100 Notable alumni of
Suffolk University
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Suffolk University is 923rd in the world, 340th in North America, and 318th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Suffolk University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jenna Marbles
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- television producerpodcasterYouTuber
- Biography
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Jenna Nicole Mourey, better known as Jenna Marbles, is an American YouTuber. Over the span of ten years, her YouTube channel has accumulated approximately 1.8 billion video views and, at its peak, over 20 million subscribers. After apologizing for a series of accusations involving offensive content in her older videos, Marbles announced her indefinite hiatus from the platform in 2020.
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Paul Benedict
- Occupations
- actortheatrical directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Paul Bernard Benedict was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and films, beginning in 1965. He was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the PBS children's show Sesame Street and as the English neighbor Harry Bentley on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.
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Frank Caprio
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgetelevision personalityteacher
- Biography
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Francesco Caprio is an American judge and politician who served as the chief judge of the municipal court of Providence, Rhode Island, and chairman of the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education. His judicial work is televised on the program Caught in Providence. He has also made appearances in the series Parking Wars, adjudicating several cases of traffic violations.
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Nick Buoniconti
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti was an American professional football player who was a middle linebacker in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Buoniconti played professionally for the Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins, winning two Super Bowls with the Dolphins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Frank T. Caprio
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Frank T. Caprio is an American banker, lawyer, and politician from Rhode Island. His twenty-year political career has included being elected as the 29th General Treasurer of Rhode Island from 2007 to 2011. He was the first political candidate in the United States to use on-demand television to reach voters and one of the first candidates to launch an Internet TV channel for use in a political campaign in 2006.
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David Caprio
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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David A. Caprio is an American businessman, investor, lawyer, and politician who served as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from District 34. He was first elected on December 21, 1999. In 2010, Caprio was defeated in a September primary election.
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William B. Evans
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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William B. Evans is currently serving as the executive director of public safety and chief of police of Boston College. Previously, Evans was the commissioner of the Boston Police Department from January 2014 until August 2018. Evans served as interim commissioner from November 2013 until he was permanently appointed by newly elected mayor Marty Walsh. He announced his retirement from the Boston Police Department in July 2018. He currently serves as the chief of the Boston College police department. A graduate of Suffolk University, Evans holds a master's degree in cybersecurity from Boston College and another master's in criminal justice from Anna Maria College. He is also a graduate of the FBI’s National Academy, FBI's National Executive Institute, Department of Homeland Security Post Naval Executive Leaders Program and received several certificates from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in subjects ranging from homeland security to preparedness leadership. He is active in several professional organizations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Major Cities Chiefs Association, and is currently an adjunct professor at Boston College and Boston University.
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Dan Harrington
- Occupations
- chess playerpoker playerlawyer
- Biography
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Dan Harrington is a professional poker player, best known for winning the Main Event at the 1995 World Series of Poker. He has earned one World Poker Tour title, two WSOP bracelets, and over six million dollars in tournament cashes in his poker career. He is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.
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Allan Fung
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Allan Wai-Ket Fung is an American attorney and politician who served as Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island from 2009 to 2021. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2014 and 2018 elections as well as the Republican nominee for U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district in 2022.
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Alejandro Betancourt López
- Occupations
- directorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt López is a Venezuelan businessman who is Chairman and CEO of Derwick Associates, an engineering, procurement and construction company. He is the leader of the international investment group O'Hara Administration, and a director of Pacific Exploration & Production Corporation, a publicly held Canadian company and a leading explorer and producer of natural gas and crude oil which operates in various Latin American countries. Betancourt controls 19.95% of Pacific Exploration & Production. He is also president of Hawkers, a Spanish sunglasses company.
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Althea Garrison
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Althea Garrison is an American politician from Boston, Massachusetts who previously served a single term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1993–1995) and a partial term as an at-large councilor on the Boston City Council (2019–2020). She is considered the earliest transgender person known to have been elected to a state legislature in the United States. She was outed against her will by the Boston Herald after her 1992 election. She is a perennial candidate, having been an unsuccessful candidate for political office more than forty times.
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Bill Keating
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- In 1985 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Richard Keating is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 2011, representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district until redistricting. Keating's district includes Cape Cod and most of the South Coast. He raised his profile advocating for criminal justice issues in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court from 1977 to 1999 before becoming district attorney of Norfolk County, where he served three terms before being elected to Congress.
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William F. Galvin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Francis Galvin is an American politician who serves as the 27th Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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James Bamford
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerhistorianintelligence analystauthorjournalist
- Biography
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James Bamford is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). The New York Times has called him "the nation's premier journalist on the subject of the National Security Agency" and The New Yorker named him "the NSA's chief chronicler."
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Richard J. Leon
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Richard J. Leon is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Stephen Kurkjian
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Stephen A. Kurkjian is an American journalist and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1972 and 1980. Additionally, he contributed to The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. He also received the George Polk Award in 1982 and 1994. He won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in 1995.
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Marty Meehan
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- In 1981 graduated with Master in Public Administration
- In 1983 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerfinancial analystadjunct professorpolitician
- Biography
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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.
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John F. Tierney
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- In 1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John F. Tierney is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1997 to 2015. He is a Democrat who represented the state's 6th district, which includes the state's North Shore and Cape Ann. Born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, Tierney graduated from Salem State College and Suffolk University Law School. He worked in private law and served on the Salem Chamber of Commerce from 1976 to 1997. Tierney first ran for the House of Representatives in 1994 against Republican incumbent Peter G. Torkildsen, losing by a small margin. He defeated Torkildsen in a rematch in 1996.
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Joe Moakley
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- In 1956 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Joseph Moakley was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001. Moakley won the seat from incumbent Louise Day Hicks in a 1972 rematch; the seat had been held two years earlier by the retiring Speaker of the House John William McCormack. Moakley was the last Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules before Republicans took control of the chamber in 1995. He is the namesake of Joe Moakley Park in Boston, Massachusetts which was renamed in his honor in 2001 after his death.
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Setti Warren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Setti David Warren is an American politician. He served as Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and is a former Democratic candidate for United States Senate in 2012. He is the first popularly elected African-American mayor in Massachusetts.
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John Frederick Collins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Frederick Collins was an American lawyer who served as the mayor of Boston from 1960 to 1968. Collins was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1947 to 1955. He and his children caught polio during a 1955 outbreak. He was reliant on a wheelchair and crutches the rest of his life. After partially recovering, he ran for mayor in 1959 as an underdog. He successfully portrayed himself as outside corrupt "machine politics" and was elected.
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Robert DeLeo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Alfred DeLeo is an American former politician from the state of Massachusetts. He served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2009 to 2020, having succeeded Salvatore DiMasi, who resigned due to allegations of an ethics violation.
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Gustavo Gelpí
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Gustavo Antonio Gelpí Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is a former chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
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George Sifakis
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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George Anthony Sifakis is a former United States federal government official and government relations professional. Sifakis is currently the CEO of IdeagenGlobal.com which convenes global leaders to develop partnerships and solutions to the world's most troubling issues.
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Alexandra Bech Gjørv
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- Studied in 1991-1991
- Occupations
- businesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Alexandra Bech Gjørv is a Norwegian lawyer and businesswoman. She has been chief executive of SINTEF since 2016.
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Brian A. Joyce
- Years
- 1962-2018 (aged 56)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian Augustine Joyce was an American politician who was a Massachusetts State Senator for the Democratic Party. He served for nine terms, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes Avon, Braintree Precincts 1A, 1B, 2A & 2B, Canton, East Bridgewater Precinct 4, Easton Precincts 3-6, Milton, Randolph, Sharon Precincts 2 & 3, Stoughton, and West Bridgewater.
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T.J. Donovan
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas J. "T. J." Donovan Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who served as Vermont Attorney General from 2017 to 2022. He was first elected in 2016 with over 66 percent of the vote. He previously served for ten years as State's Attorney of Chittenden County, the most populous county in Vermont.
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Joseph M. Tierney
- Years
- 1941-2009 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph M. Tierney was an American politician who served as a member of the Boston City Council from 1972 to 1987. He was the President of the City Council in 1977, 1979, and from 1983 to 1985. He was a candidate for Mayor of Boston in 1987, losing to incumbent Raymond Flynn, 67% to 33%. He was the father of actress Maura Tierney.
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Bruce Tarr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bruce E. Tarr is an American politician who serves as a Republican member and Minority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate. Since 1995 he has represented the 1st Essex and Middlesex District. He is a member of the United States Republican Party and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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John Bernard Hynes
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Bernard Hynes, was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston from 1950 to 1960.
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Ronald Machtley
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ronald Keith "Ron" Machtley is an American politician and former president of Bryant University. Machtley served three terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island from 1989 to 1995. From 1996 to 2020, Machtley served as president of Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and was awarded faculty/staff membership in Omicron Delta Kappa there in 2005.
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Anthony Zinno
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Anthony Zinno is a professional poker player from Cranston, Rhode Island. He has won three World Poker Tour (WPT) titles and four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets.
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Roland Merullo
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Roland Merullo is an American author who writes novels, essays and memoir. His best-known works are the novels Breakfast with Buddha, In Revere, In Those Days, A Little Love Story, Revere Beach Boulevard and the memoir Revere Beach Elegy. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, German, Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Italian.
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Heather King
- Occupations
- essayist
- Biography
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Heather King is a Los Angeles-based writer, blogger and speaker. Raised on the coast of New Hampshire, she struggled with alcoholism—a period during which she made the ill-advised decision to attend law school—sobered up in 1987, quit her job as an attorney, and converted to Catholicism in 1996.
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Jo Ann Rooney
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Jo Ann Rooney is an American educator with a background in higher education, law, business, health care, and public service. On May 23, 2016, she was named the 24th president of Loyola University Chicago, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois. Rooney is the first lay, non-Jesuit president of the university in its history and began her term as president on August 1, 2016. On August 23, 2021, she announced in a statement that the current school year will be her last as President of the University. Dr. Rooney's tenure at Loyola ended on September 30, 2022.
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Ryan Fattman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ryan C. Fattman is an American politician, who currently serves in the Massachusetts State Senate. Previously, Fattman represented the 18th Worcester district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Republican.
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Andrea Cabral
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Andrea J. Cabral is an American lawyer and former Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
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Linda Dorcena Forry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Linda Dorcena Forry is a former Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate, who represented the 1st Suffolk district from June 2013 - January 2018. She previously represented the 12th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives after winning a special election in April 2005. Haitian-American, Dorcena Forry, is the former House Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business.
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Gabriela Rodriguez
- Occupations
- co-producerfilm producer
- Biography
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Gabriela Rodríguez is a Venezuelan film producer based in London. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for her work on Roma, and was the first Latin American woman to earn a nomination in that category. She also won two BAFTAs and a British Independent Film Award, as well as other nominations for her production work on the film.
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William L. Uanna
- Occupations
- military personnelengineerlawyer
- Biography
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William Lewis "Bud" Uanna was an American security expert, who gained prominence as a security officer with the Manhattan Project, which built the first atomic bomb during World War II.
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Cheryl Jacques
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Cheryl Ann Jacques is an American politician and attorney who served six terms in the Massachusetts Senate, was the president of the Human Rights Campaign for 11 months, and served as an administrative judge in the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents.
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Dapper O'Neil
- Years
- 1920-2007 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Leo "Dapper" O'Neil was an American politician who served as a socially conservative member of the Boston City Council for twenty-eight years. Prior to joining the council, he served on the Boston Licensing Board and was an operative for the Mayor of Boston James Michael Curley.
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Mary S. McElroy
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Mary Susan McElroy is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
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John Velis
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Christopher Velis is an American state legislator and Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate since 2020. He previously represented the 2nd Hampden and Hampshire district, which includes his hometown of Westfield, and currently represents the Hampden and Hampshire district after the 2020 census. Prior his election to the state senate, Velis was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2014 to 2020.
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Michael P. Ross
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Biography
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Michael P. Ross is an American lawyer and former politician from Boston, Massachusetts, who represented District 8 on the Boston City Council from 2000 through 2013. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston in 2013. Ross is now a real estate lawyer at Prince Lobel Tye LLP, and is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe.
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Paul Mark
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Robert Laurent Caret
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert Laurent Caret is an American academic and the former chancellor of the University System of Maryland. He became chancellor on July 1, 2015. Caret, a native of New England, became chancellor of the University System of Maryland after completing presidencies at San Jose State University, Towson University and the University of Massachusetts.
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James Anthony Burke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Anthony Burke was a United States Representative from Massachusetts from 1959 to 1979.
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Timothy S. Hillman
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Timothy Spafard Hillman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
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David Niose
- Biography
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David Niose is an attorney, author, and activist who has served as president of the American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition for America. In these positions he has pursued legal and advocacy efforts on behalf of secularism.
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Eileen Donoghue
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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.
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Thomas Joseph Lane
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- In 1925 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Joseph Lane was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1941 to 1963, notable for having been re-elected after serving time in federal prison.
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Joan Vennochi
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Joan Elizabeth Vennochi is an American newspaper columnist. She specializes in local and national politics at The Boston Globe. With Stephen A. Kurkjian, Alexander B. Hawes Jr., Nils Bruzelius, and Robert M. Porterfield she won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting.
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Edward M. Augustus, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edward M. Augustus Jr. is an American politician and administrator who is the Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Livable Communities. He was the City Manager of Worcester, Massachusetts from 2014 to 2022 and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.
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Elspeth B. Cypher
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Elspeth B. Cypher is a former justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts who served from 2017 to 2024. She is also a former justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, where she served from 2000 to 2017.
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K. Joseph Shekarchi
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Khalil Joseph Shekarchi is an American politician currently serving as the Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. A Democrat, he has represented District 23 in Warwick since January 1, 2013. He was chairman of the House Labor Committee until his Democratic colleagues elected him as the House majority leader in November 2016. After four years as majority leader, his colleagues elected him speaker in November 2020 following the defeat of longtime speaker Nicholas Mattiello. Shekarchi considers himself a moderate Democrat.
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Matthew Malone
- Biography
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Matthew H. Malone is an American educator who served as the superintendent of Fall River Public Schools from 2016 until 2021. Malone is also the former Massachusetts secretary of education.
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Marian Walsh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marian Walsh is an American author, consultant, lawyer and former politician. She is a former State Senator in the Massachusetts Senate where she served nine terms, and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where she served two terms. She was the first woman to serve in the Massachusetts State House and the State Senate from her district. Walsh began her own consulting and coaching firm upon leaving public office. She also authored Run, a book about running for political office as well as started a campaign school at the Kennedy Library.
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Jerald G. Fishman
- Years
- 1945-2013 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Jerald G. Fishman was an American electrical engineer and businessman. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996 until his death in March 2013. He was a 35-year veteran of Analog Devices and also served on the Board of Directors of Analog Devices, Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc.
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Paul Reiber
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Paul L. Reiber is the Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Reiber graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1970 and from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. Reiber was in private practice in Rutland until becoming a partner in Kenlan, Schwiebert & Facey in 1986. He also served for six years on Vermont's Judicial Nominating Board. He was appointed by Governor Jim Douglas as an associate justice in October 2003. Governor Douglas swore him in as chief justice on December 17, 2004.
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Michael P. Cahill
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael P. Cahill is an American politician who is the 34th and current mayor of Beverly, Massachusetts. He previously represented the 6th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003. He was a candidate for Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts in 2002, finishing fourth in the Democratic primary.
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Marc R. Pacheco
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marc R. Pacheco is an American state legislator serving in the Massachusetts Senate. He represents the 1st Plymouth and Bristol district, which includes his hometown of Taunton and nearby towns. He is a Democrat who has served since 1993. From 1989 to 1992 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature he was a member of the Taunton school committee (1980–89) and the Chief Assistant to the Mayor of Taunton (1982–88).
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Paul Suttell
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Paul Allyn Suttell is the chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
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Marsha Kazarosian
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Marsha V. Kazarosian is an American attorney in Haverhill, Massachusetts notable for handling high-profile cases in the New England area. Her handling of a gender discrimination case involving a country club brought her national recognition. She represented one of the teenaged defendants in the 1990 murder of a young husband by his wife Pamela Smart, who conspired with her teenaged lover to murder her husband for insurance money; the story became the basis of the subsequent movie To Die For starring Nicole Kidman, and the television movie Murder in New Hampshire starring Helen Hunt. Her legal skill was the subject of a cover story entitled The Power of Marsha Kazarosian in a publication geared to the legal community.
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Anthony D. Galluccio
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anthony D. Galluccio is a former American Massachusetts State Senator, and a Democratic politician having won the seat vacated by Jarrett T. Barrios. He is a graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, Providence College, and Suffolk Law School.
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Howard Sloane
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Howard G. Sloane (born December, 1950) is an American philanthropist and the Chairman and CEO of The Heckscher Foundation for Children, a New York-based private foundation established in 1921 by German-born industrialist, financier, and philanthropist August Heckscher. In 1997, Sloane took over the affairs of the Heckscher Foundation when its assets consisted largely of encumbered real estate which limited its ability to make meaningful gifts. He restructured and developed the Foundation into a significant funder of innovative education, job training, recreation, and the arts programs with assets of over $300 million. Under Sloane's leadership, the modern day Foundation underwrites projects with potential for catalytic impact when combined with public funds or other donors, and operates its own strategic philanthropy programs to promote the welfare of children and youth in New York City.
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Matthew J. Amorello
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Matthew John Amorello is a former Massachusetts state senator and former chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority who presided over the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (Big Dig) from 2002 to 2006. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority is the agency that was in charge of the Big Dig project.
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David Sargent
- Years
- 1931-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- social scientist
- Biography
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David J. Sargent was the President of Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts from 1989 to 2010.
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Frank M. Gaziano
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Frank M. Gaziano is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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Steven C. Panagiotakos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Steven C. Panagiotakos is a former Democratic Massachusetts state senator, and was the chairperson of the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
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Edmund Dinis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edmund Dinis was a Portuguese-born American politician from Massachusetts.
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Mike Festa
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Mike Festa is state director of AARP Massachusetts, based in Boston, which serves 800,000 members age 50+ in the commonwealth.
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Samuel Zoll
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Edward Zoll was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He began his career as a high school teacher then became a lawyer, politician, then a judge. Later in life he was named to be Chief Justice of the District Courts in Massachusetts.
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Field Ruwe
- Occupations
- novelistjournalist
- Biography
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Field Ruwe is an educator, historian, author, and scholar practitioner currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. In his native country of Zambia, Dr. Ruwe is known as a radio and television host, and entrepreneur. On March 30, 2016, Ruwe signed a book contract with the Oklahoma-based Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LCC for his novel "Crown Jewels." The deal includes Ruwe's future fiction and nonfiction works.
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Gerard Francis Doherty
- Years
- 1928-2020 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- politicianlobbyistlawyer
- Biography
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Gerard Francis Doherty was an American political figure who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1957 to 1965 and Chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party from 1962 to 1967.
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Colleen Garry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Colleen M. Garry is an American politician who represents the 36th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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James Brett
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James T. Brett is an American former politician who is the current president and CEO of The New England Council. From 1981 until 1996, Brett was a Democratic Party member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Alice Peisch
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alice Hanlon Peisch is an American attorney and politician who has represented the 14th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives since 2003. She previously served as the Chair of the Joint Committee on Education from 2011 to 2023. She is currently serving on the House Committee on Ethics and the House Committee on Rules.
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Ann-Margaret Ferrante
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ann-Margaret Ferrante is an American legislator in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, representing the 5th Essex district, which consists of Gloucester, Rockport, and Essex. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 2008 after defeating incumbent representative Anthony Verga in the Democratic primary. Currently, she is the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means and sits on the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, House Committee on Operations, Facilities and Building Security, and the House Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling. She is also co-chair of the Tech Hub Caucus, which focuses on fostering growth of Massachusetts’ high-tech businesses and startups.
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James Arciero
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Arciero is an American politician. He is a state legislator serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and is a Democrat.
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Mike Dumont
- Enrolled in Suffolk University
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Michael Joseph Dumont is a retired American flag officer, naval aviator and vice admiral in the United States Navy who last served as deputy commander of United States Northern Command and Vice Commander, U.S. Element, North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Dumont served in the United States Army for five years as an aviator and paratrooper and later, he joined the United States Navy.
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Kevin J. Murphy
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Kevin J. Murphy is an American politician who served as city manager of Lowell, Massachusetts from 2014 to 2018 and from 1997 to 2014 was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Murphy is also an attorney and a member of the American Bar Association, Greater Lowell Bar Association, and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
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Timothy J. Toomey Jr
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Timothy J. Toomey Jr. was the Massachusetts State Representative for the 26th Middlesex District, which comprises East Cambridge and East Somerville, and a member of the Cambridge City Council. He served as a state representative from 1993 to 2016 and has served as a city councillor since 1990. Toomey has also served as a member of the Cambridge School Committee and vice mayor of Cambridge. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has run as a Democrat for the office of state representative; Cambridge City Council elections are, however, non-partisan.
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Anne M. Brennan
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Anne M. Brennan is a former acting United States General Counsel of the Navy. She served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of the Navy from 1986 to 2019. She retired in February 2019.
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William C. Galvin
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William C. Galvin is an American insurance broker and politician who represents the 6th Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the legislature in 1990.
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John P. Slattery
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John P. Slattery is an American former politician who represented the 12th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and was a Peabody, Massachusetts City Counclior from 1993 to 1994.
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Tom Sannicandro
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tom Sannicandro is an American politician and attorney. He is the founder of SpecialNeedsTrustsOnline.com, a non-profit website providing estate planning documents to families with children with special needs. Previously he served as director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges.
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Ronald MacKenzie
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ronald Conrad MacKenzie was an American attorney and Republican politician who served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1967 to 1977. He resigned following his conviction for extortion, conspiracy, and other related offenses.
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Reed V. Hillman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Reed V. Hillman is an American law enforcement officer and politician who was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts for the 2006 gubernatorial election in Massachusetts, as well as a former Massachusetts State Representative. He currently lives in Sturbridge, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
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Patricia McGovern
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Patricia McGovern is an attorney and former Democratic Massachusetts State Senator from Lawrence, Massachusetts. She was formerly the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Corporate and Community Affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Arthur Tobin
- Years
- 1930-.. (age 94)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Henry Tobin is an American lawyer and politician from Quincy, Massachusetts who currently serves as clerk magistrate of the Quincy District Court.
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Michael A. Costello
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael A. Costello is a former State Representative for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, who represented the first district of Essex County, Massachusetts. Costello graduated from Salem State University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science and from Suffolk University Law School with his Juris Doctor in 1996. Costello served in the House from 2003 to 2014.
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Paul J. Sheehy
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Paul Joseph Sheehy was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate and was City Manager of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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John James McGlynn
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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John James "Jack" McGlynn was an American politician who served as mayor of Medford, Massachusetts, and as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Albert Herren
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Albert Herren is an American politician who represented the 6th Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1985 to 1997.
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James H. Fagan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James H. "Jim" Fagan is an American attorney and politician who represented the 3rd Bristol District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011.
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Sean Curran
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 47)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sean Curran is an American politician who represented the 9th Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015. After six terms he declined to seek re-election; his term will end January 7, 2015.
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Christopher Fallon
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher G. Fallon is an American politician who represented the 33rd Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2003 to 2015 and was a member of the Malden School Committee from 1989 to 1997. He declined to seek re-election in 2014 and was succeeded by Steven Ultrino.
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John H. Flood
- Years
- 1939-2016 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John H. "Jack" Flood was an American politician who was Sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts from 1996 to 1999 and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1981 to 1991.
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George Fingold
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Fingold was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1958.
