Henry Russell is the first Boston Fire Commissioner.

He is succeeded by Patrick Kennedy (1905), Benjamin Wells (1905), Samuel Parker (1908), Francis Carroll (1910), Charles Daly (1910), John Dunn (1912), Charles Cole (1912), John Minton (1914), John Grady (1914), John Murphy (1919), Joseph Manning (1921), William Casey (1921), Theodore Glynn (1922), Thomas Sullivan (1926), Eugene Hultman (1926), Edward McLaughlin (1930), Eugene McSweeney (1933), William Arthur Reilly (1938), John Fitzgerald (1945), Russell Codman (1946), Michael Kelleher (1950), John Cotter (1953), Harry Keefe (1954), Francis Cotter (1954), Timothy O’Connor (1959), Henry Scagnoli (1960), Thomas Griffin (1961), William Fitzgerald (1966), James Kelly (1968), George Paul (1976), Leo Stapleton (1984), Martin Pierce, Jr. (1991), Dennis DiMarzio (acting, 2000), Paul Christian (2001), Roderick Fraser Jr. (2006), John Hasson (interim, 2014), and Joseph Finn (2014).