Martin Brimmer Whig Thomas Aspinwall Davis Know Nothing The 1844–45 Boston mayoral election was held in eight rounds from December 9, 1844 through February 21, 1845.

The eight ballot saw the election of Native American Party nominee Thomas Aspinwall Davis as mayor of Boston.

[1] The election marked the rise of the city's newly founded Native American Party (Know Nothing) organization.

[4][5] It was alternatively described as reflecting dividing lines between party-line Whigs, locofocos, nativists, and abolitionists.

[11][12] The Whig Party parted with Quincy as their nominee and instead nominated Thomas Wetmore for the second vote of the election.

Wetmore declined to run again and the Whig Party instead nominated former mayor Samuel Atkins Eliot.

By the time of the seventh vote, the Boston Tribune, a Whig newspaper, was conceding that they did not believe that their party did not stand a chance of ultimately prevailing in the mayor's race.

[20] After the vote, a reporter wrote, It is evident to close observers here, that the subject of religious opinion has much to do in the matter, or other word, that it is a contest in part between Orthodox and Unitarian sects.