John F. Fitzgerald is elected mayor of Boston.

Fitzgerald (D), with 44,171 votes, defeats Louis Frothingham (R), with 36,028, and independent candidate Judge Henry Dewey, with 11,608. Turnout is 93,830 or 82%. Fitzgerald is the first American-born, Irish-Catholic mayor of Boston and the first without facial hair. Since 1903 a resident of 39 Welles Avenue, he promises a bigger, better, busier Boston in his inaugural address in the Boston Common Council Chambers on January 1, 1906. Although one of the most popular and energetic mayors in Boston history, Colliers magazine later writes,”[Fitzgerald] took possession of the gray mock-Renaissance style City Hall on School Street like a conqueror exacting the submission of a defeated town.”