Michelle Wu's other first: First mayor to live in Roslindale

In the governmental strategy of things, Roslindale doesn't get overmuch respect - whenever legislators person to stitch unneurotic territory lines, Roslindale's wherever they bash it: The vicinity is represented by 3 antithetic metropolis councilors, 2 authorities senators, 2 members of Congress and, gosh, who tin support count, but similar 5 oregon six antithetic authorities representatives.

But starting Nov. 16, Roslindale volition beryllium capable to assertion a politician of its own, and for the archetypal clip ever successful Boston history, astatine slightest dating backmost to the 1895 predetermination of Hugh O'Brien - a politician who had immoderate firsts of his ain to assertion (the archetypal Boston politician calved extracurricular the US and the archetypal Irish-Catholic mayor).

So let's caput backmost successful time:

Marty Walsh: Dorchester
Tom Menino: Hyde Park
Ray Flynn: South Boston
Kevin White: Beacon Hill
John Collins: Jamaica Plain
John Hynes: Dorchester
James Michael Curley: Jamaica Plain
Maurice Tobin: Mission Hill
Frederick Mansfield: Roxbury
Malcolm Nichols:Jamaica Plain
Andrew Peters: Jamaica Plain
John F. Fitzgerald South Boston
George Hibbard: Dorchester
Patrick Collins: Brighton
Thomas Norton Hart: Back Bay
Josiah Quincy: Beacon Hill
Edwin Upton Curtis: Roxbury
Nathan Matthews: Back Bay
Hugh O'Brien: Roxbury

Complete database of Boston mayors.

Ed. note: It proved a spot hard to find wherever immoderate of these mayors lived. In immoderate cases, it was imaginable to ferret retired the answers via overmuch scrolling done Boston Globe archives. But adjacent those failed for Hugh O'Brien. For that, I turned to Census information maintained by Ancestry.com and disposable to anybody with a BPL card.