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 United States senator since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat. Edward Brooke was also the first African-American United States senator ever to have been re-elected to the United States Senate.
Kevin Hagan White was an American politician best known for serving as the mayor of Boston for four terms from 1968 to 1984. He was first elected to the office at the age of 38. He presided as mayor during racially turbulent years in the late 1960s and 1970s,and the start of desegregation of schools via court-ordered busing of school children in Boston. White won the mayoral office in the 1967 general election in a hard-fought campaign opposing the anti-busing and anti-desegregation Boston School Committee member Louise Day Hicks. Earlier he had been elected Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1960 at the age of 31,and he resigned from that office after his election as Mayor.
Peter Francis Tague was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Boston,Massachusetts.
John Francis Parker was an American Republican Party politician from Massachusetts who served as the mayor of Taunton and represented the area in the Massachusetts Senate from 1953 to 1989. He was a leader within the Massachusetts Republican Party,serving as its chair from 1967 to 1969 and leading the minority in the Senate from 1967 to 1989.
Edward J. "Chip" Clancy Jr. was an American politician in the state of Massachusetts who served the 55th mayor of Lynn,Massachusetts. He was first elected in November 2001. Previously,Clancy served on the Lynn City Council. After the council,he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate. In 2001,while still a member of the Massachusetts Senate,Clancy was elected as Mayor of Lynn;after his election as Mayor,Clancy resigned from the Senate. On November 3,2009,he was defeated by challenger Judith Flanagan Kennedy,by a margin of 27 votes.
George Keverian was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 until 1991. In his role in the legislature,he was an advocate for greater openness in leadership,free speech and government reform.
Walter Edward Lawrence was an American politician and city manager who served as a member of Massachusetts House of Representatives and as Mayor of Medford.
John J. Mullen was an American politician who served as Mayor of Everett,Massachusetts from 1917 to 1918.
William G. Reinstein was an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Mayor of Revere,Massachusetts.
Arthur Henry Tobin is an American lawyer and politician from Quincy,Massachusetts who currently serves as clerk magistrate of the Quincy District Court.
C. Gerald Lucey (1913-1989) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Brockton,Massachusetts and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
William B. Bailey was an American politician who served as Registrar of Deeds for the Southern Middlesex District and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
John B. Carr was an American politician who was active in the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He rose from obscurity to win the party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1944. He also served as chairman of the Somerville,Massachusetts,board of assessors.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 8th Hampden 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 the city of Chicopee in Hampden County. Democrat Joseph Wagner of Chicopee has represented the district since 1991.
Elections are currently held every four years to elect the mayor of Springfield,Massachusetts.
Boston City Council election was held on November 3,1981,with preliminary elections on September 21,1981. This election was the final one before the Council transitioned from having 9 members to having 13 members.
Laurence Harold Banks was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and on the Boston City Council. He was the first African-American elected to the Boston City Council.
The 1944 Massachusetts general election was held on November 7,1944,throughout Massachusetts. Primary elections took place on July 11.
S. Lester Ralph was an American clergyman,attorney,and politician who served as mayor of Somerville,Massachusetts from 1970 to 1978 and Middlesex County Commissioner from 1973 to 1981.
Alfred R. Voke was an American politician who served as mayor of Chelsea,Massachusetts and was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
