Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Murphy was an unsuccessful candidate for the Massachusetts Senate in 1916 and the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1928. He was the Democratic nominee for mayor in 1921, 1923, 1925, and 1927, losing each time. [3] In 1929 he became the first Democrat to win the mayoralty in Somerville. [1]
John M. Webster: January 1922 – January 4, 1926 Republican: 19th Leon Martin Conwell: January 4, 1926 – January 6, 1930 Republican: 20th John J. Murphy: January 6, 1930 – January 1, 1934 Democratic: 21st James E. Hagan: January 1, 1934 – January 6, 1936 Democratic: 22nd Leslie E. Knox January 6, 1936 – January 3, 1938 Republican: 23rd ...
John Whipple Potter "J. W. P." Jenks (1819–1894) was an American school principal, zoologist, taxidermy collector, and museum curator. [1] He taught in the South for a few years before marrying into a prominent family and heading Pierce Academy in Middleborough, Massachusetts. After he retired from there he returned to his alma mater, Brown ...
Writers from Somerville, Massachusetts (17 P) Pages in category "People from Somerville, Massachusetts" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total.
Joseph Anthony Curtatone (born June 28, 1966) is an American politician from Somerville, Massachusetts who formerly served as the city's mayor from 2004 until 2022. [ 1 ] Early life and education
1983 - Somerville Community Access Television founded. [21] [22] 1984 - Davis (MBTA station) opens. 1985 - Alewife Linear Park established. 1987 Brickbottom Artists Association active. [23] Mixit Print Studio established. [24] Joseph P. Kennedy II becomes U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district. 1988 - Somerville ...
The first issue of the Somerville Journal was published December 8, 1870, by W. A. Greenough & Company, known for publishing directories. During the next few years the paper changed ownership several times, early owners including Russell H. Conwell, then a Somerville resident, and John A. Cummings, later mayor of the city.
John Adams Cummings (January 16, 1838 – January 6, 1887) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the fifth Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts. From 1872 to 1874 Cummings was the publisher of The Somerville Journal .