Meshech Weare was an American farmer,lawyer,and statesman from Seabrook and Hampton Falls,New Hampshire. He served as the first president of New Hampshire. Before 1784 the position of governor was referred to as “president of New Hampshire.”He is also called “The father of New Hampshire.”The first president of the earlier Province of New Hampshire was John Cutt.
Samuel Livermore was an American politician,who served as the U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1793 to 1801 and served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1796 and again in 1799.
Alexander Hamilton Bullock was an American lawyer,politician,and businessman from Massachusetts. First a Whig and then a Republican,he served three terms (1866–69) as the 26th Governor of Massachusetts. He was actively opposed to the expansion of slavery before the American Civil War,playing a major role in the New England Emigrant Aid Society,founded in 1855 to settle the Kansas Territory with abolitionists. He was for many years involved in the insurance industry in Worcester,where he also served one term as mayor.
Samuel Leland Powers was a United States representative from Massachusetts.
The government of the State of New Jersey is separated into three distinct branches:legislative,executive,and judicial. The powers of the State of New Jersey are vested by the Constitution of New Jersey,enacted in 1947,in a bicameral state legislature,the Governor,and the state courts,headed the New Jersey Supreme Court. The powers and duties of these branches are further defined by acts of the state legislature,including the creation of executive departments and courts inferior to the Supreme Court.
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.
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.
Sean Garballey is the current Massachusetts State Representative for the 23rd Middlesex District representing Arlington and West Medford. He was elected in a special election on 4 March 2008,after the incumbent,J. James Marzilli Jr. won a 2007 special election for a seat in the Massachusetts Senate.
William Nutt was a colonel in the American Civil War,a representative to the Massachusetts General Court from 1871 to 1872 and again in 1901,he was also the chairman of the board of the Natick Five Cents Savings Bank.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is governed by a set of political tenets laid down in its state constitution. Legislative power is held by the bicameral General Court,which is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives. The governor exercises executive power with other independently elected officers:the Attorney General,Secretary of the Commonwealth,and Auditor. The state's judicial power rests in the Supreme Judicial Court,which manages its court system. Cities and towns act through local governmental bodies to the extent that they are authorized by the Commonwealth on local issues,including limited home-rule authority. Although most county governments were abolished during the 1990s and 2000s,a handful remain.
Jeremiah Smith was a United States representative for New Hampshire,United States Attorney for New Hampshire,a United States circuit judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit,the sixth governor of New Hampshire and chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and the New Hampshire Supreme Judicial Court. He was a member of the Federalist Party.
Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr. served as a Democratic State Senator from January 1,1997,until January 3,2007,representing the Berkshire,Hampshire,Franklin,and Hampden and Berkshire,Hampshire and Franklin Massachusetts Senate districts in western Massachusetts. He is an attorney,having practiced law with a focus on commercial real estate,health care,education and business litigation. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination of the United States House of Representatives in Massachusetts's newly drawn 1st congressional district on September 6,2012.
Michael O. Moore is an American politician from Millbury,Massachusetts,who serves as the Massachusetts state senator for the Second Worcester District,comprising his hometown of Millbury and seven other communities including parts of the city of Worcester. He is member of the Democratic Party who has served in the Massachusetts Legislature since January 7,2009.
Paul W. Mark is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate. He represents the Berkshire,Hampden,Franklin and Hampshire District,which includes 57 cities and towns throughout Berkshire,Franklin,Hampden,and Hampshire counties. Paul Mark previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Shawn C. Dooley is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 9th Norfolk district,succeeding Dan Winslow. The 9th Norfolk District constitutes all or parts of the Towns of Medfield,Millis,Norfolk,Plainville,Walpole,and Wrentham. A member of the Republican Party,he was sworn in January 29,2014. In 2022,he vacated the seat to run for the Massachusetts State Senate,he was defeated by incumbent Becca Rausch.
George Edwin Smith was a Massachusetts lawyer,legal writer,and politician. He served three terms as the President of the Massachusetts Senate. Previous to his assumption of the Senate Presidency,he served as a member of the Massachusetts Senate,elected from the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr. is a former justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court as an Associate Justice,having been appointed by Governor Deval Patrick in 2011 and serving until reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2020. In addition to being an active member of the legal community in providing "…service on numerous Supreme Judicial Court and Bar Association committees,commissions[,]…task forces,[et al.]…," Justice Agnes has also been passionate about education,having taught at the Massachusetts School of Law for the past fifteen years,and continuing to do so currently. Agnes presently resides in Wayland,MA with his wife Eileen Agnes. They have four children and three grandchildren,boasting a passionate relationship with their extensive family outside of their legal careers.
William Paul Constantino Sr. was an American state legislator who was a justice of Clinton District Court and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
