Malcolm Nichols

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Malcolm Edwin Nichols (May 8, 1876 – February 7, 1951) was a journalist and American politician. Nichols served as the Mayor of Boston in the late 1920s. He came from a Boston Brahmin family and is the most recent Republican to serve in that post.

Early life, education, and career

Nichols was born in Portland, Maine,<ref name="HasServedIn"/> the son of Edwin T. Nichols and Helen J. G. (Pingree) Nichols. He graduated from Harvard in 1899.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After graduating from Harvard he moved to East Boston and later to Ward 10 in Boston, where he began politics by unsuccessfully running for the Boston Common Council as an opponent of Charles Hiller Innes's political machine. He later forged a friendship and alliance with Innes, the who was the local ward boss.<ref name="HasServedIn"/>

Nichols was the Massachusetts State House reporter for The Boston Traveler,<ref>Template:Citation</ref> covering both houses of the legislature, and later a political reporter for The Boston Post.<ref name="Harvard College Class of 1899"/>

Early public offices

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portrait photograph, circa 1908

In addition to his newspaper work, Nichols was a lawyer and Collector of Internal Revenue.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was elected to the Boston Common Council, serving from 1905 to 1906.<ref name="HasServedIn"/><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was later elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Ward 10 of Boston from 1907 to 1909.<ref name="HasServedIn"/><ref>Template:Citation</ref> His district represented the Back Bay. In the state house, he was a member and clerk of the House Committee on Metropolitan affairs.<ref name="Who's who in State Politics, 1908"/> He served as a member of the Massachusetts Senatein 1914, and again from 1917 to 1919.<ref name="HasServedIn"/>

After leaving the state senate, Nichols became chairman of the Schoolhouse Commission of Boston. He was later made chairman of the city's Transit Commission. He served as the head of the city's Rent Commission amid a housing shortage, and its and Fuel Commission amid a coal labor strike.<ref name="HasServedIn"/>

Mayoralty

File:1925 Boston mayoral candidate Malcolm E. Nichols,standing outside of the Boston City Hall Annex.jpg

Nichols in 1925

Nichols was elected Mayor of Boston in November 1925,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> serving from 1926 to 1930.

Nichols' mayoralty saw the creation of two dozen new schools, 197 new streets, and the start of construction on the Sumner Tunnel. He focused on increasing Boston's municipal services, providing $3 million in raises to city workers. In 1926 he raised taxes but every year after saw cuts. He relaxed zoning restrictions in his 1928 pyramidal building statute, allowing the construction of many skyscrapers, such as the United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building, and creating a boom in their construction. He established the Boston Port Authority and Boston Traffic Commission. He attempted to combat congestion in the city by proposing a $5 to $10 annual parking fee, claiming that "four out of every five cars" parking in downtown Boston were owned by nonresidents. He also attempted to lower telephone rates.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

Nichols was unable to run for reelection in November 1929 due to a ban on consecutive terms at the time. He was succeeded by his predecessor, James Michael Curley.

Later career

Nichols was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor in the November 1933, November 1937, and November 1941 elections.

Personal life

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Nichols with his children, circa 1925

Nichols was married on December 16, 1915, to Edith M. Williams (died 1925).<ref name= "NYT">Template:Citation</ref> He and his first wife had three children: sons Clark and Dexter, and daughter Marjorie.<ref name="HasServedIn"/><ref name= "NYT"/><ref name= "Time">Template:Citation</ref> His first wife died in mid-1925, leaving him a widowed.<ref name="HasServedIn">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1926 he married Edith's twin sister Carrie Marjorie Williams.<ref name= "Time"/> His son Clark acted as his best man and his son Dexter acted as the ring bearer.<ref name= "NYT"/><ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

By the time he was elected mayor, Nichols had moved to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of the city.<ref name="HasServedIn"/>

Nichols was a Swedenborgian and of English ancestry. He was a member of the Freemasons, Shriners, and Elks. Nichols died of a heart attack, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on February 7, 1951. He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

References

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Bibliography

Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court by the Secretary of the Commonwealth (1918) p. 554.
Who's who in State Politics, 1908 Practical Politics (1908) p. 265.

External links

Malcolm E. Nichols entry at The Political Graveyard
Nichols election records at ourcampaigns.com
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