Edwin Upton Curtis

Edwin Upton Curtis
Curtis circa 1896
Commissioner of the Boston Police Department
In office
December 30, 1918 – March 28, 1922
Preceded byStephen O'Meara
Succeeded byHerbert A. Wilson
Mayor of Boston
In office
January 7, 1895[1] – January 6, 1896[2]
Preceded byNathan Matthews Jr.
Succeeded byJosiah Quincy
City Clerk of
Boston, Massachusetts[3]
In office
1889–1890
Preceded byJoseph H. O'Neil
Succeeded byJ. Mitchel Galvin
Personal details
Born(1861-05-26)May 26, 1861
Roxbury, Boston
DiedMarch 28, 1922(1922-03-28) (aged 60)
Back Bay, Boston
Political partyRepublican[3][4]
EducationRoxbury Latin School
Alma materBowdoin College
ProfessionAttorney[3]

Edwin Upton Curtis (May 26, 1861 – March 28, 1922) was an American attorney[3] and politician from Massachusetts who served as the mayor of Boston (1895–1896). Later, as Boston Police Commissioner (1918–1922), his refusal to recognize the trade union formed by the department's officers provoked the 1919 Boston Police Strike.[5]

  1. ^ "Boston's New Mayor". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. January 8, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 24, 2018 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "MAYOR QUINCY'S INAUGURAL". The Boston Globe. January 7, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved March 22, 2018 – via pqarchiver.com.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference CraneEBHHofWC1907p26 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Ciment, James (2007), The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Inc., p. 52, ISBN 978-1-57607-849-5
  5. ^ Robert K. Murray, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955),122-34