The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university in Boston,Massachusetts,United States. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public land-grant research university in Amherst,Massachusetts. It is the oldest,largest,and flagship campus in the University of Massachusetts system,and was founded in 1863 as an agricultural college. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium,along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley.
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses,a satellite campus in Springfield and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global.
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.
Endicott Howard Peabody was an American politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat,he served a single two-year term as the 62nd Governor of Massachusetts,from 1963 to 1965. His tenure is probably best known for his categorical opposition to the death penalty and for signing into law the bill establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston. After losing the 1964 Democratic gubernatorial primary,Peabody made several more failed bids for office in Massachusetts and New Hampshire,including failed campaigns for the U.S. Senate in 1966 and 1986.
Robert Fiske Bradford was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as the 57th Governor of Massachusetts,from 1947 to 1949.
William Barrett Washburn was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. Washburn served several terms in the United States House of Representatives (1863–71) and as the 28th governor of Massachusetts from 1872 to 1874,when he won election to the United States Senate in a special election to succeed the recently deceased Charles Sumner. A moderate Republican,Washburn only partially supported the Radical Republican agenda during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed.
Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician,civil rights lawyer,author,and businessman who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was first elected in 2006,succeeding Mitt Romney,who chose not to run for reelection to focus on his 2008 presidential campaign. He was reelected in 2010. He was the first African-American Governor of Massachusetts and the first Democratic Governor of the state in 16 years 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.
Silvio Ottavio Conte was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for 16 terms,representing the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts from January 3,1959,until his death in Bethesda,Maryland in 1991. He strongly supported legislation to protect the environment,as well as federal funding of medical and scientific research.
John Frederick Collins was an American lawyer who served as the mayor of Boston from 1960 to 1968. Collins was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1947 to 1955. He and his children caught polio during a 1955 outbreak. He was reliant on a wheelchair and crutches the rest of his life. After partially recovering,he ran for mayor in 1959 as an underdog. He successfully portrayed himself as outside corrupt "machine politics" and was elected.
Columbia Point,in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston,Massachusetts sits on a peninsula jutting out from the mainland of eastern Dorchester into the bay. Old Harbor Park is on the north side,adjacent to Old Harbor,part of Dorchester Bay. The peninsula is primarily occupied by Harbor Point,the University of Massachusetts Boston,the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate,and a complex at the former Bayside Expo Center,Boston College High School,and the Massachusetts Archives. The Boston Harborwalk follows the entire coastline.
The Armory of the First Corps of Cadets is a historic armory at 97–105 Arlington Street and 130 Columbus Avenue in Boston,Massachusetts. Over the years it has been known as Park Plaza Castle,Castle at Park Plaza, and The Tower.
Warren Eugene Tolman is an American politician who has served as a member of both houses of the Massachusetts General Court. He was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1998,and was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002,and Massachusetts Attorney General in 2014.
Maurice A. Donahue was an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1964 to 1971.
Natalie M. Higgins is an American politician serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Natalie is a lifelong Leominster resident,Boston-educated attorney,and former non-profit director and rape crisis counselor.
The 162nd Massachusetts General Court,consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives,met in 1961 and 1962 during the governorship of John Volpe. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House. In 1962,the General Court expanded the University of Massachusetts outside of the Amherst campus with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
Massachusetts has several forms of direct democracy,allowing for initiative and referendums at the state level and in many municipalities. The recall of public officials is also provided for in many municipalities.
The 163rd Massachusetts General Court,consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives,met in 1963 and 1964 during the governorship of Endicott Peabody. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.
The 171st Massachusetts General Court,consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives,met in 1979 and 1980 during the governorship of Edward J. King. William Bulger served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House. In 1980,the General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state.
George Vincent Kenneally Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and was legal counsel to the Massachusetts Senate.
