Thomas Hart is elected mayor of Boston.

Hart (R), with 32,712 votes, defeats Hugh O’Brien (D), with 30,880, and George McNeill (United Party) to win the first of two consecutive terms as mayor. Hart lives at 298 Commonwealth Avenue. He is supported by the County Democracy faction of the party that opposes the ward bosses and the Committee for One Hundred, an anti-Catholic organization of wealthy Protestant businessmen formed to remove Catholics from elective office and check the growth of Catholic schools. He also benefits from a vigorous Republican effort to register immigrants from Canada and from The Pilot discouraging Catholic women from voting. Hart is a successful businessman, who consolidates a number of city departments. He lives at 198 Commonwealth Avenue.