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Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

mayoral election of 1858 saw the reelection of Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. It was held on December 13, 1858. Lincoln was nominated on a "Citizens" ticket supported by a nonpartisan group of residents. Kimball was nominated by the

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and Palmer was nominated by a

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party. Although nominated by both the People's Union and National American (

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) parties, former mayor

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declined to campaign.''Boston Evening Transcript,'' 13 December 1858, p. 2.

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