Results of the Municipal Elections
Worcester, Dec. 11, 1854
(The National Ægis, Dec. 13, 1854)

Mayor Votes

Whole number of votes 1923
Necessary for a choice 862
George W. Richardson, K.N. 1599
James Estabrook, Dem. 388
Scattering 36

Aldermen

Henry Earl, K.N. (Ward 1) 1664
Samuel Davis, " (Ward 2) 1661
Wm. T. Merrifield (Ward 3) 1654
John P. Southgate (Ward 4) 1655
Wm. H. Harris (Ward 5) 1640
James H. Wall (Ward 6) 1564
Alvan Waite (Ward 7) 1616
Henry Goulding (Ward 8) 1611

"These are elected by more than 1000 majority.
The Democratic candidates for Alderman average about 287 votes each, and there were 96 scattering in all. The vote for Councilmen and other officers was about the same as the vote for Aldermen."

Councilmen

John Gates (Ward 1) Alexander Thayer (Ward 1) Alexander Putnam (Ward 1) Samuel A. Knox (Ward 2) Ozias Hudson (Ward 2) Reubin Randall (Ward 3) Leonard Pole (Ward 3) Henry Tolman (Ward 3) Francis Harrington (Ward 4) Lewis Sturtevant (Ward 4) Nathan Washburn (Ward 4)

Francis Strong (Ward 5) Geo. E. Wyman (Ward 5) Edw. S. Stebbins (Ward 5) Loring Wetherell (Ward 6) John B. Dexter (Ward 6) Thomas Pierce (Ward 6) Geo. M. Rice (Ward 7) Henry Griffin (Ward 7) Thomas Earle (Ward 7) Jos. D. Daniels (Ward 8) P. Hammond (Ward 8) Jos. P. Cheney (Ward 8)

School Committee at large

Horace James, Daniel E. Chapin, John G. Adams, Archibald M. Morrison, George Bushnell, Stephen Salisbury, Putnam W. Taft, William H. Harris

School Committee

A. Hutchinson (Ward 1); John F. Gleason (Ward 5)
David Hitchcock (Ward 1); James A. Whipple (Ward 5)
Warren Lazell (Ward 2) ;John C. Newton (Ward 6)
T. K. Earle (Ward 2); Gustavius A. Jenks (Ward 6)
William Sleeper (Ward 3);Anthony Chase (Ward 7)
Thomas Tucker (Ward 3); Augustus Tucker (Ward 7)
George H. Harlow (Ward 4); L. B. Nichols (Ward 8)
Asa L. Burbank (Ward 4); Seth P. Miller (Ward 8)