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George A. Hibbard

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city workers, halving street maintenance expenses, and decreasing the city's debt. He also established a permanent Finance Committee appointed by the governor to act as a counterweight to the local Democrats. Nonetheless, his actions earned him numerous enemies, and the reform coalition refused to endorse him for reelection. Despite this, the ailing mayor ran anyway, spurred on by Fitzgerald who wanted to divide the vote. In the
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Historian Peter Jones argues that Hibbard was not a true reformer. His triumph in the mayoral election was a result of Fitzgerald's blunders. It was a transient reaction to the Democratic Party's high spending. Hibbard, during his two years as mayor, made drastic cuts, releasing nearly a thousand
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On May 29, 1910, four months after the election, Hibbard died in his home of tuberculosis. He was 45 years old.
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candidate, had 15,811 votes. Hibbard served as mayor from January 1908 to February 1910.
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George Albee Hibbard was born in Boston on October 27, 1864. His father was a
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in 1880. At the age of 20, he began working for his father, and he
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business. His time as a businessman was considered unsuccessful.
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He began his independent career in the 1880s, going into the
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industry. He then later worked for a firm that dealt in the
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Mayor of Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Boston
Massachusetts
Dorchester, Boston
Republican
Dorchester, Boston
Alma mater
Harvard University

American
businessman
politician
mayor of Boston
wholesaler
Quincy Market
abolitionist
Boston Public Schools
Harvard University
passed the bar
insurance
commercial paper
tailoring
Postmaster
December 1907
Republican
Democratic
John F. Fitzgerald

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