Hugh O'Brien | |
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31st Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts | |
In office January 5, 1885 – January 7, 1889 |
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Preceded by | Augustus P. Martin |
Succeeded by | Thomas N. Hart |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ireland |
July 13, 1827
Died | August 1, 1895 Massachusetts |
(aged 68)
Political party | Democratic |
Hugh O'Brien (July 13, 1827 – August 1, 1895) was the 31st mayor of Boston, from 1884–1888. O'Brien is notable as Boston's first Irish and Catholic mayor, having emigrated from Ireland to America in the early 1830s. O'Brien was the editor of the Shipping and Commercial List, and served as a Boston alderman, from 1875–83.