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  2. John Albion Andrew - Wikipedia

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    Profession. Lawyer. Signature. John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was elected in 1860 as the 25th Governor of Massachusetts, serving between 1861 and 1866, and led the state's contributions to the Union cause during the American Civil War (1861–1865). He was a ...

  3. Bill Weld - Wikipedia

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    Weld publicly endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the presidency on January 8, 2007; he was a co-chairman for Romney's campaign in New York State. On the same day that Weld endorsed Romney, Gov. and Mrs. Weld also raised $50,000 for Romney's exploratory committee. Weld personally made a donation of $2,100, the maximum allowed ...

  4. Paul A. Dever - Wikipedia

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    Paul Andrew Dever (January 15, 1903 – April 11, 1958) was an American Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts and was its youngest-ever Attorney General . Among his notable accomplishments was the construction of Boston’s circumferential highway Route 128, then called "Dever’s ...

  5. Brewster, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    25-07980. GNIS feature ID. 0618249. Website. www .brewster-ma .gov. Brewster / ˈbruːstər / is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Barnstable County being coextensive with Cape Cod. The population of Brewster was 10,318 at the 2020 census. [1] Initially settled in 1659, the Town of Brewster is named after Elder William ...

  6. William Shirley - Wikipedia

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    William Shirley. William Shirley (2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of the British American colonies of Massachusetts Bay and the Bahamas. He is best known for his role in organizing the successful capture of Louisbourg during King George's War, and for his role ...

  7. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .bls .gov. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ( BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. The BLS collects, processes, analyzes, and ...

  8. William F. Galvin - Wikipedia

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    Galvin was born and raised in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. [1] He attended Saint Mary's High School in Waltham, Massachusetts [2] and graduated in 1968. [3] Galvin graduated cum laude [4] from Boston College in 1972 [5] and received a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School [6] in 1976. [4]

  9. 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election - Wikipedia

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    The 1810 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 2, 1810. Incumbent Federalist Governor Christopher Gore was defeated by Democratic-Republican nominee Elbridge Gerry . Republicans cast Gore as an ostentatious British-loving Tory who wanted to restore the monarchy (his parents were Loyalists during the Revolution), and Gerry as a ...