List of mayors of Brockton, Massachusetts

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

Mayors

#	Mayor	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 L. 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	1984–1992
44th	Winthrop Farwell, Jr.	1992–1996
45th	Jack Yunits	1996–2006
46th	James E. Harrington	2006–2010
47th	Linda Balzotti	2010–2014
48th	William Carpenter	2014–July 2, 2019		Died in office
49th	Moises Rodrigues	July 2, 2019-January 6, 2020		Councilor-At-Large. Served as acting mayor following the death of William Carpenter.
50th	Robert F. Sullivan	January 6, 2020–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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