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Edward Joseph King was an American politician who served as the 66th Governor of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party until 1985,he then became a member of the Republican Party. Elected in the 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election,he lost the Democratic primary of the 1982 election to his predecessor Michael Dukakis.
John Foster Furcolo was an American lawyer,writer,and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor,and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state,and an active promoter of community colleges.
Paul Andrew Dever was an American Democratic politician from Boston,Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts and was its youngest-ever Attorney General. Among his notable accomplishments was the construction of Boston’s circumferential highway Route 128,then called "Dever’s Folley," which was later expanded to Interstate 95,one of the most used national highways.
Aquarium station is an underground rapid transit station on the MBTA Blue Line in Boston,Massachusetts,United States. It is located under State Street at Atlantic Avenue on the eastern edge of Boston's Financial District near Boston Harbor. The station is named for the nearby New England Aquarium. It is adjacent to Long Wharf,which is used by two MBTA Boat lines. The station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Blue Line;an arched ceiling runs the length of the platform level. With the platforms 50 feet (15 m) below street level,it is the second-deepest station on the MBTA system.
Peter Francis Tague was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Boston,Massachusetts.
Michael Joseph "Mike" Harrington is an American politician,lawyer and a former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Charles Forest Nelson Pratt was a Republican politician from Saugus,Massachusetts.
Charles Gibbons was a U.S. politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955 as a Republican. As of 2022,he was the last Republican to serve as Speaker of the Massachusetts House.
Clarence Sayward Wilkinson was an American politician who served as Mayor of Beverly,Massachusetts,from 1951 to 1957,State Representative from 1957 to 1961,Town Manager of Saugus from 1968 to 1970,and Town Manager of Boothbay Harbor,Maine,from 1970 to 1975.
The Crawford House was a hotel and restaurant in downtown Boston,Massachusetts. Located on Court and Brattle Streets in Scollay Square,it was in operation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,and was for a time among the leading hotels in the city. The building was demolished in 1962 as part of the Government Center project.
Stephen W. Doran is an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995. He later worked as a bank executive and math tutor. In 2014 he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and served 3 years in prison;he was scheduled to finish his sentence in 2017.
Cornelius Francis Kiernan was an American politician and judge who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a special justice in the Somerville and Lowell District Courts.
C. Henry Glovsky was an American attorney and politician from Beverly,Massachusetts,who served in the Massachusetts General Court. He also played a role in the founding of the North Shore Music Theatre and Montserrat College of Art.
Russell P. Brown was an American banker and politician who served a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of Beverly Cooperative Bank.
Allison G. Catheron was a Canadian-born American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
James A. Torrey was a Canadian-born American politician who served as Mayor of Beverly,Massachusetts,and as a member of the Massachusetts General Court.
Theodore A. Glynn was an American politician who served as clerk of the Roxbury District Court and commissioner of the Boston Fire Department. He was a candidate for mayor of Boston in 1925.
Russell Abner Wood was an American politician who was a Perennial candidate for statewide office in Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts State Auditor from 1939 to 1941.
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The Beverly rooming house fire took place at the Elliott Chambers,a low-rent rooming house in Beverly,Massachusetts,on July 4,1984. The fire was set by a man whose ex-girlfriend was going out with someone who was staying in the building. It was the deadliest arson fire in Massachusetts,the deadliest fire in the state since the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942,and the deadliest fire in Beverly's history.