1867 Boston mayoral election

Election in Massachusetts, United States January 2025 September 2023 1867 Boston mayoral election Presidential no 1866 Boston mayoral election 1866 December 9, 1867A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown, 1847-1873 and of the Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822: Also of Various Other Town and Municipal Officers 1909 City of Boston Printing Department 54 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=n_BMAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA54 7 April 2023 en 1868 Boston mayoral election 1868 Mayor NB Shurtleff (2).png Nathaniel B. Shurtleff Democratic Party (United States) 8,383 51.53% Otis Norcross 5210004 015 018 (1).jpg Otis Norcross Republican Party (United States) 7,867 48.36% Mayor Otis Norcross Republican Party (United States) Nathaniel B. Shurtleff Democratic Party (United States) Boston The 1867 Boston mayoral election saw the election of Democratic nominee Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, who unseated Republican incumbent Otis Norcross. The Democratic victory came in a nationally strong year for Democratic Party electoral gains. Nominees Otis Norcross (Republican): incumbent mayor since 1867, former chairman of the Boston Board of Aldermen Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (Democrat): Democratic nominee for mayor in 1865 and 1866; Know Nothing nominee for mayor in 1855 Results 1867 Boston mayoral election Democratic Party (United States) Nathaniel B. Shurtleff 8,383 51.53 Republican Party (United States) Otis Norcross (incumbent) 7,867 48.36 Others Scattering 18 0.11 16,268 100.00 The election was closely contested. Democratic nominee Shurtleff defeated Republican incumbent Norcross. Shurtleff carried wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15. Norcross carried wards 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14.Municipal Elections https://www.newspapers.com/image/734935773 Newspapers.com Boston Evening Transcript 13 March 2024 en Dec 9, 1867 After the coinciding Boston City Council elections, the Republicans were left with majorities in both chambers. The Board of Aldermen had 7 Republican members and 5 Democratic members. The Common Council had 38 Republicans and 22 Democratic members. By the standards of the Reconstruction era, Democrats had fared well in elections held in 1867.Impeachment Rejected, November to December 1867 US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/Johnson-Impeachment/Impeachment-Rejected/ history.house.gov United States House of Representatives 2 March 2021 en That year, Republicans lost sizable ground to the Democrats in eighteen out of the twenty states that held elections. Republicans only improved upon their 1866 election performances in the states of Michigan and Kentucky.Benedict Michael Les The impeachment and trial of Andrew Johnson. 1973 Norton New York 0-393-05473-X [1st] 3. The Politics of Impeachment In Connecticut's April elections, Democrats had won the governorship and three of the state's four House seats, marking the Republican Party's first losses in a Northern state since 1864. As the year went on, the Democratic party enjoyed further success at the Republican Party's expense, including winning control of the Ohio General Assembly.Multiple sources: Levine Robert S. 179–180 The failed promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson 2021 New York, NY 9781324004752 First Stewart David O. Impeached: the Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy Simon and Schuster 2009 978-1-4165-4749-5 New York Stewart David O. Stewart 95–97 Castel Albert E. https://archive.org/details/presidencyofandr00albe The Presidency of Andrew Johnson The Regents Press of Kansas 1979 978-0-7006-0190-5 American Presidency Lawrence, Kan. Albert E. Castel 124 and 146 Democrats also came close to winning the 1867 Ohio gubernatorial election, with Republicans only managing a narrow victory. Boston's electorate had long favored Republicans, making a Democratic victory in its mayoral race notable. In addition to Boston, the Democratic Party also won the previously-Republican mayoralties in several other cities; winning the Baltimore, Manchester (New Hampshire), and Pittsburgh mayoral elections. Democratic Party-sympathetic newspapers, including the Wheeling Register and New York World, touted the mayoral victories in Boston and other cities as indicative of growing national support for the Democratic Party. The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, The late Democratic triumphs in Boston and Pittsburgh, at their municipal elections, are among the strongest evidence that the political reaction which has been sweeping over the country with such force during the past year is still going on with increased momentum and violence. A year ago, if there had been two places upon the face of the earth that the Democrats would have conceded as the most hopeless for them, they would have been the great Radical [Republican] strongholds of Boston in the East, and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, in each of which the Radical majorities have for years raged high into the thousands. Now the Republican organization has been beaten, and badly beaten in both of them, and Democratic Mayors elected triumphantly.How the News of the Pittsburgh Election is Received Abroad https://www.newspapers.com/image/86521245 Newspapers.com The Pittsburgh Post 13 March 2024 en December 21, 1867 See also List of mayors of Boston, Massachusetts References 30em Category:Mayoral elections in Boston Boston Boston mayoral Category:19th century in Boston Category:December 1867 in the United States collapsed