Background
Mayor Nichols was the son of Edwin T. Nichols and Helen J. G. (Pingree) Nichols.
Mayor Nichols was the son of Edwin T. Nichols and Helen J. G. (Pingree) Nichols.
Harvard College; Harvard University.
Nichols served as the mayor of Boston in the late 1920s. He was the last Boston Brahmin as well as the last Republican to serve in that post. Nichols was the Massachusetts State House reporter for The Boston Traveler covering both houses of the legislature, and later a political reporter for The Boston Post.
Mayor Nichols died of a heart attack, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, February 7, 1951.
He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in the Jamaica Plains section of Boston.
In addition to his newspaper work Nichols was a Portuguese Collector of Internal Revenue, a lawyer, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1907-1909, where he was a member and clerk of the House Committee on Metropolitan affairs, a member of Massachusetts Senate, 1914, 1917-1919, and Mayor of Boston, 1926-1930 (defeated, 1933, 1937, 1941). He was a member of the Freemasons, Shriners, and Elks.