davenport, who had died February 18, 1861. Jackman was subsequently elected mayor in the election of 1862.
8th	Issac H. Boardman	1863–1863
9th	George W. Jackman Jr.	1864-1865	Democrat
10th	William Graves	1866-1866
11th	Eben Francis Stone	1867–1867	Republican
12th	Nathaniel Pierce	1868-1869
13th	Robert Couch	1870-1870
14th	Elbridge G. Kelly	1871-1872
15th	Warren Currier	1873-1874
16th	Benjamin F. Atkinson	1875-1876
17th	George W. Jackman, Jr.	1877-1877		Democrat
18th	Jonathan Smith	1878-1878
19th	John J. Currier	1879-1880
20th	Robert Couch	1881-1881
21st	Benjamin Hale	1882-1882
22nd	William A. Johnson	1883-1884
23rd	Thomas C. Simpson	1885-1885	Republican
24th	Charles C. Dame	1886-1886
25th	J. Otis Winkley	1887-1887
26th	William H. Huse	1888-March 28, 1888	Republican	Died March 28, 1888, replaced on April 2, 1888, by Albert C. Titcomb.
27th	Albert C. Titcomb	April 2, 1888 – 1889		Elected on April 2, 1888, to replace William H. Huse, who had died on March 28, 1888, Titcomb was elected to a full term in the annual city election of 1889.
28th	Elisha P. Dodge	1890-1891
29th	Orin J. Gurney	1892-1895
30th	Andrew R. Curtis	1896-1897
31st	George H. Plummer	1898-1898
32nd	Thomas Huse	1899-1900	Republican
33rd	Moses Brown	1901-1902
34th	James F. Carens	1903-1904
35th	William F. Houston	1905-1906
36th	Alfred F. Hunt	1907-1907
37th	Irvin Besse	1908-1908
38th	Alfred F. Hunt	1909-1909
39th	Robert E. Burke	1910-1912
40th	Hiram H. Landford	1913-1914
41st	Clarence J. Fogg	1915-1916	Republican
42nd	Walter B. Hopkinson	1917-1918	Republican
43rd	David P. Page	1919-1920
44th	Michael Cashman	1921-1925
45th	Oscar H. Nelson	1926-1927
46th	Andrew J. Gillis	1928-1931
47th	Gayden Wells Morrill	1932-1935
48th	Andrew J. Gillis	1936-1937
49th	James F. Carens	1938-1941
50th	John H. Kelleher	1942-1949
51st	Andrew J. Gillis	1950-1953
52nd	Henry Graf, Jr.	1954-1957
53rd	Andrew J. Gillis	1958-1959
54th	Albert H. Zabriskie	1960-1963
55th	George H. Lawler, Jr.	1964-1967
56th	Byron J. Matthews	1968-1978
56th	Richard E. Sullivan	1978-1985
57th	Peter J. Matthews	1985-1987
58th	Edward G. Molin	1988-1989
59th	Peter J. Matthews	1990-1993
60th	Lisa L. Mead	1994-1997		Resigned to accept a position in Senator John Kerry's office.
Acting	Christopher R. Sullivan	1997
61st	Mary M. Carrier	1998-1999
62nd	Lisa L. Mead	2000-2001
63rd	Al Lavender	2002-2003
64th	Mary Anne Clancy	2004-2005
65th	John F. Moak	2006-2009
66th	Donna D. Holaday	2010–2022
67th	Sean R. Reardon	2022–present

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