Lawrence is a city located in Essex County,Massachusetts,United States,on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 census,the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north,Andover to the southwest,and North Andover to the east. Lawrence and Salem were the county seats of Essex County,until the Commonwealth abolished county government in 1999. Lawrence is part of the Merrimack Valley.
North Andover is a town in Essex County,Massachusetts,United States. At the 2020 census the population was 30,915.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston,Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital. Among independent teaching hospitals,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center consistently ranks in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually. BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center,the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States,has been located on this site since 1973.
Lois Pines is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and was a candidate for statewide office four times.
The Lahey Hospital &Medical Center,formerly known as the Lahey Clinic,is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine based in Burlington,Massachusetts. The hospital was founded in Boston in 1923 by surgeon Frank H. Lahey,M.D.,and is managed by Beth Israel Lahey Health. U.S. News &World Report has cited it several times on its list of "America's Best Hospitals" in the category of urology.
Barry R. Finegold currently serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Essex and Middlesex district since 2019. He previously served from January 2011 to January 2015. He is a former state representative of the 17th Essex district in Massachusetts. In January 2014,he announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On September 9,2014,Finegold lost in the Democratic primary to Deb Goldberg,who was elected Treasurer in November 2014.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital- Plymouth (BID-Plymouth) is a hospital located in Plymouth,Massachusetts. Founded in 1901,it is today the largest hospital in the Southern region of the South Shore. BID-Plymouth is an acute care,164-bed,non-profit community hospital serving 12 towns in Plymouth and Barnstable counties. It contains more than 30 departments,programs and services,including chiropractic care.
The Senator Patricia McGovern Transportation Center,also known as the McGovern Transportation Center or simply Lawrence station,is a transit station in Lawrence,Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Commuter Rail Haverhill Line and Merrimack Valley Regional Transit Authority local bus service. The station,which opened in 2005,is the latest of seven distinct stations located in Lawrence since 1848;it is located in the city's Gateway District.
Patricia Deats Jehlen is a former teacher and current Massachusetts State Senator of the Democratic Party. She represents the Second Middlesex District. That includes the cities of Cambridge,wards 9 to 11,inclusive,Medford and Somerville,and the town of Winchester,precincts 4 to 7,inclusive,in the County of Middlesex. She has served the Massachusetts State Senate since 2005. She also served the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003. She resides in Somerville,MA.
Susan Tucker was a Massachusetts Democratic State Senator and State Representative from Andover. She served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1982 to 1992 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1999 to 2011.
The Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Merrimack is one of the larger waterways in New England and has helped to define the livelihood and culture of those living along it for millennia.
Herbert Parsons Gleason was an American attorney who served as Boston's chief legal counsel under Mayor Kevin White.
Barbara A. L'Italien is an American politician from the state of Massachusetts,serving from January 2015 to 2019 as the State Senator from the 2nd Essex and Middlesex District. She was previously the director of government affairs for the Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts,Steve Grossman. From 2003 to January 2011 she was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the 18th Essex District.
Katherine Marlea Clark is an American lawyer and politician who has served as House Minority Whip since 2023 and the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district since 2013. She previously served as Assistant Speaker from 2021 to 2023 and Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2019 to 2021. Clark was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011 and the Massachusetts Senate from 2011 to 2013.
Jack H. Backman was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate.
William Maurice “Mo”Cowan is an American lawyer who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from February 1,2013,to July 15,2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as legal counsel and chief of staff to Governor Deval Patrick. Patrick appointed him on an interim basis to fill the vacancy left by fellow Democrat John Kerry,who resigned to become U.S. Secretary of State.
Mitchell T. Rabkin is an American physician and Distinguished Institute Scholar at the Shapiro Institute,Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and CEO Emeritus at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Lawrence General Hospital is a private non-profit hospital with 189 beds in Lawrence,Massachusetts. It is affiliated with Tufts Children's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital.
Cindy F. Friedman is an American politician currently serving as a state senator representing the 4th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate. Friedman's district comprises Arlington,Billerica,Burlington,Lexington,and Woburn. She has been serving since 2017. Prior to becoming a state senator,Friedman worked as a public school teacher and as a senior manager in the high-tech industry and later served for nearly a decade as chief of staff to the late state Senator Ken Donnelly. During her first term,Friedman served as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Mental Health,Substance Use and Recovery. For the 191st General Court,Friedman serves as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and is vice chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
