225:. In 1940 he was elected council president. From 1940 to 1944, Galvin was also chairman of the Democratic City Committee. He was reelected council president in 1941, becoming only the second councilor to serve two consecutive terms as president. He was defeated for reelection in 1941 by Michael Leo Kinsella.
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