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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 ...
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.
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 ...
John Jenkins (May 29, 1952 – September 30, 2020) was an American martial artist, motivational speaker, community organizer, and politician who served as the first African American Mayor of Lewiston, Maine from 1994 to 1998, a Member of the Maine Senate from 1996 to 1998 and the Mayor of Auburn, Maine from 2007 to 2009.
In 1929 he became the first Democrat to win the mayoralty in Somerville. [1] He was reelected in 1931 and was preparing to run again in 1933 until he was offered the position of United States Marshal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's patronage manager James Farley. [4] Murphy resigned as US Marshal in 1939. [5]
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.
West Somerville Baptist Church organized. [7] West Somerville Congregational Church organized. [7] Sprague & Hathaway Portrait Copying House established. [5] 1876 - Somerville Citizen newspaper begins publication. [13] 1886 - Third Universalist Church established. [14] 1890 Broadway Winter Hill Congregational Church built. North Packing Company ...
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 .