Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history,after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election,losing to the Republican nominee,Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Raymond Leo Flynn is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,Massachusetts,from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993 to 1997.
Edward Joseph King was an American politician who served as the 66th Governor of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party until 1985,he then became a member of the Republican Party. Elected in the 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election,he lost the Democratic primary of the 1982 election to his predecessor Michael Dukakis.
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the port authority for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It owns and operates three airports,Logan International Airport,Hanscom Field,and Worcester Regional Airport,and public terminals in the Port of Boston.
Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was the first African-American Governor of Massachusetts and the first Democratic governor of the state since Michael Dukakis left office in 1991. Patrick served from 1994 to 1997 as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Mark Daniel Gearan is an American lawyer and the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva,New York. He previously served as a director at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics from 1995 to 1999 and as the director of the Peace Corps. He is the longest-serving president in the history of HWS,serving from 1999 to 2017. Gearan returned to the position in 2022.
Evelyn Murphy is an American businesswoman and politician who was the 67th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991,being the first woman in the history of the state to hold a constitutional office. She is now the president of The WAGE Project,a United States nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating wage discrimination against women;a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University,and a corporate director.
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 2009 to 2010,having been appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. From 1985 to 1989,he chaired the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The 1990 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1990. Incumbent Democratic governor Michael Dukakis,his party's nominee for president in 1988,opted to not seek a fourth term. Republican Bill Weld won the open seat,beating Democrat John Silber to become the first Republican governor of Massachusetts elected since 1970. This election was the first open-seat gubernatorial election in Massachusetts since 1960.
The 1986 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4,1986. Michael Dukakis was elected Governor of Massachusetts for a third term. He defeated Republican George Kariotis by a 69–31% margin. This was the last time a Democrat was elected governor of Massachusetts until 2006.
The 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 7,1978. Former Massachusetts Port Authority executive director Edward J. King was elected to a four-year term,from January 4,1979,until January 6,1983. King won the Democratic nomination by defeating incumbent governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis in the Democratic primary.
David J. Lucey was an American football player and coach and a civil servant who served as Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles from 1972-1974.
Barry Myles Locke was an American politician,who served as Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation from 1979 until he was indicted for corruption in 1981.
William Irvin Cowin was an American jurist,politician,and state cabinet secretary who served as Massachusetts Secretary of Consumer Affairs from 1971 to 1972 and Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance from 1972 to 1974. He was a candidate for State Attorney General in 1974 and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1978.
Paul Sagan is an American businessman and managing partner at General Catalyst Partners. A three-time Emmy award winner for broadcast journalism in New York,Sagan began his career at WCBS-TV as a news writer and news director. Joining Time Warner to design and launch NY1,in 1995 he was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc. Sagan joined Akamai Technologies in 1998,becoming CEO in 2005. In 2014,he became a venture capitalist at General Catalyst Partners. He became chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2015.
Alan David Sisitsky was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate.
The New England Council is a regional business association representing both public and private organizations in the New England region of the United States. Established in 1925,it is the oldest regional business association in the United States.
Thomas P. Glynn III is a senior official at Harvard University overseeing the Harvard Allston Land Company,a new entity to develop commercial real estate in the Allston land owned by Harvard. He is the former chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority,former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and United States Deputy Secretary of Labor. From May 2023 to October 2024,he served as chair of the MBTA's board of directors.
Gerard Thomas Indelicato is an American academic administrator who served as education advisor to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and president of Bridgewater State College. He was convicted on federal and state conspiracy,fraud,and tax evasion charges.
Alan A. Mackey was an American academic and political figure who served as Massachusetts registrar of motor vehicles from 1977 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1987.
