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Edward Joseph McCormack Jr. (August 29, 1923 – February 27, 1997), was an American attorney and politician from Massachusetts. He was most notable for serving as Massachusetts Attorney General from 1959 through 1963.
John Brendan McCormack (August 12, 1935 – September 21, 2021) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Manchester from 1998 until 2011.
John William McCormack (August 15, 1925 – November 11, 1987) was an American diver. He competed in the men's 10 metre platform event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. [1]
William J. McCormack (November 10, 1887 – July 19, 1965) was a successful New York City businessman of the first half of the twentieth century. McCormack was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to Great Famine immigrants from County Monaghan, Ireland. McCormack began life as a grocer's wagon-boy running errands along New York's West Side docks ...
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McCormack attended the John Andrew Grammar School through the eighth grade. [1] He then left school to help support his family, initially working for $3 a week (about $95 in 2021) as an errand boy for a brokerage firm. [5] McCormack and his brothers also managed a large newspaper delivery route for $11 a week (about $347 in 2021). [5]
McCormack served as chair of the Board of Visitors for Columbia Law School. In his law practice, he "devoted much of his time to the affairs of the late Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong, prominent inventor in the radio field." [1] Alfred McCormack died age 55 on January 12, 1956, of cancer at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut. [1] [2]
McCormack also bought Runyon Canyon in Hollywood in 1930 from Carman Runyon. [10] McCormack saw and liked the estate while there filming Song o' My Heart (1930), [11] an early all-talking, all-singing picture. McCormack used his salary for this movie to purchase the estate and built a mansion he called "San Patrizio", after Saint Patrick. [10]