Hugh O'Brien
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Hugh O'Brien served as the mayor of Boston from 1884 to 1888. O'Brien is notable as Boston's first Irish and Catholic mayor, having emigrated from Ireland to America in the early 1830s. O'Brien was th
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Augustus Pearl Martin
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Augustus Pearl Martin was an American politician and soldier from Massachusetts who served as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884. He also was a leading artillery officer in the Union Army dur
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…He also sought to decrease expenditures within the city, in order to lower taxes. After having lost the 1883 Boston mayoral election to Republican Augustus Pearl Martin by 1,544 votes, O'Brien defeated Martin in a 1884 rematch by a margin of 3,326 votes. He was the first Irishman to become mayor of Boston. O'Brien…
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Sketch of Martin, circa 1884