John Walter Olver was an American politician and chemist who was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania,Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for eight years.
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.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan and is the dominant party in the state,controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,all six elected statewide offices including the governorship,and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Joseph James Marzilli Jr. was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. Marzilli,a Democrat,was elected to the Senate in a special election in December 2007,representing the communities of Arlington,Billerica,Burlington,Lexington and Woburn partway through his ninth term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing Arlington and West Medford. He was the Senate Chair of the Committee on Tourism,Arts and Cultural Development. He also served on the Committees on Children and Families,Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Veterans' Affairs. He resigned from the chamber on November 14,2008,after charges of sexual harassment.
Hefner or Heffner is a German surname meaning 'potter'. It may refer to:
Dianne Wilkerson is a former Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing the 2nd Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008 as the first African American female to serve in the chamber.
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.
The Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal was part of a series of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in the United States that revealed widespread crimes in the American Catholic Church. In early 2002,TheBoston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded guilty. The Globe's coverage encouraged other victims to come forward with allegations of abuse,resulting in numerous lawsuits and 249 criminal cases.
Hogan Lovells is an American-British law firm co-headquartered in London and Washington,DC. The firm was formed in 2010 by the merger of the American law firm Hogan &Hartson and the British law firm Lovells. As of 2024,the firm employed about 2,800 lawyers,making it the sixth largest law firm in the world.
Daniel A. Wolf is an American entrepreneur,aircraft pilot,and politician. In 1989,he founded the Cape Cod-based airline Cape Air,which originally flew between Provincetown and Boston in Massachusetts,and has since expanded internationally. In 2010,he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate to represent the Cape and Islands district. He ran unopposed in 2012,and was subsequently re-elected to a third term in 2014. During his tenure,he has emerged as a progressive leader in the Senate,advocating for renewable energy,increased minimum wage,and universal health care.
The 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of Massachusetts,concurrently with the election of Massachusetts' Class II U.S. Senate seat,and other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The MBM scandal was an American political scandal of the 1970s which involved members of the Massachusetts Senate extorting money from McKee-Berger-Mansueto,Inc. (MBM),the consulting company supervising the construction of the University of Massachusetts Boston campus at Columbia Point.
Stephen W. Doran is an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995. He later worked as a bank executive and math tutor. In 2014 he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and served 3 years in prison;he was scheduled to finish his sentence in 2017.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
Dean A. Tran is an American politician from Fitchburg,Massachusetts,who was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 2017 in a special election. He represented the Worcester and Middlesex District,and is a Republican. Before his election to the Massachusetts Senate,Tran was a member of the Fitchburg City Council.
Mitchell "Mitch" Garabedian is a lawyer known for representing sexual abuse victims in the Boston area during the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal,including the cases against Paul Shanley,John Geoghan,and the Archdiocese of Boston. He also represented one of the people who accused Jerry Sandusky of sexual misconduct,and the man who accused Bryon Hefner,the husband of former Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg,of sexual assault,leading to Rosenberg's resignation.
Jarvis Hunt was an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1942 to 1944.
Rachael Splaine Rollins is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. attorney for District of Massachusetts from 2022 to 2023. Before that,she was the district attorney for Suffolk County,Massachusetts.
