Otis Norcross is elected mayor of Boston.

Norcross (R), with 5,662 votes, defeats Nathaniel Shurtleff, with 4,755, and others. He lives at 10 McLean Street. A conservative, Norcross is later described as “a man who abhorred any increase in the city indebtedness and stood firmly against vague enterprises.” Inaugurated on January 7, 1867, he becomes the first mayor to be defeated in a bid for reelection to a second term. Norcross lives at 249 Marlborough Street.