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Swift, Jane Maria
US Republican politician lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1999-2001 acting governor of Massachusetts 2001-2003 (1st female governor) 1st sitting US governor to give ...
[ 63% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Romney, [Willard] Mitt
... Mormon clergyman, and Republican politician Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts 1994 president of Salt Lake City Olympic organizing committee 1999-2002 governor of Massachusetts 2003-- widely ...
[ 63% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Tippo, Oswald
... provost of University of Colorado 1960-1963 provost of University of Massachusetts 1964-1970 chancellor of University of Massachusetts 1970-1971
[ 63% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Adams, Brooks
1848 - Born on the 24th of June in Quincy, Massachusetts. 1870 - He graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard Law School. 1895 - ...
[ 62% ] Last updated: Sun 20th May 07
Very, Jones
1813 - Born on August 28th in Salem, Massachusetts to Captain Jones Very and his first cousin Lydia ... - He wrote Essays and Poems. 1880 - Died on May ...
[ 62% ] Last updated: Fri 27th Apr 07
Tsongas, Paul Efthemios
US Democratic politician Representative from Massachusetts 1975-1979 Senator from Massachusetts 1979-1985 candidate for Democratic presidential nomination 1992 member of Lamm ...
[ 62% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Butler, Benjamin Franklin
... War 1862 military governor of New Orleans 1862 Representative from Massachusetts 1867-1875, 1877-1879 governor of Massachusetts 1883-1884 (Democratic) Greenback presidential candidate 1884
[ 61% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Glover, John
1732 - He was born in Salem, Massachusetts on November 5th. A Revolutionary War General. He raised ... Sullivan. 1780 - Was superintendent of drafts in Massachusetts. - A member of the André court of inquiry at Tappan, New ... in Marblehead, Massachusetts on January 30th. 1863 - William P. Upham of Salem, Massachusetts, prepared and published an interesting memoir of ...
[ 61% ] Last updated: Sat 24th Mar 07
Everett, Edward
1794 - Born on April 11th in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts. 1811 - Graduated from Harvard University. 1812 - Became ... the four succeeding Congresses. 1827 - Was an overseer of Harvard University. 1836 - Became the Governor of Massachusetts. 1841 - ...
[ 60% ] Last updated: Thu 17th May 07
Boott, Kirk
1791 - Born on the 20th of October in Boston, Massachusetts. American manufacturer. - He attended Rugby School in England, ... returned to Boston and became involved in the Boston Manufacturing Company at Waltham, Massachusetts. 1818 - Kirk Boott had married Francis ... constructed and one of many cotton textile mill complexes established in the growing city of Lowell, Massachusetts. 1837 - He died ...
[ 60% ] Last updated: Sat 18th Aug 07
Bradford, Robert Fiske (Robert)
... returned to the private practice of law, and later in life served as President of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts. - He served one term as Governor of ... 1902 - Bradford was born in Boston, Massachusetts on the 15th of December. 1923 - He graduated ...
[ 60% ] Last updated: Thu 23rd Aug 07
Frank, Barney
... Mayor Kevin White of Boston, Massachusetts. 1971 - 1972 - Staff of United States Representative Michael F. Harrington of Massachusetts. 1973 - 1980 - Member of the ... High School, Bayonne, New Jersey. 1962 - A.B. graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1962 - 1972 - Graduate work in ...
[ 60% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Apr 07
Duffey, Joseph Daniel
... National Endowment for the Humanities 1978-1981 chancellor of University of Massachusetts 1982-1990 president of University of Massachusetts 1990-1991 president of American University 1991-1993 last director of US ...
[ 60% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Boolos, George Stephen
... the B. Phil. 1966 - Served as first recipient of Ph.D. in philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - He taught at Columbia University for three years before returning to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1969 - Became professor ...
[ 59% ] Last updated: Sat 18th Aug 07
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr. (the Great Dissenter)
... Massachusetts bar 1867 partner in law firm Shattuck, Holmes and Munroe 1873-1882 wrote "The Common Law" 1881 associate justice of Massachusetts supreme court 1882-1899 chief justice of Massachusetts supreme court 1899-1902 Supreme Court justice 1902-1932 wrote decisions for ...
[ 59% ] Last updated: Wed 30th Jan 08
Warren, James
1726 - Born on September 28th and raised in Plymouth, Massachusetts. President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. 1745 - James Warren graduated from Harvard. 1754 - ... Act crisis. - He began a 12-year term in Massachusetts General Court the following year. - An outspoken opponent of British ...
[ 59% ] Last updated: Fri 30th Mar 07
Bulger, William Michael (Billy)
1934 - Bulger was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on the 2nd of February. 1952 - He enrolled ... States Army . 1959 - Bulger became interested in politics, a watershed year in Massachusetts politics. 1961 - He returned to ... from which he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. 1970 - He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, representing the First ...
[ 59% ] Last updated: Wed 05th Sep 07
Weld, William Floyd (Bill)
... politician assistant attorney general for criminal division 1986-1988 governor of Massachusetts 1991-1997 Republican candidate for Senate from Massachusetts 1996 nominated 1997 as US ambassador to Mexico, but withdrew ...
[ 57% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
McCormack, John William
US lawyer and Democratic politician admitted to Massachusetts bar 1913 Representative from Massachusetts 1928-1971 House majority leader 1940-1947, 1949-1953, 1955-1962 House minority whip ...
[ 57% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Sampson, Deborah (Mrs. Deborah Gannett)
1760 - Born in the county of Plymouth, Massachusetts in the town of Middleboro, Massachusetts on the 17th of December. 1778 - On the ... of October, General George Washington honorably discharged Deborah Sampson from the army at West Point. 1784 - Deborah married at Stoughton, ...
[ 56% ] Last updated: Tue 17th Jul 07
Adams, John
1735 - Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts on October 31st. The second president of the United ... the instructions which were sent by the inhabitants of Braintree to its representatives in the Massachusetts legislature and served as a ... Court. 1789-1797 - Served as that nation's first Vice President.
[ 56% ] Last updated: Mon 01st Jan 07
Gray, Horace
US jurist associate justice of Massachusetts supreme court 1864-1873 chief justice of Massachusetts supreme court 1873-1881 Supreme Court justice 1881-1902 son-in-law of Stanley ...
[ 56% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Dr. Joseph Warren
... Dr. Joseph Warren, born on the 11th of June in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was an American doctor and soldier, remembered for ... private soldier while also serving as chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts government. 1759 - He graduated from Harvard College at ... public safety. 1775 - He took an active part in the fighting on the 19th of April, was appointed major-general of ...
[ 56% ] Last updated: Fri 25th May 07
Bulfinch, Charles
1763 - Charles Bulfinch was born on August 8th in Boston, Massachusetts. Architect of the United States capitol. 1781 - He ... as the architect for the United States capitol, which had been burned by the British. 1820 - He designed Massachusetts General Hospital. 1844 ...
[ 55% ] Last updated: Mon 04th Jun 07
Hitchcock, Edward
... as Professor of Natural Theology. 1830 - He ran the first geological survey of Massachusetts, and was appointed state geologist of Massachusetts 1845 - Hitchcock became President of ...
[ 55% ] Last updated: Tue 22nd May 07
Boutwell, George Sewall
1818 - Born on January 28th in Brookline, Massachusetts. American Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts. 1841 - Engaged in mercantile pursuits in Groton, Massachusetts. - He was appointed postmaster of Groton. 1842 ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Tue 21st Aug 07
Brooke, Edward William III (Ed)
... Commission in the City of Boston. 1962 - Elected attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was the first black general of any U.S. state. 1967 - Elected as United ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Wed 29th Aug 07
Eliot, William Greenleaf
1811 - Born on the 25th of August in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. 1831 - He graduated Columbian Collage, Washington D.C. United States. 1834 - He graduated in Harvard Divinity ...
[ 54% ] Last updated: Mon 28th May 07
Thomas, Isaiah
... - Isaiah Thomas born on the 8th of January in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an American newspaper publisher and author. He ... the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Worcester, Massachusetts. 1756 - He was apprenticed to Zechariah Fowle. While ... to Boston and Fowle. Shortly after, they became partners who established the newspaper Massachusetts Spy. Thomas's Whig tendencies led his paper ...
[ 53% ] Last updated: Mon 26th Mar 07
Wyeth, Newell Convers (N. C. Wyeth)
1882- Born in Needham, Massachusetts 1903 - left Massachusetts at 21 to study art with the famous illustrator ...
[ 53% ] Last updated: Tue 19th Sep 06
