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Fire Commissioners and Chiefs of Department


This list shows the Fire Commissioners and Chiefs of Department (Chief Engineers) since 1826.

Fire Commissioners and Chiefs of Department

Date Fire Commissioner Date Chief of Department
January 1, 1874 Alfred P. Rockwell . .
April 1, 1876 Timothy T. Sawyer . .
October 6, 1876 Charles H. Allen . .
January 1, 1877 David Chamberlain . .
January 1, 1879 John E. Fitzgerald . .
January 1, 1883 Henry W. Longley . .
January 1, 1884 William A. Green January 19, 1826 Samuel D. Harris (Chief Engineer)
January 1, 1886 Robert J. Fitch February 9, 1829
Thomas C. Amory (Chief Engineer)
May 1, 1887 Richard F. Tobin January 26, 1835 William H. Tileston (Chief Engineer)
January 21, 1895 Henry S. Russell February 14, 1835 John Hammond (Chief Engineer)
February 17, 1905
Patrick J. Kennedy
February 15, 1836
William Barnicoat (Chief Engineer)
March 20, 1905 Benjamin W. Wells December 18, 1854
Elisha Smith (Chief Engineer)
February 1, 1908 Samuel D. Parker December 15, 1856
George W. Bird (Chief Engineer)
May 27, 1910 Francis M. Carroll March 19, 1866
John S. Damrell (Chief Engineer)
September 17, 1910 Charles D. Daly January 1, 1874
William A. Green ^
January 26, 1912 John H. Dunn October 23, 1884
Lewis P. Webber
February 12, 1912 Charles H. Cole March 23, 1901
William T. Cheswell #
March 7, 1914 John M. Minton February 23, 1906
John A. Mullen
March 11, 1914 John Grady March 7, 1914
John Grady ^
January 1, 1919 John R. Murphy March 11, 1914
Peter F. McDonough
November 8, 1921 Joseph P. Manning July 31, 1919
Peter E. Walsh
April 1, 1922 William J. Casey March 7, 1922
John O. Taber
August 24, 1922 Theodore A. Glynn December 19, 1924
Daniel F. Sennott
January 26, 1926 Thomas F. Sullivan May 26, 1930
Henry A.C. Fox
July 6, 1926 Eugene C. Hultman November 21, 1936
Samuel J. Pope
March 5, 1930 Edward F. McLaughlin January 28, 1946
Napeen Bouitilier
October 16, 1933 Eugene M. McSweeney March 31, 1948
John F. McDonough
January 4, 1938
William Arthur Reilly
November 1, 1950
John V. Stapleton
June 7, 1945 John I. Fitzgerald June 6, 1956
Edward N. Montgomery
January 1, 1946
Russell S. Codman
September 5, 1956
Leo C. Driscoll
Jnauary 3, 1950
Michael T. Kelleher
February 1, 1960
John A. Martin
January 1, 1953 John F. Cotter November 13, 1963
William A. Terrenzi
January 26, 1954 Harry J. Keefe November 1, 1966
James J. Flanagan
February 1, 1954
Francis X. Cotter
February 8, 1967
John E. Clougherty
March 2, 1959
Timothy J. O'Connor
February 1, 1969
Joseph F. Kilduff
January 4, 1960
Henry A. Scagnoli
April 8, 1970
George H. Paul +
July 13, 1961
Thomas J. Griffin
February 1, 1984
Leo D. Stapleton *
August 17, 1966
William J. Fitzgerald
January 3, 1991
Martin E. Pierce Jr. *
March 27, 1968
James H. Kelly
March 25, 2000
Paul A. Christian +
February 25, 1976
George H. Paul +
September 5, 2006
Kevin P. MacCurtain
February 1, 1984
Leo D. Stapleton *
March 5, 2009
Ronald W. Keating
January 3, 1991
Martin E. Pierce Jr. *
. .
November 9, 2001
Paul A. Christian +
. .
September 5, 2006
Roderick J. Fraser, Jr.
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# = LODD (Line Of Duty Death), February 15, 1906, at a North End fire.
^ = Chief of Department, resigned, then later appointed Fire Commissioner.
* = Appointed Chief of Department and Fire Commissioner at the same time.
+ = Chief of Department, later additionally appointed Fire Commissioner.



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