Winfield Temple Explained

Winfield Temple
Office2:22nd Mayor of Marlborough
Term Start2:1926
Term End2:1929
Predecessor2:James M. Hurley
Successor2:Amedee Martel
Birth Date:November 4, 1875
Party:Republican
Profession:Lawyer
Spouse:Lucy Howe Temple
Residence:201 Church Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts; (September 1918)

Winfield Temple (November 4, 1875  - 1957[1]) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Political career

In 1909, Temple ran for 9th Middlesex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Republican.[2] He was defeated on November 2, 1909, by Democrat Charles F. McCarthy by 893 votes. McCarthy would later serve in the Massachusetts State Senate and was elected the 18th Mayor of Marlborough in 1917.[3]

Temple served as the 22nd Mayor of Marlborough, Massachusetts from 1926 to 1929. He was the second mayor of Marlborough ever to be elected in a non-partisan election under a modified Massachusetts Plan B form of government.

Notes

  1. Web site: Winfield Temple (1875-1957) . Find A Grave . 20 February 2019.
  2. Book: Public Documents of Massachusetts: Being the Annual Reports of Various Public Officers and Institutions for the Year 1909 . Secretary of the Commonwealth . 1910 . Vol. XI . Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 18 Post Office Square. Boston . 88.
  3. Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1919), A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston, 1917–1919, Stoughton, MA: A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman, p. 81

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