Harold Putnam (born February 15, 1916) [1] was a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Needham, Massachusetts, representing the 6th Norfolk District. [1] He was born in Boston and educated at Boston Latin School and Dartmouth College and worked as a journalist. [1] He was a member of the Massachusetts House from 1949 to at least 1954. [1] He was married to, and then divorced from, Glendora Putnam. [2]
Christian Archibald Herter was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61.
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music."
The Boston Brahmins, or Boston elite, are members of Boston's historic upper class. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, they were often associated with a cultivated New England accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional British-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
James Anthony Burke was a United States Representative from Massachusetts from 1959 to 1979.
Robert F. Murphy was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1949 Murphy became the first Democrat to serve as the Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Murphy also served as the 59th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from January 1957 to October 6, 1960, when he was appointed by political foe Foster Furcolo to take over the scandal-ridden Metropolitan District Commission. Murphy was the son of Franklin E. Murphy, a telegrapher from Danvers, Massachusetts. Robert's mother, Alice Murphy, worked as a milliner in Boston.
Belden Gerald Bly Jr. was an American teacher and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for 16 terms from 1949 to 1980, representing Saugus, Massachusetts.
Frank S. Giles Jr. was a politician who was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Public Safety Commissioner.
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1947–1953 and Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts from 1954–1959.
Richard Fowle Treadway was an American businessman and politician who served as President of Treadway Inns Corp., was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1953 to 1955, and served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee from 1969 to 1971.
James William Hennigan Jr. was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1955 to 1965.
Sidney Quinn Curtiss was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1949 to 1979.
Cornelius Francis Kiernan was an American politician and judge who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a special justice in the Somerville and Lowell District Courts.
David B. Williams was an American jurist and politician who served as presiding judge of Ayer District Court and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Governor's Council.
Harold Tompkins was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1943 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1954.
Charles John Innes was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court and was the legal counsel to the Massachusetts Senate.
Michael J. McCarthy was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Massachusetts Commissioner of Veterans' Services.
William F. Carr was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Boston School Committee.
Francis Appleton Harding was an American politician in Massachusetts. He represented Dedham in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1947 to 1955.
Glendora McIlwain Putnam was a civil rights activist and the first African American female to serve as the Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts.
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