Marie-Louise Kehoe
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Marie-Louise Kehoe (born December 12, 1928) is a former member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into ...
. She was first elected in 1982 and was reelected in every election through 1992, after which she chose to step down. She also served for many years as a selectman in
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and was the grand marshal of the 2009
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.


Planning Board

Before becoming a state representative, Kehoe served on Dedham' Planning Board. At the 1972 Annual Town Meeting, the Library Trustees made a new pitch for two of the
Endicott Estate The Endicott Estate is a mansion built in the early twentieth century, located at 656 East Street in Dedham, Massachusetts “situated on a 15-acre panorama of lush green lawn that is punctuated by stately elm, spruce and weeping willow trees.†...
's 26 acres, including the garage. Town Meeting appropriated $68,000 to convert the garage to a branch library. The final cost was $71,000. The Planning Board rejected the Library Trustee's first proposal for a parking plan when Kehoe changed her vote. The vote delayed the awarding of the contract for the renovation of the Estate's garage into a library.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kehoe, Marie-Louise Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1928 births Living people Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen 20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court