Roger Williams was an English-born New England Puritan minister,theologian,and author who founded Providence Plantations,which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state,and fair dealings with the Native Americans.
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County,Massachusetts,United States,and part of the Boston metropolitan area. An exclave of Norfolk County,Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods:Brighton,Allston,Fenway–Kenmore,Mission Hill,Jamaica Plain,and West Roxbury. The city of Newton borders Brookline to the west. It is known for being the birthplace of John F. Kennedy.
Roger Sherman was an early American statesman,lawyer,and a Founding Father of the United States. He is the only person to sign all four great state papers of the United States:the Continental Association,the Declaration of Independence,the Articles of Confederation,and the 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 until his death in 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 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.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America,bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707,and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776,when it became the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Its official name according to the Royal Charter of 1663 is the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations,in the Narragansett Bay,New England,in America.
Roger Wolcott was a Republican lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 36th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897,becoming acting governor in 1896 upon the death of Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge. He was elected the 39th governor of Massachusetts 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.
Sherman Hoar was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of Congress representing Massachusetts,and U.S. District Attorney for Massachusetts. As a young man he was the 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 a Romanian-born American 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.
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 Tuesday November 3,to elect Governor of Massachusetts. incumbent Governor Leverett Saltonstall defeated Democrat candidate 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' 11th 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 Bristol County. Democrat Chris Hendricks of New Bedford has represented the district since 2019.
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.
The 1898 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1898. Incumbent Republican Governor Roger Wolcott was re-elected to a third term in office,defeating Democratic former mayor of Lawrence Alexander B. Bruce.
