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The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.
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]
The 2022 Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Incumbent Democrat William Galvin won re-election. Galvin has been Secretary since 1995. The last Republican to be elected to the position was Frederic Cook, in 1949. Only Cook has served a longer ...
Massachusetts State House in Boston The Governor's Council consists of eight councilors elected from districts every two years, as well as the lieutenant governor. The council provides for advice and consent for judicial appointments, appointment of certain public officials including notaries public and justices of the peace , pardons and ...
October 15, 1966. The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the state capitol and seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the Beacon Hill [3] [4] neighborhood of Boston. The building houses the Massachusetts General Court ( state legislature) and the offices ...
Michael J. Connolly. Michael Joseph Connolly (born April 20, 1947, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former politician who served as Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1979 to 1994. An attorney by profession, Connolly was first elected to public office in 1973 when he won a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Kevin Hagan White (September 25, 1929 – January 27, 2012) was an American politician best known for serving as the mayor of Boston for four terms from 1968 to 1984. He was first elected to the office at the age of 38. [1] [2] He presided as mayor during racially turbulent years in the late 1960s and 1970s, and the start of desegregation of ...
West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Education. Harvard University ( AB) Boston College ( JD) John Ronan Connolly [2] (born July 6, 1973) [3] is an American politician, former lawyer, and educator from Massachusetts. He served from 2008 to 2014 as an at-large member of the Boston City Council, [4] and was the runner-up in the 2013 Boston mayoral election.