Sheehy served on the Board of Selectmen for 27 years as a regular selectman. Southbury has a six-member Board of Selectmen, including First Selectman, Jeff Manville (R). Erler was a former Raymond town selectman and state legislator. He served in local government as a justice of the peace, constable, and selectman. Hopkinton Town Selectman Brian Herr was the Republican nominee. In 1766, a town meeting of Braintree elected Adams as a selectman. Rice was elected a selectman at Marlborough in 1657. He was a selectman of Reading and was appointed a judicial commissioner. He became a town selectman and deputy to the General Court. The current Chief of Police is Jim Heavey while the First Selectman is Police Commissioner. The Democratic nominee was former selectman from Greenwich Ned Lamont. In 2019, he did not seek reelection for First Selectman. He defeated Republican Hopkinton selectman Brian Herr with 62 percent of the vote. In 1753 Cushing entered politics, winning election as a Boston selectman. The seat is held by Democrat Sarah Peake, a former Provincetown selectman.