Edward W. Quinn was involved in the politics of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

 and was the mayor from 1918-1930. in Middlesex County

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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 during the early part of the 20th century. In 1912, he was the Superintendent of the Streets under Mayor J. Edward Barry

J. Edward Barry

J. Edward Barry was mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1911-1914. He graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College, and worked in the railroad business before entering politics. He served on the lower body of City Council from 1900–1902, and he was a member of the Massachusetts House of...

. In 1918, he was the Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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candidate for mayor, and he held office for 12 years. In 1919, he set up a rent and housing committee as a way to give tenants a place to vent their grievances with rent profiteering. Quinn died in 1931.