Selectman

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town.

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.