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Michael D. Bissonnette is the former
mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilitie ...
of
Chicopee, Massachusetts Chicopee ( ) is a city located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 55,560, making it the second-largest city in western Massachuset ...
. Bissonnette was first elected mayor in a landslide in the November 2005 election after he defeated embattled mayor Richard Goyette, who has been arrested weeks prior on federal extortion charges. Bissonnette served as mayor from 2006 through 2013, but was unseated by Richard J. Kos, who had previously served as mayor, in the 2013 general election. After leaving the mayor's office, he served as interim DPW director for the Town of Greenfield from November 2014 until May 2015. He challenged Kos to a rematch in 2015 but was unsuccessful. He returned to his law practice shortly thereafter. In 2019 Kos announced he would not seek re-election and Bissonnette was one of several candidates to run for the seat. He was eliminated in the City's preliminary election in September of 2019. Bissonnette lives in Chicopee with his wife Erin. Chicopee is a city in
Western Massachusetts Western Massachusetts, known colloquially as "western Mass," is a region in Massachusetts, one of the six U.S. states that make up the New England region of the United States. Western Massachusetts has diverse topography; 22 colleges and univ ...
. As of the 2000
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, a total population is 54,653.


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21st-century mayors of places in Massachusetts Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mayors of Chicopee, Massachusetts Westfield State University alumni {{Massachusetts-mayor-stub