Albert Davis Bosson was a Massachusetts jurist, attorney, and politician who served as the seventeenth Mayor of Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...

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Early life

Bosson was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. It is the smallest city in Massachusetts in land area, and the 26th most densely populated incorporated place in the country.-History:...

 on November 8, 1853 to George Chapman and Jennie (Hood) Bosson.

Family life

In 1887 Bosson married Alice Lavinia Campbell the daughter of Charles A. and Lavinia (Hutchinson) Campbell. They had two children, a son, Campbell Bosson, born on November 18, 1888, and a daughter, Pauline Arlaud Bosson, born on February 24, 1894.

Judgeship

In December 1882 Governor John Davis Long

John Davis Long

John Davis Long was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 32nd Governor of Massachusetts between 1880 and 1883. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1902....

 appointed Bosson as a Special Justice of the Chelsea Police Court. In 1892 Bosson was nominated by Governor William E. Russell

William Russell (governor)

William Eustis Russell was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 37th Governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894, becoming the state's youngest ever elected Governor at age 34.-Family:...

to be a full Justice of the Chelsea Police Court. Bosson's nomination was approved at a meeting of the Governor's Council in July 1892.

Death

Bosson died on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1926, in his apartment at the Hotel Sheraton at 91 Bay State Road, in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.