selectman

noun

1. (US)Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.

   “Near-synonyms: selectperson, selectwoman, councilperson, councilman, councilwoman”

   “Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.”

   “The New England […] town had its own government: a group of selectmen elected by the adult male members of the church. The selectmen acted as a plural executive, while the town’s eligible voters gathered for town meetings and functioned as a miniature parliament.”