Roger Williams was an English-born American Puritan minister,theologian,and author who founded Providence Plantations,which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the U.S. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,now the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state,and fair dealings with Native Americans.
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County,Massachusetts,in the United States,and part of the Boston metropolitan area. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods:Brighton,Allston,Fenway–Kenmore,Mission Hill,Jamaica Plain,and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline. Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston,known as Muddy River;it was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
Roger Sherman was an American statesman,lawyer,and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign four of the great state papers of the United States related to the founding:the Continental Association,Declaration of Independence,Articles of Confederation,and U.S. Constitution. He also signed the 1774 Petition to the King.
George Frisbie Hoar was an American attorney and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1877 to 1904. He belonged to an extended family that became politically prominent in 18th- and 19th-century New England.
Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts,United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester and the towns of Essex,Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport.
Roger Wolcott was a Republican lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897,becoming Acting Governor in 1896 upon the death of Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge. He was elected governor in his own right in 1897,serving until 1900. He was a leading figure in the Young Republican Club,which revitalized the Massachusetts Republican Party in the 1890s.
Roger Williams University (RWU) is a private university in Bristol,Rhode Island. Founded in 1956,it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams. The school enrolls over 5,000 students and employs over 480 academic staff.
Roger Edward Broggie was an American mechanical engineer who worked with Walt Disney and the Walt Disney Company. He is considered the first Disney Imagineer.
Sherman Hoar,was an American lawyer,member of Congress representing Massachusetts,and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts. As a young man he acted as model for the head of the John Harvard statue now in the Harvard Yard.
Rockwood Hoar was a Representative from Massachusetts,the son of Massachusetts US Senator George Frisbie Hoar.
George Lusztig is an American-Romanian mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is chaired by Gus Bickford. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling all nine of Massachusetts' U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. The only statewide offices that the party does not control are the governorship and the lieutenant governorship,which are currently held by Republicans Charlie Baker and Karyn Polito respectively.
Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served as Massachusetts Attorney General and was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge was established in 1997 to conserve,protect and enhance the abundance and diversity of native plant,fish and wildlife species and the ecosystems on which they depend throughout the 7,200,000-acre (29,000 km2) Connecticut River watershed. The watershed covers large areas of Vermont,New Hampshire,Massachusetts and Connecticut. It contains a great diversity of habitats,notably:northern forest valuable as nesting habitat for migrant thrushes,warblers and other birds;rivers and streams used by shad,salmon,herring,the endangered shortnose sturgeon and other migratory fishes;and an internationally significant complex of high-quality tidal fresh,brackish and salt marshes.
Frank Joseph Donahue was an American politician who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth,Chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee,and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Roger L. Putnam Vocational Technical Academy is an American vocational high school located in Springfield,Massachusetts,next to the Springfield High School of Science and Technology. Led by principal George Johnson and operating under the authority of the Springfield School Committee,Putnam Vocational provides academic and vocational instruction to students in grades nine through twelve throughout the Springfield area. The school is receiving Title I funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Leslie Bradley Cutler (1890-1971) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate.
The 1942 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1942. Republican incumbent Leverett Saltonstall defeated Democrat Roger Putnam,Communist candidate Otis A. Hood,Socialist candidate Joseph Massidda,Socialist Labor candidate Henning A. Blomen,and Prohibition candidate Guy S. Williams.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Berkshire 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 Berkshire County. Democrat John Barrett of North Adams has represented the district since 2017.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Bristol 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 New Bedford in Bristol County. Since 1991,Antonio Cabral of the Democratic Party has represented the district.
