Stephen O’Meara becomes the first individual Boston Police Commissioner.

He is succeeded by Edwin Curtis (1918), Herbert Wilson (1922), Eugene Hultman (1930), Joseph Leonard (1934), Eugene McSweeney (1935), Joseph Timilty (1936), Thomas Sullivan (1943), Leo Sullivan (1957), Edmund McNamara (1962*), Robert diGrazia (1972), Joseph Jordan (1976), Francis Roache (1985), William Bratton (1993), Paul Evans (1994), Kathleen O’Toole (2004*), Edward Davis (2006), William Evans (2014), William Gross (2018*), Dennis White (2021),* and Michael Cox.*