Colonel William A. Phillips

The mayor of Salem is the head of municipal government of Salem, Massachusetts. There was no mayor of Salem until its city charter was accepted on March 23, 1836, prior to which Salem was still incorporated as a town.

List

#	Mayor	Term	Party	Notes
1st	Leverett Saltonstall	1836–1838	Whig	First mayor under the original city charter, (which included a bicameral legislative body). From 1836 to 1856 the Municipal year ended on the second Monday in March.
2nd	Stephen C. Phillips	1838–1842	Whig
3rd	Stephen Palfrey Webb	1842–1845	Whig	Also served as the twelfth Mayor of Salem. From 1854 to 1855 Webb served as the sixth Mayor of San Francisco, California
4th	Joseph S. Cabot	1845–1849	Whig
5th	Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr.	1849–1851	Whig
6th	David Pingree	1851–1852	Independent
7th	Charles Wentworth Upham	1852–1853	Whig
8th	Asahel Huntington	1853–1854	Know Nothing
9th	Joseph Andrews	1854–1856	Know Nothing	From 1856 to 1874 inclusive the Municipal year ended on the Fourth Monday in January.
10th	William S. Messervy	1856–1858	Democratic
11th	Nathaniel Silsbee, Jr.	1858–1859	Republican
12th	Stephen Palfrey Webb	1860–1862	Republican	Second time as Mayor of Salem. From 1854 to 1855 Webb served as the sixth Mayor of San Francisco, California
13th	Stephen G. Wheatland	1863–1864	Democratic
14th	Joseph B. F. Osgood	1865–1865	Republican
15th	David Roberts	January 1866 – September 26, 1867	Republican	Roberts resigned as a result of disagreement with the Board of Aldermen.
16th	William Cogswell	September 26, 1867–1869	Republican
17th	Nathanial Brown	1870–1871	None
18th	Samuel Calley	1872–1872	Republican
19th	William Cogswell	1873–1875	Republican	From 1875 on the Municipal year ends on the First Monday in January.
20th	Henry Laurens Williams	1875–1876	None
21st	Henry K. Oliver	1877–1880	Republican
22nd	Samuel Calley	1881–1882	Republican
23rd	William M. Hill	1883–1884	None
24th	Arthur L. Huntington	1885–1885	None
25th	John M. Raymond	1886–1887	None
26th	Robert S. Rantoul	1890–1893	Democratic
27th	James H. Turner	1894–1897	None
28th	David P. Waters	1898–1898	None
29th	James H. Turner	1899–1899	None
30th	David M. Little	1900–1900	None
31st	John F. Hurley	1901–1902	None
32nd	Joseph N. Peterson	1903–1905	Republican
33rd	Thomas G. Pinnock	1906–1907	Republican
34th	John F. Hurley	1908–1909	None
35th	Arthur Howard	1910–1910	None
36th	Rufus D. Adams	1911–1912	Republican	Last mayor under the Original (1836) city charter.
37th	John F. Hurley	1913–1915		First Mayor under the second city charter adopted in November 1912. Was Recalled by the voters December 29, 1914.
38th	Mathias J. O'Keefe	1915–1915		Elected to finish out John F. Hurley's three-year term in the December 29, 1914 election that recalled Mayor Hurley.
39th	Henry P. Benson	1916–1917		Last Mayor under the second (1912) city charter (Commission form of Government).
40th	Denis J. Sullivan	1918–1923	Republican^[6]	First Mayor under the January 3, 1916 (Plan B) city charter.
41st	George J. Bates	1924–1937	Republican	Served in U.S. House from January 3, 1937 – November 1, 1949.
42nd	Edward A. Coffey	1938–1947	Republican
43rd	Joseph B. Harrington	1948–1949	Democratic
44th	Francis X. Collins	1950–1969	Democratic
45th	Samuel Edward Zoll	1970–1973	Democratic
46th	Jean A. Levesque	1973–1983	Republican
47th	Anthony V. Salvo	1984–1989	Democratic
48th	Neil J. Harrington	1990–1997	Democratic
49th	Stanley J. Usovicz, Jr.	1998–2005	Democratic
50th	Kim Driscoll	January 2006 – January 4, 2023	Democratic	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in the 2022 election
51st	Bob McCarthy	January 4, 2023 – May 27, 2023		Elected by Salem City Council as Acting Mayor following resignation of Mayor Kim Driscoll.
52nd	Dominick Pangallo	May 27, 2023 – Present	Democratic	Elected Mayor in special election on May 16, 2023, to complete Mayor Kim Driscoll's term.