James Michael Curley is elected to the Boston Common Council.

Curley (D) is elected as one of three representatives from Roxbury’s Ward 17 to the 75-member council. It is the first election victory for Curley, who had been unsuccessful in his two previous campaigns for the office in 1897 and 1898. Curley later calls politics “The one field in which a man who worked wholeheartedly for the welfare of the people could rise and get somewhere.” He lives at 105 Mount Pleasant Avenue.