| Nathan Matthews Jr. | |
| Office: | Mayor of Boston |
| Term Start: | 1891 |
| Term End: | 1894 |
| Predecessor: | Thomas N. Hart |
| Successor: | Edwin Upton Curtis |
| Birth Date: | 28 March 1854 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Restingplace: | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Spouse: | Ellen B. Sargent |
| Children: | Sullivan Amory Matthews, Ellen Nathalie Matthews |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard A.B., 1875; L.L.B., 1880; L.L.D., 1909. University of Leipzig 1876–1877. |
| Profession: | Attorney |
Nathan Matthews Jr. (March 28, 1854 – December 11, 1927) was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as mayor of Boston from 1891 to 1894.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 28, 1854, son of Nathan and Albertine (Bunker) Matthews.[1] Nathan Matthews Jr. was a lawyer-turned-politician who served as the mayor of Boston from 1891 to 1894. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Matthews earned an A.B. from Harvard College in 1875 and a LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1880. He married Ellen Bacon, daughter of Col. Lucius Manlius Sargent Jr. on April 5, 1883.[2] They had two children, Ellen Natalie Matthews and Sullivan Amory Matthews.
On December 15, 1891, Mathews was reelected Mayor over Horace G. Allen by 15,182 votes.
Matthews died at Massachusetts General Hospital on December 11, 1927, from a pulmonary embolism. He is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the State of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, (1915), page 731.