Theodore Lyman Jr. is elected mayor of Boston.

Lyman (Nat.-R) defeats William Sullivan by a margin of 3,734 to 2,009 and others to win election. Inaugurated on January 6, 1834, he is, according to historian John T. Galvin, “The most intellectual mayor Boston has ever had.” Lyman calls for bringing a “a copious and steady supply of pure and soft water into the City of Boston,” and engineer Loammi Baldwin is retained to develop a plan to do this, but the plan is implemented until 12 years later. Lyman lives at 8 Mount Vernon Place.