John F. Fitzgerald is again elected mayor of Boston.

Fitzgerald (D), with 47,177 votes, narrowly defeats James Jackson Storrow (R), with 45,775, incumbent George Hibbard (Ind.), with 1,614, and Nathaniel Taylor, in the closest mayoral election in modern Boston history. A record 90% of eligible voters turn out at the polls. The first mayor elected to a four-year term, Fitzgerald ran on the slogan “Manhood Against Money,” and Storrow’s slogans included “For Better streets! For Better Schools!” Fitzgerald is inaugurated in Faneuil Hall on February 7, 1910. William Shannon later writes, “With the defeat of their ‘best’ candidate, James J. Storrow, in 1910, the Yankees retreated to a position of a minority of moralizing critics; with the subsequent election of James M. Curley in 1913, the Irish turned to the politics of catharsis.”