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 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.
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.
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.
Marc R. Pacheco is an American state legislator serving in the Massachusetts Senate. He represents the 1st Plymouth and Bristol district,which includes his hometown of Taunton and nearby towns. He is a Democrat who has served since 1993. From 1989 to 1992 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature he was a member of the Taunton school committee (1980–89) and the Chief Assistant to the Mayor of Taunton (1982–88).
Terence M. "Terry" Dempsey is an American politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented the old House districts 23A and 28B,which included all or portions of Brown,Cottonwood,Nicollet and Redwood counties in the south central part of the state. A Republican,he was an attorney and partner in the New Ulm law firm of Somsen,Dempsey and Schade. Later,he served as a Minnesota district court judge. His brother Jerry Dempsey also served in the Minnesota Legislature.
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 who is also the Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 3rd Bristol district. She was elected on June 2,2020,in a special election against Republican Kelly Dooner to replace former Representative Shaunna O'Connell,who resigned to become Mayor of Taunton in January. She also serves on the Taunton School Committee and Downtown Taunton Foundation Board.
