Andrew Peters is elected mayor of Boston.

Peters (D), with 37,923 votes, defeats James Michael Curley (D), with 28,848, U.S. Rep. James Gallivan (D), with 19,427, and Peter Tague (D), with less than 2,000. Turnout is 161,186 or 77.6% He is inaugurated in Faneuil Hall on February 4, 1918. Although endorsed by the Good Government Association, Peters is subsequently criticized for his handling of the Boston Police Strike in 1919* and for paying pays more attention to yachting, golf, and his teen-age mistress, Starr Faithful, than to running the city. John T. Galvin later describes his administration as “one of the most graft-ridden” in the city’s history. Peters is the first mayor of Boston prohibited by law from succeeding himself in office.