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Speaker Of The Massachusetts House Of Representatives
This is a list of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Speaker (politics), Speaker of the House presides over the Massachusetts House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House Resolution. As well as presiding over the body, the Speaker is also the chief leader, and controls the flow of legislation. Other House leaders, such as the majority leader, majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the House. The current house speaker is Ronald Mariano. Colonial period House of Deputies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Inter-Charter Period Second Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Massachusetts Provincial Congress of Deputies House of Representatives under the Constitution of Massachusetts, Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Mariano
Ronald Joseph Mariano (born October 31, 1946) is an American politician currently serving as the list of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat from Quincy, Massachusetts, Quincy, he was first elected to the House in a December 1991 special election. He was appointed assistant majority leader in February 2009 and majority leader in January 2011 by then-speaker Robert DeLeo (politician), Robert DeLeo, who he succeeded as speaker upon DeLeo's retirement in 2020. He represents the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 3rd Norfolk district, 3rd Norfolk district. Life and career Mariano was born and raised in Quincy, where he attended public school. He received his Bachelor of Science, B.S. from Northeastern University in Boston and his Master of Education, M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He became a teacher and was elected to the Quincy School C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the most populous city in the county, the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, fourth-largest in Massachusetts behind Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester, and Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield, and List of cities in New England by population, ninth-most populous in New England. The city was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, which was an important center of the Puritans, Puritan theology that was embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University, an Ivy League university founded in Cambridge in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lesley University, and Hult Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Savage (major)
Major Thomas Savage ( – February 14, 1682) was an English-born merchant, military officer and politician who thrice served as the speaker of the Massachusetts General Court. Early life Thomas Savage was born in Taunton, Somerset. He was reportedly the son of William Savage, a blacksmith whose father was possibly Sir John Savage, 1st Baronet. Confusion exists over Savage's parentage, with the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' stating that although "nothing definite can be established about his parentage", colonial administrator Edward Randolph described him as "a gentleman of very good family in England". On 9 January 1621, he began an apprenticeship at the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, a livery company in the English capital of London. 14 years later in 1635, Savage emigrated from England to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay onboard the merchant ship ''Planter''. Fellow passengers included Henry Vane the Younger, John Winthrop the Younger and Hugh Peter. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Johnson (Massachusetts)
Edward, Eddie or Ed Johnson may refer to: Politicians *Edward Johnson (founder of Woburn, MA) (1598–1672), colonial military officer and writer * Edward Johnson (mayor) (1767–1829), mayor of Baltimore * Edward A. Johnson (1860–1944), first African American elected to New York state legislature * Edward Johnson (British politician) (1834–1895), Member of Parliament for Exeter, 1880–1885 * Eddie Bernice Johnson (1934–2023), American politician * B. Ed Johnson (1914–1983), American businessman, broadcaster and politician from Georgia Cultural figures * Ed Johnson (broadcaster) (G. Edwin Johnson, died 2001), farm broadcaster from Delaware, Ohio, founder of Agri Broadcasting Network *Edward Johnson (tenor) (1878–1959), Canadian tenor and manager of the Metropolitan Opera * Edward Johnson (composer) (1572–1601), English composer *Teddy Johnson (1920–2018), English entertainer, see Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson * Eddie Johnson (musician) (1920–2010), American jazz mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River (Springfield, Massachusetts), Mill River. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, third most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the fourth most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester, and Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston), had a population of 699,162 in 2020. Springfield was founded in 1636, the first Springfield (toponym), Springfield in the New World. In the late 1700s, during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Atherton
Major-General Humphrey Atherton (c. 1607 – September 16, 1661), an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, held the highest military rank in colonial New England.Adams, William Frederick, William Richard Cutter. ''Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts'', Volume 4. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 1910. pp. 2646–2647Pope, Charles Henry. ''The History of the Dorchester Pope Family'', 1634–1888. Published by the author, 1888. p. 322 He first appeared in the records of Dorchester on March 18, 1637 and made freeman May 2, 1638. He became a representative in the General Court in 1638 and 1639–41. In 1653, he was Speaker of the House, representing Springfield, Massachusetts. He was chosen assistant governor, a member of the lower house of the General Court who also served as magistrate in the judiciary of colonial government,Drake, Samuel Adams. The History of Middlesex County Massachusetts. Estes and Lauriat. 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Gookin
Danyell "Daniel" Gookin (1612 – 19 March 1687) was a Munster colonist, settler of Virginia and Massachusetts, and a writer on the subject of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians. Early life He was born, perhaps in County Cork, Ireland, in the latter part of 1612, the first son of Daniel Gookin of Kent, County Kent and County Cork and his wife, Mary Byrd. He was baptized 6 December 1612 at the church of St Augustine the Less Church, Bristol, St Augustine the Less in Bristol. By 1616 his father was living in Carrigaline, Ireland, where Gookin probably spent his childhood, later being sent for education to England. On 1 February 1630/1, shortly after his eighteenth birthday, living at his father's plantation in Virginia, he was indentured to Thomas Addison, second manager of the Marie's Mount plantation. On Addison's retirement, he granted Daniel of land. No record of Gookin's first marriage has been found; on 11 November 1639 a license was granted for the marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 13,785 at the 2020 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island. A residential community with a vibrant tourism industry, the town is famous for its clams, celebrated annually at the Ipswich Chowderfest, and for Crane Beach, a barrier beach near the Crane estate. Ipswich was incorporated as a town in 1634. History Ipswich was founded by John Winthrop the Younger, son of John Winthrop, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and its first governor, elected in England in 1629. Several hundred colonists sailed from England in 1630 in a fleet of 11 ships, including Winthrop's flagship, the '' Arbella''. Investigating the region of Salem and Cape Ann, they entertained aboard the ''Arbella'' for a day, June 12, 1630, a native chief of the lands to the north, Chief Masconomet. The event was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Denison (colonist)
Major-General Daniel Denison (September 20, 1682) was an English-born military officer and politician who spent the majority of his life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Early life He was the son of William Denison, an early settler of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He arrived in Roxbury with his parents in 1631, likely with the "apostle" Puritan Minister John Eliot, on the ship Lyon. Daniel Denison moved away in 1633 to become one of the first settlers of Cambridge. He married Patience Dudley, the daughter of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley. He became a freeman of Cambridge on April 1, 1634, and served on the first Constable's committee to execute land allocation in the establishment of Cambridge (so ordered Feb. 3, 1634). He moved to Ipswich in 1635 to take up leadership responsibilities in the defense of the colony, and to develop a career in governance. Career In Ipswich he was elected deputy to the Massachusetts General Court in 1635–1637 and from 1640 to 1652. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlestown, Massachusetts
Charlestown is the oldest Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Also called Mishawum by the Massachusett, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves (engineer), Thomas Graves, one of its earliest settlers, during the reign of Charles I of England. It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Charlestown became a city in 1848 and was annexed by Boston on January 5, 1874. With that, it also switched from Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, to which it had belonged since 1643, to Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Suffolk County. It has had a substantial Irish Americans, Irish-American population since the migration of Irish people during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s. Since the late 1980s, the neighborho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Russell (Massachusetts)
Richard Russell may refer to: Politics * Richard M. Russell (1891–1977), American politician, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts * Richard Russell Jr. (1897–1971), governor and U.S. Senator from Georgia * R. J. Russell (Richard John Russell, 1872–1943), British dental surgeon and Liberal politician * Richard Russell (MP for Dunwich), Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunwich, 1420–1427 * Richard Russell (MP for City of York) (died 1435), MP for City of York Sports * Richard Russell (rugby union) (1879–1960), English rugby union footballer * Richard Russell (rugby league) (born 1967), English rugby league footballer * Dick Russell (footballer) (1922–1974), Australian rules footballer for Port Adelaide * Richard Russell (tennis) (1945–2025), Jamaican tennis player Other * Richard Russell (bishop) (ca. 1630–1693), English bishop of Portalegre and Viseu in Portugal * Richard Russell (doctor) (1687–1759), English doctor from the 18th century * Richard Russell Sr. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 United States census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the Medford and Somerville border. History Indigenous history Native Americans inhabited the area that would become Medford for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas. At the time of European contact and exploration, Medford was the winter home of the Naumkeag people, who farmed corn and created fishing weirs at multiple sites along the Mystic River. Naumkeag sachem Nanepashemet was killed and buried at his fortification in present-day Medford during a war with the Tarrantines in 1619. The contact period introduced several European infectious diseases which would decimate native populations in virgin soil epidemics, including a smallpox epidemic which in 1633 killed Nanepashemet's sons, sachems Montowompate and Wonohaquaham. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
