Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2010 census,the total population was 743,159,making it the third-most populous county in the state,and eightieth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area. The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. The county was named after the English county of Essex.
Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect,and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession.
The Crowninshield family is an American family that has been prominent in seafaring,political and military leadership,and the literary world. The founder of the American family emigrated from what is now Germany in the 17th century. The family is one of several known collectively as Boston Brahmins.
Bailey Bartlett was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Moses Tyler Stevens was an American textile manufacturer and a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Jane Ring Frank is a female American Choral Conductor who leads music publisher E.C. Schirmer's Philovox Recording Chorus. She founded the Boston Secession,which is a professional chorus,in 1996,and was the Artistic Director until they disbanded in 2009. She was named Music Director of the Cantemus Chamber Chorus in 2011.
Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779–1846) was a Salem,Massachusetts,merchant who built one of the great Salem trading firms during the seaport's ascendancy as a trading power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pickman was a partner in the firm Devereux,Pickman &Silsbee and a state senator. Among the wealthiest Salem merchants of his day,Pickman used his own clipper ships to trade with the Far East in an array of goods ranging from indigo and coffee to pepper and spices,and was one of the state's earliest financiers,backing everything from cotton and woolen mills to railroads to water-generated power plants. Pickman also helped found what is today's Peabody Essex Museum.
Peter Forman is president and CEO of the South Shore (MA) Chamber of Commerce. He was formerly an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,Sheriff of Plymouth County,Massachusetts,and as a member of the Paul Celucci and Jane M. Swift administrations.
Byron J. Matthews is an American politician who served as Mayor of Newburyport,Massachusetts from 1968 to 1978 and Massachusetts Secretary of Communities and Development from 1979 to 1983.
The 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts was held on June 25,2013,in order to fill the Massachusetts Class 2 United States Senate seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3,2015.
Timothy A. Bassett is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Clifford Holmes Marshall was an American politician who served as a State Representative and Sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
Frederick Robinson served as sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts,and as the President of the Massachusetts Senate.
William Joseph Casey was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth,or "MassINC," is registered as a non-profit 501(c) organization that functions as a nonpartisan,evidence-based think tank. Its mission is to develop a public agenda for Massachusetts that promotes the growth and vitality of the middle class. Its governing philosophy is rooted in the ideals embodied in the American Dream:equality of opportunity,personal responsibility,and a strong commonwealth. Their mission is to promote a public agenda for the middle class and to help all citizens achieve the American dream.
David A. Lowy is an American attorney,academic and jurist serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Charles H. Reardon is a former American penal official who served as sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts from 1978 to 1996.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Essex County. Republican James Kelcourse of Amesbury has represented the district since 2015. Candidates for this district seat in the 2020 Massachusetts general election include Amber Hewett.
Dewey H. Perry was an American law enforcement officer from Vermont. He was most notable for his service as United States Marshal for the District of Vermont from 1954 to 1961.
John P. McGonigle was an American corrections officer and politician who served as Sheriff of Middlesex County,Massachusetts from 1985 to 1994. He was convicted of tax evasion and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering for demanding kickbacks from two of his deputies.
