Barbara Ackermann

Barbara Ackermann
Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office 1972–1973
Preceded by	Alfred Vellucci
Succeeded by	Walter Sullivan
Personal details
Political party	Democratic

Barbara Ackermann is an American politician and activist who served on the Cambridge, Massachusetts School Committee from 1962 to 1967, the City Council from 1968 to 1977, and was Mayor from 1972 to 1973.

Ackermann was an opponent of the Vietnam War and a supporter of Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential election.

Ackermann was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1978. She finished behind Edward J. King and Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary with 6.72% to King's 51.07% and Dukakis' 42.20%.

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