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It took 160 years and 55 mayors before Judith Flanagan Kennedy became the 56th — and first.
On Jan. 4, 2010, Ms. Flanagan Kennedy was sworn in as the city’s first female mayor – 160 years after Lynn’s first mayor, George Hood, took office.
Settled in 1629, Lynn was incorporated in 1850.
Hood, who was also a member of both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature, served as the city’s first mayor from 1850-52. Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1852-53) was a geologist and teacher who later became state geologist of Kansas.
Daniel C. Baker (1853-54) was the first president of the Lynn Common Council and also a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. Thomas P. Richardson served from 1854-55. Andrews Breed (1855-56), the fifth mayor of Lynn, and Hiram N.
Breed (1861-62), the ninth mayor, were both descended from Allen Breed, one of Lynn’s first settlers in 1630.
Democrat Ezra Mudge, who also served as a selectman and alderman, was the sixth mayor