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In 1956 he was elected committee chairman. [7] He lost in 1957, but returned in 1959 for the first of six consecutive terms. [3] In 1962 and 1970 he was the committee chairman. [2] [8] He lost his bid for reelection in 1971, following an effort by the Boston Teachers Union to unseat him. [9]
In November 1949, Boston voters approved changes to municipal elections, including replacing the 22-person City Council (elected by wards) with a 9-person City Council (all elected at-large). The first such election was held in November 1951, for terms starting in January 1952. [8]
However, Hennigan had been the leading advocate of trying to implement integration on the School Committee. [3] His daughter Maura Hennigan was a member of the Boston City Council from 1982 through 2005, and a candidate for Mayor of Boston in November 2005. [4] Hennigan died on January 3, 2020, in Boston, Massachusetts, at age 92. [5]
The Massachusetts Democratic Party (MassDems) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts.It is chaired by Steve Kerrigan [2] and is the dominant party in the state, controlling all nine of the state's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, all six elected statewide offices including the governorship, and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Thomas Joseph Kenny (November 18, 1863 – May 17, 1926) was an American politician who served as a member of the Boston City Council and the Boston School Committee. He was runner up in the 1914 Boston mayoral election .
John J. McDonough is an American politician who served as a member of the Boston School Committee from 1966 to 1968 and again from 1972 to 1982. He was the Chairman/President of the School Committee in 1967, 1975, 1976, and 1980. [1]
Finnegan was a member of the Boston School Committee from 1975 to 1979 and served as its president from 1978 to 1979. [1] He was a candidate for Mayor of Boston in 1979, finishing fourth out of six candidates with 14.59% of the vote.
The Boston Committee of Correspondence, which usually gathered at the Liberty Tree in Boston Common. The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution.