Robert Treat Paine was a lawyer,politician and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,the state's highest court.
Marcus Morton was an American lawyer,jurist,and politician from Taunton,Massachusetts. He served two terms as the governor of Massachusetts and several months as Acting Governor following the death in 1825 of William Eustis. He served for 15 years as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court,all the while running unsuccessfully as a Democrat for governor. He finally won the 1839 election,acquiring exactly the number of votes required for a majority win over Edward Everett. After losing the 1840 and 1841 elections,he was elected in a narrow victory in 1842.
Thomas Paul Salmon is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 75th governor of Vermont from 1973 to 1977.
George Leonard was an American lawyer,jurist,and politician from Norton,Massachusetts. Besides service on state court benches and in both houses of the state legislature,he represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Finis James Garrett was a United States representative from Tennessee,serving as the House Minority Leader for the Democratic Party,and a Chief Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
David Cobb was a Massachusetts physician,military officer,jurist,and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts's at-large congressional seat.
Bruce E. Tarr is an American politician who serves as a Republican member and Minority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate. Since 1995 he has represented the 1st Essex and Middlesex District. He is a member of the United States Republican Party and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
John Francis Parker was an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts who served as the mayor of Taunton and represented the area in the Massachusetts Senate from 1953 to 1989. He was a leader within the Massachusetts Republican Party,serving as its chair from 1967 to 1969 and leading the minority in the Senate from 1967 to 1989.
Joseph Charles,Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician.
Pliny T. Merrick was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts. He served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Joseph Everett Warner was a U.S. politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1919 to 1920,as the Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1928 to 1935,and as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1940 until his death in 1958.
Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. is an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court and as the Mayor of Taunton,Massachusetts.
Steven D. Pierce is a retired Massachusetts jurist and politician who most recently served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Housing Court. He retired from the Housing Court September 2015.
David Paul Linsky is an American lawyer and politician who currently represents the 5th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
William Henry Fox was a Massachusetts lawyer,jurist,and politician who served as the fourth Mayor of Taunton,Massachusetts,and as the Presiding Justice of the First Bristol District Court.
Antone S. Aguiar Jr. was an American judge and politician. He spent 18 years as a judge in the Attleboro District Court and two in the Fall River District Court before retiring in late 1999. He previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1965 until 1982,when he was appointed to the bench by Governor Edward King. He was a Democrat who spent much of his life in Swansea,Massachusetts,where he graduated from Joseph Case High School in 1948.
David Matos Simas is an American lawyer,former government official,and a former politician. He was the President of the Obama Foundation from 2021 to 2023,having previously served as its CEO from 2016 to 2021 and served in Barack Obama's administration as the White House Director of Political Affairs from 2014 to 2016.
Christine F. Chandler is an American politician,lawyer,and former judge serving as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 43rd district.
Carol A. Doherty is an American educator and politician serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 3rd Bristol district. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and five terms on the Taunton School Committee.
