Edward William Brooke III was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. A member of the Republican Party,he was the first African American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote. Prior to serving in the Senate,he served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1963 until 1967. Edward Brooke was the first African-American since Reconstruction in 1874 to have been elected to the United States Senate and he was the first African-American since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat. Brooke was also the first African-American U.S. senator to ever be re-elected.
Patrick Joseph Kennedy was an American businessman and politician from Boston,Massachusetts. He and his wife Mary were the parents of four children,including future U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Their grandchildren through Joseph include U.S. President John F. Kennedy,U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy,and longtime U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
Stephen Francis Lynch is an American businessman,attorney and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. A Democrat,he represents Massachusetts's 8th congressional district,which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer,and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court.
Thomas Cushing III was an American lawyer,merchant,and statesman from Boston,Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics,he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution in 1774,serving as the lower house's speaker for most of those years. Because of his role as speaker,his signature was affixed to many documents protesting British policies,leading officials in London to consider him a dangerous radical. He engaged in extended communications with Benjamin Franklin who at times lobbied on behalf of the legislature's interests in London,seeking ways to reduce the rising tensions of the American Revolution.
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.
John Newton Ford,is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate and a member of Tennessee's most prominent African-American political family. He is the older brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford,Sr. and the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford,Jr.
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010,having been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. From 1985 to 1989,he chaired the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Robert Edward Travaglini is an American politician and lobbyist. From 2003 to 2007,Travaglini served as President of the Massachusetts Senate. He represented the first Middlesex and Suffolk senate district,encompassing portions of Boston,Cambridge,Revere,and Winthrop.
Therese Murray is an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 2007 to 2015. Murray,a Democrat,was the first woman to lead a house of the Massachusetts General Court. She represented the Plymouth and Barnstable district in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 to 2015.
Stanley C. Rosenberg is an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from January 2015 until December 2017. Rosenberg was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1986 and served as the representative for Amherst and Pelham until 1991 when he won a special election for the State Senate seat being vacated by Congressman John Olver. A Democrat,Rosenberg resigned from the Senate on May 4,2018,amidst a sexual harassment scandal involving his husband,Bryon Hefner.
Brian Paul Lees is a Massachusetts politician,who served as the Clerk of Courts for Hampden County. Until 2007,he had been the State Senator from the First Hampden and Hampshire District and the Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General and was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
James Bradley Eldridge is an American politician and lawyer. He serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Middlesex and Worcester District. Eldridge previously served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,where he sat on the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business,the Joint Committee on Election Laws,and the Joint Committee on Public Service.
Anthony D. Galluccio is a former American Massachusetts State Senator,and a Democratic politician having won the seat vacated by Jarrett T. Barrios. He is a graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School,Providence College,and Suffolk Law School.
Sal N. DiDomenico is an American state legislator who has served in the Massachusetts Senate since May 2010 and as Assistant Majority Leader since 2018. He is a Democrat representing the Middlesex and Suffolk district,which includes his hometown of Everett as well as Chelsea,Charlestown,and parts of Cambridge. In 2010,he won a special election to succeed the retiring Anthony D. Galluccio. Before that,he spent three years as Gallucio's chief of staff. From 2004 to 2010 he was a member of the Everett City Council.
William N. Brownsberger is an American politician and the President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Suffolk and Middlesex District which includes his hometown of Belmont,as well as Watertown,the Boston neighborhoods Allston and Brighton,part of Boston's Fenway-Kenmore area,and part of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2012,he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2013 special election to succeed Ed Markey in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Michael Daniels Brady is an American politician from Brockton,Massachusetts,who serves as the state legislator in the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Plymouth &Norfolk District,which covers Brockton,East Bridgewater,Halifax,Hanson and Whitman in the county of Plymouth;portions of Randolph and Avon in the county of Norfolk. He is a Brockton resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
Eric Philip Lesser is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts State Senate. Before representing his hometown of Longmeadow,Massachusetts,and neighboring communities in the Greater-Springfield area,he worked as a White House aide during the Obama administration. Lesser is one of the originators of the White House Passover Seder. In the 2022 Massachusetts race for Lieutenant Governor,Lesser lost the Democratic primary to Kim Driscoll.
Charles Abner Phelps was an American medical doctor,diplomat,and politician,who served as a member,and the Speaker,of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,and as a member and the President of the Massachusetts Senate.
Joseph A. Boncore is an American lawyer from Winthrop,Massachusetts,who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2016 from the First Suffolk and Middlesex District. He resigned in September 2021 to become CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
