The historic portraits displayed in Council Chambers at City Hall honor the individuals who have served as Mayor throughout the city’s history. Because the portraits are arranged to fit the space, they are not displayed in chronological order. The list below presents each Mayor in order of their respective dates of service.
First Mayor to Present:
- Charles S. Whitehouse (1892)
- Orrin A. Hoyt (1893–1894)
- Robert V. Sweet (1895; 1916)
- Samuel D. Felker (1896–1897)
- William G. Bradley (1898–1899; 1902–1903; 1907–1909)
- Horace L. Worchester (1900–1901)
- Charles W. Bickford (1904–1906)
- Joseph Warren (1910–1911)
- John H. Bates (1912)
- Frank B. Preston (1913–1914)
- William Wright (1915)
- J. Levi Meader (1917)
- James B. Young (1918–1920)
- William K. Kimball (1921–1922)
- Frederic E. Small (1923)
- William S. Davis (1924)
- Elihu A. Corson (1925–1928)
- Louis H. McDuffee (1929–1932)
- Sumner W. Watson (1933–1935)
- Harry H. Meader (1936)
- John F. Conrad (1937–1939)
- Joshua Studley (1940)
- Charles H. Felker (1941)
- Walter H. Wood (1942–1944)
- C. Wesley Lyons (1945–1947; 1949–1952)
- Thomas H. Burbank (1948)
- John Shaw (1953–1955; 1968–1969; 1972–1979)
- Robert W. Watson (1956–1959)
- John M. Meader (1960–1963)
- Royal H. Edgerly (1964–1967)
- Bert George (1970–1971)
- Richard P. Green (1980–1989)
- Roland Roberge (1990–1994)
- Frederick Steadman (1994–1995)
- Harvey E. Bernier (1996–1998)
- Douglas LaChance (1998–2000)
- Walter Hoerman (2001–2004)
- David E. Walker (2004–2005)
- John Larochelle (2006–2009)
- Thomas J. Jean (2010–2015)
- Caroline McCarley (2015–2021)
- Elaine Lauterborn (2021)
- Paul Callaghan (2022–2025)
- Charles W. Grassie Jr. (2026–Present)
