The

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

mayoral election of 1895 occurred on Tuesday, December 10, 1895. Democratic nominee Josiah Quincy defeated Republican incumbent mayor Edwin Upton Curtis and one other contender to win election to his first term. Due to a change of the city charter in June 1895, this was the first Boston mayoral election for a two-year term; prior mayoral elections had been held annually. Quincy was inaugurated on Monday, January 6, 1896. His grandfather Josiah Quincy IV (known as Josiah Quincy Jr.) and great-grandfather

Josiah Quincy III Josiah Quincy III (; February 4, 1772 – July 1, 1864) was an American educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813), mayor of Boston (1823–1828), and President of Harvard University (182 ...

also had served as Mayors of Boston.

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* Edwin Upton Curtis (Republican), incumbent Mayor of Boston, former City Clerk of Boston (1889–1890) * Frank Parsons (Municipal Reform), "lecturer on insurance at

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"—referred to as the candidate for the "municipal reform party", "a fusion of

prohibitionists Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic be ...

, labor, populists, and socialists" Parsons was a Populist. * Josiah Quincy (Democrat), former member of the

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(1887–1888, 1890–1891), and

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(1893)

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