James Michael Curley is again elected mayor of Boston.

Curley (D), with 74,261 votes, defeats John Murphy, with 71,791, Charles O’Connor, with 10,844, and Charles Baxter, with 4,266, to win the office for the second time. Turnout is 161,186 or 77.6%. The Boston Post calls Curley’s victory the greatest personal triumph ever achieved by a man in the history of Boston politics, and the Boston Herald writes that it was achieved without the assistance of a single political leader of either party, and with every machine against him. Inaugurated in 1922,* Curley proceeds to engage in an unprecedented wave of municipal spending, but allegedly enriches himself in the process. William Shannon subsequently writes, “If Boston did not get everything it paid for, at least it paid for everything it got.”