The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States. Established in 1861,MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.
The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public US-based research university. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.
Boston College (BC) is a private Catholic Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill,Massachusetts,United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus,the university has more than 15,000 total students.
Edward William Brooke III was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. A member of the Republican Party,he was the first African American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote. Prior to serving in the Senate,he served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1963 until 1967. Edward Brooke was the first African-American since Reconstruction in 1874 to have been elected to the United States Senate and he was the first African-American since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat. Brooke was also the first African-American U.S. senator to ever be re-elected.
James Patrick McGovern is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997,representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A Democrat,he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee,chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China,and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. His district,numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013,stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.
Martin Thomas Meehan is an American academic administrator,politician,and attorney. Since July 2015,Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
James Michael Curley was an American Democratic politician from Boston,Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Boston from 1914 to 1955. Curley ran for mayor in every election for which he was legally qualified. He was twice convicted of criminal behavior and notably served time in prison during his last term as mayor. He also served a single term as governor of Massachusetts. He is remembered as one of the most colorful figures in Massachusetts politics.
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.
Jane Maria Swift is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served as the 69th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1999 to 2003 and,concurrently,as acting governor from April 2001 to January 2003. She was the first woman to perform the duties of governor of Massachusetts. At the time she became acting governor,Swift was 36 years old,making her the youngest female governor in U.S. history.
Elaine Noble is an American politician and LGBT activist who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms starting in January 1975. She was the first openly lesbian or gay candidate elected to a state legislature. She served two terms as representative for the Fenway-Kenmore and Back Bay neighborhoods of Boston.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor,Menino was a member of the Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
Elizabeth A. "Liz" Malia is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Democrat,she served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from March 1998 to January 2023. She represented the Eleventh Suffolk district,which includes parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain,Roslindale,Roxbury and Dorchester.
Farah Pandith is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries. After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry,she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve –she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State. When she left in 2014,she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 census,making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023,making it the largest in the New England division and the eleventh-largest in the country.
Maureen E. Feeney is an American politician who served on the Boston City Council and was the City Clerk of Boston,Massachusetts.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022. Prior to this,Kennedy served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented a district that extends from Boston's western suburbs to the state's South Coast. He worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County,Massachusetts,offices before his election to Congress. In January 2021,he became a CNN commentator.
Samuel Gebru is an Ethiopian American activist and professor at Tufts University.
Dylan A. Fernandes is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Martha's Vineyard,the Elizabeth Islands,four precincts of Falmouth,and Nantucket. Serving since 2017,he is a member of the Democratic Party.
Nika C. Elugardo is an American attorney and politician. She served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Boston and Brookline for two terms from 2019 to 2023.
Estela Reyes is an American politician who is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 4th Essex district. Elected in November 2022,assumed office on January 4,2023.
