John Phillips (mayor)

John Phillips
1st Mayor of Boston
In office
May 1, 1822[1] – May 1, 1823[2]
Preceded byEliphalet Williams
(Chairman of the Board of Selectmen)[3]
Succeeded byJosiah Quincy III
Personal details
Born(1770-11-26)November 26, 1770
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America
DiedMay 29, 1823(1823-05-29) (aged 52)
Boston, Massachusetts, US
SpouseSally Walley (m. December 1794)
Alma materHarvard College
ProfessionAttorney
(admitted to the Massachusetts bar 1791)

John Phillips (November 26, 1770 – May 29, 1823) was an American politician, serving as the first mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1822 to 1823. He was the father of abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

  1. ^ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, p. 212
  2. ^ A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822-1908, Roxbury, 1846-1867, Charlestown 1847-1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634-1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, Boston, MA: City of Boston Printing Department, 1909, p. 213
  3. ^ Quincy, Josiah (1852), A municipal history of the Town and City of Boston during two Centuries, Boston, MA: Charles Little and James Brown, p. 42