{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name ='''Austin Belknap''' | image =Austin Belknap.png | caption = | office =3rd<br>Mayor of<br>Somerville, Massachusetts<ref name="Somerville191-192">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| pages = 191–192 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | term_start =January 3, 1876 | term_end =January, 1878 | predecessor =William H. Furber<ref name="Somerville191">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| page = 191 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | successor =George A. Bruce<ref name="Somerville192">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| page = 192 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | office2 =Chairman of the<br>Somerville Massachusetts<br>Board of Selectmen<ref name="Somerville180">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| page = 180 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | term_start2 =1870 | term_end2 =January 2, 1872 | predecessor2 =Frances Houghton<ref name="Somerville179">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| page = 179 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | successor2 =George O. Brastow, Mayoralty; Selectmen's Office Abolished | office3 =Member of the<br>Somerville Massachusetts<br>Board of Selectmen<ref name="Somerville179-180">{{Citation |last=City of Somerville, Massachusetts| title = Municipal Manual of the City of Somerville, Massachusetts: published in the Year 1901| pages = 179–180 | publisher = City of Somerville, Massachusetts | location = Somerville, MA | year = 1901}}</ref> | term_start3 =1869<ref name="Somerville179-180"/> | term_end3 =January 2, 1872<ref name="Somerville180"/><ref name="Somerville179-180"/> | predecessor3 =New position<br>Board of Selectmen expanded from five to nine members.<ref name="Somerville179"/> | successor3 =George O. Brastow, Mayoralty; Selectmen's office abolished | office4 =Member of the<br>Somerville Massachusetts<br>School Committee<ref name="SAmKimbp493"/> | term_start4 =1862<ref name="SAmKimbp493"/> | term_end4 =1864<ref name="SAmKimbp493"/> | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | birth_date =July 18, 1819<ref name="SHisSoVIIp100">{{Citation |last =Somerville Historical Society| title = Historic leaves, Volume II, No. 4;January, 1904|page =100 | publisher = The Somerville Historical Society | location = Somerville, MA | date =January 1904}}</ref> | birth_place =Westboro, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref name="SHisSoVIIp100"/> | death_date =December 9, 1902<ref name="SHisSoVIIp100"/> | death_place =Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref name="SHisSoVIIp100"/> | party = | spouse =Jane P. Brigham<ref name="SHisSoVIIno.4p101">{{Citation |last =Somerville Historical Society| title = Historic leaves, Volume II, No. 4;January, 1904|page =101 | publisher = The Somerville Historical Society | location = Somerville, MA | date =January 1904}}</ref> | relations = | children =Robert W. Belknap<ref name="SHisSoVIIno.4p101"/> | alma_mater =Worcester Manual Labor High School<ref name="SAmKimbp493"/> | occupation = | profession =Civil engineer, engaged in Railway construction until 1843;<br>Produce business from 1843 to December 1902<ref name="SHisSoVIIp100"/> | signature = |website = | footnotes = }}
'''Austin Belknap''' (July 18, 1819 – December 9, 1902) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served as a member, and last Chairman, of the Board of Selectmen of Somerville, Massachusetts, and as the third Mayor, of Somerville.
==Early life== Belknap was born July 18, 1819, in Westboro, Massachusetts, to John and Ruth (Fay) Belknap of Westboro.<ref name="SAmKimbp493">{{Citation |last =Samuels |first= Edward A.| year =1897 | title = Somerville, Past and Present|page =493 | publisher = Samuels and Kimball | location = Boston, MA }}</ref>
==Notes== <references/> {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before=Frances Houghton | title=Chairman of the<br>Somerville, Massachusetts<br>Board of Selectmen | years=1870-January 2, 1872 | after=Office abolished }} {{succession box | before=William H. Furber | title=Mayor of<br>Somerville, Massachusetts | years=January, 1876-January, 1878 | after=George A. Bruce }} {{s-end}}
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