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Governor of Massachusetts
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.
Part the Second, Chapter II, Section I, Article I of the Massachusetts Constitution reads,
The Governor of Massachusetts...
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Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Thomas Gerry (pronounced /ˈɡɛri/) (July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814) was an American statesman and diplomat. As a Democratic-Republican he was selected as the fifth Vice President of the United States of America, serving under James...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1744
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 1814 (age 70 years)
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Caleb Strong
Caleb Strong (January 9, 1745 - November 7, 1819) was Massachusetts lawyer and politician who served as the governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816.
He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. During the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1745
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1819 (age 74 years)
Increase Sumner
Increase Sumner (November 27, 1746 – June 7, 1799) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the first Federalist governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799.
Increase Sumner was born on 27 November, 1746 in Roxbury, Massachusetts...
Date of birth:
- Nov 27, 1746
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1799 (age 52 years)
Moses Gill
Moses Gill (January 18, 1734 – May 20, 1800) was a U.S. political figure.
He was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1794 until his death. When Governor Increase Sumner died on June 7, 1799, he became Acting Governor. By law, he retained the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1734
Date of death:
- May 20, 1800 (age 66 years)
James Sullivan
James Sullivan (April 22, 1744, Berwick, Maine – December 10, 1808) was a U.S. political figure.
For his services as a lawyer defending land claims in York County, Maine, in 1773 Sullivan was offered a portion within the tract. He accepted, and the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1744
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1808 (age 64 years)
Party:
Levi Lincoln, Sr.
Levi Lincoln, Sr. (May 15, 1749–April 14, 1820) was an American revolutionary and statesman who served as a Minuteman at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a state legislator in Massachusetts, a participant in Massachusetts' state...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1749
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1820 (age 70 years)
Party:
Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore (September 21, 1758 – March 1, 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat.
Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1758
Date of death:
- Mar 1, 1827 (age 68 years)
Party:
John Brooks
John Brooks (May 4, 1752 – March 1, 1825) was Governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823; he was the last significant Federalist elected official in office in the United States.
Before entering public life, John Brooks had established careers in...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1752
Date of death:
- Mar 1, 1825 (age 72 years)
Party:
William Eustis
William Eustis (June 21, 1753 – February 6, 1825) was an early American statesman.
He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1772. He studied medicine...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1753
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1825 (age 71 years)
Party:
Marcus Morton
Marcus Morton (February 19, 1784 – February 6, 1864) was a lawyer, jurist, and politician from Taunton, Massachusetts. He represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and served two terms as Governor of Massachusetts, as...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1784
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1864 (age 79 years)
John Davis
John Davis (January 13, 1787 – April 19, 1854) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician.
John Davis was born on January 13, 1787 in Northborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1812, where he was one of the four founding...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1787
Date of death:
- Apr 19, 1854 (age 67 years)
Party:
Samuel Turell Armstrong
Samuel Turell Armstrong (April 29, 1784 – March 26, 1850) was a U.S. political figure. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a bookseller in Boston, and among other works published a stereotype edition of Scott's family Bible, which was...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1784
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1850 (age 65 years)
Edward Everett
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1794
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 1865 (age 70 years)
Party:
George N. Briggs
George Nixon Briggs (April 12, 1796 – September 11, 1861) was a member of the Whig Party and seven-term Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, serving from 1844 to 1851.
He was born in Adams, Massachusetts on April 12, 1796. His parents were...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1796
Date of death:
- Sep 11, 1861 (age 65 years)
Party:
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (June 5, 1805 – February 27, 1850) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.
Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia. Adams was self-taught and moved to Arkansas in 1835. Adams became a planter and became active in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1805
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1850 (age 44 years)
Party:
John H. Clifford
John H. Clifford (1809–1876), U.S. political figure, was Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a single term, from 1853 to 1854. Serving as Attorney General from 1849-53, he faced Henry W. Bishop (Democrat) and Horace Mann (Free Soil) in...
Date of birth:
- 1809
Date of death:
- 1876 (age 67 years)
Party:
Emory Washburn
Emory Washburn (February 14, 1800 – March 18, 1877) was a United States political figure. Born in 1800 in Leicester, Massachusetts, Washburn was the Governor of Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855. He was elected as a member of the United States Whig...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1800
Date of death:
- Mar 18, 1877 (age 77 years)
Party:
Henry J. Gardner
Henry Joseph Gardner (June 14, 1819 – July 21, 1892) was the Governor of Massachusetts from 1855–1858. Gardner was the candidate of the Know-Nothing movement, and was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know-Nothing candidates in the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1819
Date of death:
- Jul 21, 1892 (age 73 years)
Party:
Nathaniel Prentice Banks
Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician and soldier, served as Governor of Massachusetts, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Union general during the American Civil...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1816
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 1894 (age 78 years)
John Albion Andrew
John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the Governor of Massachusetts between 1861 and 1866 during the tumultuous American Civil War. He was a guiding force behind the creation of some of the...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1818
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1867 (age 49 years)
Party:
Alexander H. Bullock
Alexander Hamilton Bullock (March 2, 1816 – January 17, 1882) was Governor of Massachusetts from 1866 to 1869 and helped create the New England Emigrant Aid Society in 1855.
Bullock graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and from Harvard Law School...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1816
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1882 (age 65 years)
Party:
William Claflin
William Claflin (March 6, 1818 – January 5, 1905) was an industrialist and philanthropist who served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1869-1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877-1881.
Born in 1818 in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1818
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1905 (age 86 years)
Party:
George S. Boutwell
George Sewall Boutwell (January 28, 1818 – February 27, 1905) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Ulysses S. Grant, Governor of Massachusetts, a Senator and Representative from Massachusetts and the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1818
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 1905 (age 87 years)
Party:
William B. Washburn
William Barrett Washburn (January 31, 1820–October 5, 1887) was an American politician from Massachusetts, serving in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts. Born in 1820 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, he was the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1820
Date of death:
- Oct 5, 1887 (age 67 years)
Party:
Thomas Talbot
Thomas Talbot (September 7, 1818 – October 6, 1886) was a governor of Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge, New York, and grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, attending public school and later working there in a textile mill.
Talbot served many...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1818
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1886 (age 68 years)
Party:
William Gaston
William Gaston (1820-1894) was Governor of Massachusetts in 1875-1876.
William Gaston had established a successful legal practice in the City of Roxbury, Massachusetts before entering politics. He served as a Representative in the State Legislature ...
Date of birth:
- 1820
Date of death:
- 1894 (age 74 years)
Party:
Alexander H. Rice
Alexander Hamilton Rice (August 30, 1818 – July 22, 1895) was Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1856-1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and the Governor of Massachusetts from 1876–78.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Thomas...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1818
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1895 (age 76 years)
Party:
John Davis Long
John Davis Long (October 27, 1838 – August 28, 1915) was a U.S. political figure. He served as Governor of Massachusetts between 1880 and 1883. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1902.
Born in Buckfield, Maine to Zadoc Long,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1838
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 1915 (age 76 years)
Party:
Benjamin Franklin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as governor of Massachusetts.
During the American Civil...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1818
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1893 (age 74 years)
George D. Robinson
George Dexter Robinson (born George Washington Robinson) (January 20, 1834–February 22, 1896) was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. He attended Lexington Academy and Hopkins Classical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1834
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1896 (age 62 years)
Party:
Oliver Ames
Oliver Ames (February 4, 1831 – October 22, 1895) was a U.S. political figure. He was a governor of Massachusetts (1887 - 1890). He was the son of Oakes Ames (1804-1873), a congressman who was impeached in the Credit Mobilier scandal.
Ames was born...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1831
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1895 (age 64 years)
Party:
John Q. A. Brackett
John Quincy Adams Brackett (June 8, 1842 – April 6, 1918) was born in Bradford, New Hampshire to Ambrose S. Brackett and Nancy (Brown) Brackett. He was a 1865 graduate of Harvard College and an 1868 graduate of Harvard Law School and a lawyer by...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1842
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1918 (age 75 years)
Party:
William Russell
William Eustis Russell (January 6, 1857 - July 16, 1896) was a U.S. political figure. He served as Democratic governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894, becoming the states youngest ever elected Governor (age 34).
Russell was born in Cambridge...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1857
Date of death:
- Jul 16, 1896 (age 39 years)
Party:
Frederic T. Greenhalge
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (born Frederic Thomas Greenhalgh) (July 19, 1842 – March 5, 1896) was born in Clitheroe, England and immigrated with his parents to the United States in early childhood. His father William was a cloth printer and worked...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1842
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1896 (age 53 years)
Party:
Roger Wolcott
Roger Wolcott (September 2, 1847 – December 21, 1900) was the son of Joshua Huntington and Cornelia (Frothingham) and brother of Huntington Frothingham. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He was a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1847
Date of death:
- Dec 21, 1900 (age 53 years)
Party:
Winthrop M. Crane
Winthrop Murray Crane (April 23, 1853 – October 2, 1920) was a U.S. political figure. He served as governor of Massachusetts between 1900 and 1903. He also served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1904 until 1913. He was a...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1853
Date of death:
- Oct 2, 1920 (age 67 years)
Party:
John L. Bates
John Lewis Bates (September 18, 1859 – June 8, 1946) was born in North Easton, Massachusetts to Rev. Lewis Benton Bates, a Methodist minister, and Louisa D. (Field) Bates. He attended public school in New Bedford, Chelsea, Taunton, and eventually...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1859
Date of death:
- Jun 8, 1946 (age 86 years)
Party:
William Lewis Douglas
William Lewis Douglas (August 22, 1845 – September 17, 1924) was a U.S. political figure. He served as governor of Massachusetts from 1905 until 1906.
There was little in the first thirty years of William L. Douglas' life to suggest he was destined...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1845
Date of death:
- Sep 17, 1924 (age 79 years)
Party:
Curtis Guild, Jr.
Curtis Guild, Jr. (February 2, 1860 - April 6, 1915) was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts in the United States. He served from 1906 to 1909.
Curtis Guild, Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 2, 1860 to a prominent family involved...
Date of birth:
- Feb 2, 1860
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1915 (age 55 years)
Party:
John Hancock
John Hancock (January 23, 1737 – October 8, 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts....
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1737
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1793 (age 56 years)
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin (August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1726
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1790 (age 64 years)
Thomas Cushing
Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776, and the first Lt. Governor of the state from...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1725
Date of death:
- 1788 (age 62 years)
Ebenezer Sumner Draper
Ebenezer Sumner Draper (June 17, 1858 – April 9, 1914) was a U.S. political figure. He served as Governor of Massachusetts between 1909 and 1911. Like Curtis Guild, Jr., Ebenezer Draper was forged by his family's business. His father, George Draper...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1858
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1914 (age 55 years)
Party:
Eugene Foss
Eugene Noble Foss, (September 24, 1858-September 13, 1939) was an American Representative and governor from Massachusetts, as well as brother of George Edmund Foss.
Born in West Berkshire, near St. Albans, Vermont, he attended the public schools,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1858
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1939 (age 81 years)
Party:
David I. Walsh
David Ignatius Walsh (November 11, 1872 - June 11, 1947) was a United States politician from Massachusetts. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Walsh was born in Leominster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, attending the public schools there...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1872
Date of death:
- Jun 11, 1947 (age 74 years)
Party:
Samuel W. McCall
Samuel Walker McCall (February 28, 1851 – November 4, 1923) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Massachusetts. He was born in East Providence Township, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1851. He spent his early...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1851
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1923 (age 72 years)
Party:
Channing H. Cox
Channing Harris Cox (October 28, 1879 – August 20, 1968) was a Massachusetts Republican politician and Governor born in Manchester, New Hampshire. Channing Cox served as Lieutenant Governor to Calvin Coolidge and continued his policies after...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1879
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1968 (age 88 years)
Party:
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1872
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1933 (age 60 years)
Party:
Alvan T. Fuller
Alvan Tufts Fuller (February 27, 1878 – April 30, 1958) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on February 27, 1878. He attended the public schools, and engaged in the bicycle business. Fuller was founder and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1878
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1958 (age 80 years)
Party:
Frank G. Allen
Frank G. Allen (October 6, 1874 – October 5, 1950) was a Governor of Massachusetts.
Allen was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on October 6, 1874. A businessman and executive with the Winslow Brothers & Smith Company from 1893, he rose to become the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 5, 1950 (age 76 years)
Party:
Joseph B. Ely
Joseph Buell Ely (February 22, 1881 – June 13, 1956) was the 52nd governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Joseph B. Ely graduated from Williams College in 1902, before earning a degree from Harvard Law School...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1881
Date of death:
- Jun 13, 1956 (age 75 years)
Party:
James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874-November 12, 1958) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, and as Governor of Massachusetts.
Curley was born to immigrants...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1874
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1958 (age 84 years)
Party:
Charles F. Hurley
Charles Francis Hurley (November 24, 1893 – March 24, 1946) was a governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
1937-1939 Governor Charles Hurley's administration increased the regulation of labor practices and emphasized individual rights. Hurley...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1893
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1946 (age 52 years)
Party:
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892–June 17, 1979) was an American Republican politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts (1939–1945) and as a United States Senator (1945–1967).
Saltonstall was born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1892
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1979 (age 86 years)
Party:
Maurice J. Tobin
Maurice Joseph Tobin (May 22, 1901 – July 19, 1953) was a Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of Labor.
Tobin was born in Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts to James Tobin, a carpenter,...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1901
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1953 (age 52 years)
Party:
Robert F. Bradford
Robert Fiske Bradford (December 15, 1902 – March 18, 1983) was an American politician who served one term as Governor of Massachusetts, from 1947 to 1949.
Bradford was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The scion of an old traditional New England Yankee...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1902
Date of death:
- Mar 18, 1983 (age 80 years)
Party:
Paul A. Dever
Paul Andrew Dever (January 15, 1903 – April 11, 1958) was a Democratic politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the 58th Governor of Massachusetts.
He attended the Boston Latin School and worked as a shoe salesman and clerk to finance his...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1903
Date of death:
- Apr 11, 1958 (age 55 years)
Party:
Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956, and Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.
Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1895
Date of death:
- Dec 30, 1966 (age 71 years)
Party:
Foster Furcolo
John Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was a member of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of Massachusetts, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and in other government offices in Massachusetts.
Furcolo was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1911
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 1995 (age 83 years)
Party:
John A. Volpe
John Anthony Volpe (December 8, 1908 – November 11, 1994) was a Governor of Massachusetts and a U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
Volpe was born in 1908 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He was the son of Italian immigrants Vito and Filomena (Benedetto),...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1908
Date of death:
- Nov 11, 1994 (age 85 years)
