Francis Duehay

Francis H. Duehay
Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Personal details
Born	July 1933 Washington, DC
Died	November 20, 2020 Boston, MA
Alma mater	Harvard
Nickname	Frank

Francis Harvey "Frank" Duehay was a three-time mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts and was most lately the chair of the board of trustees for the Cambridge Health Alliance. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in English in 1955, a master's degree in the Teaching of English from Harvard University in 1958, and an EdD in Educational Administration from Harvard in 1968. ^{[1] [2]}

Early life and career

Born in Washington, D.C., in late July 1933, the son of Francis Duehay and Olive Dennett, Duehay lived in Belmont and Acton before moving to Cambridge at age 8, where he grew up mostly in West Cambridge with his mother, an administrator at the First Parish in Cambridge, and his stepfather, Moncure Burke Berg, a patent attorney. ^[3]

Duehay "served in the U.S. Navy from 1955–1957, taught English at Belmont Senior High School in Belmont, Massachusetts from 1958–1959, and occupied several different positions at Harvard University from 1959–1964, including Acting Director of Admissions in the Graduate School of Education 1962–1963, and Assistant Dean in the Graduate School of Education 1964-1964." ^[2]

Duehay was a member of the Cambridge School Committee from 1964 to 1972. He served on the Cambridge City Council, including terms as mayor in 1980–81, 1985, and finally in 1998–99. ^[4]

He married Jane Kenworthy Lewis in 1991. She is his only surviving immediate family member, and had retired in 2013 as assistant clerk for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. ^[3]

Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Danehy	Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1980–1981	Succeeded by Alfred Vellucci
Preceded by Leonard Russell	Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1985	Succeeded by Walter Sullivan
Preceded by Sheila Russell	Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1998–1999	Succeeded by Anthony Galluccio

Death

Frank Duehay died in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of acute leukemia on November 20, 2020, aged 87. He had moved a few years before with his wife, Jane Kenworthy Lewis, from the Cambridge house where he grew up to the Brookhaven at Lexington retirement community. ^[5]

References

1. "Harvard Magazine". Archived from the original on October 30, 2006. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
2. The Francis H. Duehay Collection Cambridge Room Cambridge Public Library
3. Boston Globe obituary article
4. Cambridge Honors Duehay for 36 Years of Service
5. Marquard, Bryan (November 21, 2020). "'Mr. Cambridge': Frank Duehay, a former three-time mayor, dies at 87". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved November 22, 2020.