
Malcolm Edwin Nichols (8 May 1876-7 February 1951) was the Republican Mayor of Boston from 4 January 1926 to 6 January 1930, interrupting James Michael Curley's terms.
Biography[]
Malcolm Edwin Nichols was born in Portland, Maine in 1876 to a Boston Brahmin family, and he worked as the Massachusetts State House reporter for The Boston Traveler and as a political reporter for The Boston Post. He went on to serve in the State House from 1907 to 1909, in the State Senate from 1918 to 1919, and as Boston's last Republican mayor from 1926 to 1930. He died in 1951.