North Andover is a town in Essex County,Massachusetts,United States. At the 2020 census,the population was 30,915.
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.
Kappa Delta Phi (ΚΔΦ),also known as KDPhi,is a social fraternity that was founded on April 14,1900,at the Bridgewater State Normal School,now known as Bridgewater State University. The fraternity currently boasts 14 active chapters. A sorority,Kappa Delta Phi National Affiliated Sorority or NAS,was formed in 1971,and remains closely affiliated with the fraternity.
Joseph Daniel Duffey was an American academic,educator,anti-war activist and political appointee. He was the Democratic Party's candidate in the 1970 U.S. Senate election in Connecticut,losing to Republican Lowell Weicker. He later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs;the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities;the director of the U.S. Information Agency;and the president or chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,the University of Massachusetts system and American University.
Suffolk University Law School is the private,non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston,across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail,two blocks from the Massachusetts State House,and a short walk to the financial district. Suffolk Law was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer Sr. to provide a legal education for those who traditionally lacked the opportunity to study law because of socio-economic or racial discrimination.
Josiah Quincy III was an American educator and political figure. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1805–1813),mayor of Boston (1823–1828),and President of Harvard University (1829–1845). The historic Quincy Market in downtown Boston is named in his honor. A panel of 69 scholars in 1993 ranked him among the ten best mayors in American history.
James Michael Shannon is an American Democratic politician from Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985,and later as the Massachusetts Attorney General.
Paul William Cronin was a one-term congressman of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
John Locke,was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
James Bradley Eldridge is an American politician and lawyer. He serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Middlesex and Worcester District. Eldridge previously served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,where he sat on the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business,the Joint Committee on Election Laws,and the Joint Committee on Public Service.
Barry R. Finegold currently serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Essex and Middlesex district since 2019. He previously served from January 2011 to January 2015. He is a former state representative of the 17th Essex district in Massachusetts. In January 2014,he announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On September 9,2014,Finegold lost in the Democratic primary to Deb Goldberg,who was elected Treasurer in November 2014.
Moses Tyler Stevens was an American textile manufacturer and a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Eileen Donoghue is an American politician who is the former city manager of Lowell,Massachusetts (2018–2022),a former member of the Massachusetts Senate,where she has represented the First Middlesex District from 2011 to 2018,as well as a former city councilor (1996–2008) and mayor (1998–2002) of Lowell. She ran in the Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District special election in 2007 to fill the United States House of Representatives seat vacated by Marty Meehan,narrowly losing the Democratic primary to Niki Tsongas. In the Massachusetts Senate,Donoghue has been a staunch advocate for small businesses,economic development in gateway cities,and public higher education. She has spearheaded efforts to reduce student loan debt and create pathways to stable jobs.
Henry Gordon Wells was a lawyer and a Republican politician in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
The Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Merrimack is one of the larger waterways in New England and has helped to define the livelihood and culture of those living along it for millennia.
The American Textile History Museum (ATHM),located in Lowell,Massachusetts,was founded as the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (MVTM) in North Andover,Massachusetts in 1960 by Caroline Stevens Rogers. ATHM told America’s story through the art,science,and history of textiles. In June 2016,the museum closed. The bulk of the library and archives as well as many fabric samples were acquired by Cornell University.
Massachusetts Senate's 1st Middlesex district in the United States is one of 40 legislative districts of the Massachusetts Senate. It covers portions of Middlesex county. Democrat Ed Kennedy of Lowell has represented the district since 2019.
Edward J. Kennedy Jr. is an American politician,and member of the Massachusetts Senate from the 1st Middlesex district. He has previously served as the 90th Mayor of Lowell (2016–2018).
