Jerome V. C. Smith
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Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith was an American medical doctor, writer and politician, serving as the fourteenth mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855.
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1851 Boston mayoral election
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The 1851 Boston mayoral election saw the election of Benjamin Seaver, a former president of the Boston Common Council, as mayor of Boston. The election took three votes, as no candidate secured the ne
Jerome V. C. Smith
…1825-6). In civic affairs, Smith served as quarantine physician for the port of Boston (1826–48), and then ran for mayor of the city in December 1848, December 1851 and December 1852 before being elected mayor in January 1854. In each of these contests he was opposed by establishment Whig candidates, while he ran…
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Ward 12 Democratic Party ticket from the 1851 election