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  Dukakis, Michael S.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
<-  1998-01-01  
 
NameMichael S. Dukakis
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Brookline, Massachusetts , United States
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Born November 03, 1933 (90 years)
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Tags Caucasian - Greek - Married - Army - Christian - Greek Orthodox - Straight -
InfoFormer Presidential candidate, Governor of Massachusetts, and currently teaches at Northeastern University during Fall and Spring quarters and at UCLA during winter quarter.

Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on November 3, 1933. His parents, Panos and Euturpe (Boukis) Dukakis both emigrated from Greece to the mill cities of Lowell and Haverhill, Massachusetts before marrying and settling in the town of Brookline, just outside Boston.

Dukakis graduated from Brookline High School (1951), Swarthmore College (1955), and Harvard Law School (1960). He served for two years in the United States Army, sixteen months of which he spent with the Support Group to the UN Delegation to the Military Armistice commission in Munsan, Korea.

Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman of his town's Democratic organization in 1960 and won a seat in the Massachusetts legislature in 1962. He served four terms as a legislator, winning re-election by an increasing margin each time he ran.

In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Lieutenant- Governor and the running mate of Boston Mayor Kevin White in that year's gubernatorial race which they lost to Republicans Frank Sargeant and Donald Dwight. Dukakis won his party's nomination for governor in 1974 and beat Sargeant decisively in November of that year.

He inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. But the effort took its toll, and Dukakis was defeated in the Democratic Primary in 1978 by Edward King.

Dukakis came back to defeat King in 1982 and was re-elected to an unprecedented third four-year term in 1986 by one of the largest margins in history. In 1986 his colleagues in the National Governors Association voted him the most effective governor in the Nation.

Dukakis won the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1988 but was defeated by George Bush. Soon thereafter, he announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election as governor and served his final two years as governor at a time of increasing financial and economic distress in Massachusetts and the Northeast.

After leaving office in January 1991, Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, spent five weeks in Australia as guests of the city of Melbourne and three months at the University of Hawaii where Dukakis was a visiting professor in the political science department and at the School of Public Health. While at the University of Hawaii, he taught courses in political leadership and health policy and led a series of public forums on the reform of the nation's health care system. Since then, there has been increasing public interest in Hawaii's first-in-the nation universal health insurance system and the lessons that can be learned from it as the nation debates the future of health care in America.

Since June of 1991, Dukakis has been a visiting professor at Northeastern University's political science department and has also taught in the senior executive program for State and Local managers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has also taught for the past three years at Florida Atlantic University.

His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts. He has authored articles on the subject for the Journal of American Health Policy (1992); the Yale Law and Policy Review (1992); the New England Journal of Medicine (1992); and Compensation and Benefits Management (1993). In addition, he co-taught with Professor Rochefort a graduate seminar in national health policy reform that included a series of public forums and an all-day conference that culminated in the publication of Insuring American Health for the Year 2000, a Northeastern University publication that has been distributed widely to health policy makers, legislators and others.

Kitty and Mike Dukakis have three children, John, Andrea, and Kara, and are the proud grandparents of Alexandra Jane Dukakis, age 5.

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Aug 21, 2007 03:00pm Interview Dukakis, Once Burned, Refuses to Be Optimistic About 2008  Article RP 
Dec 05, 2005 10:30am General 1988 presidential nominee Dukakis talks like candidate  Article Thomas Walker 
Dec 04, 2004 12:00am General Dukakis to Dems: Get back to ‘roots’  Article COSDem 
Jul 12, 2004 12:00am News Democrats Grapple With Dukakis' Legacy  Article Monsieur 

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FAMILY
Wife Kitty Dukakis Jun 21, 1963-
Daughter Andrea Dukakis 1965-
Daughter Kara Dukakis 1968-
Stepson John Dukakis 1958-

INFORMATION LINKS
Michael S. Dukakis Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 1988  Discuss
RACES
  12/19/1988 US President Lost 20.63% (-58.55%)
  11/08/1988 US Vice President Lost 0.19% (-79.00%)
  11/08/1988 US President National Vote Lost 45.65% (-7.73%)
  11/08/1988 GU US President Lost 39.86% (-18.99%)
  11/07/1988 Dixville Notch NH US President Lost 7.89% (-81.58%)
  07/21/1988 US President - D Convention Won 70.09% (+40.39%)
  07/01/1988 US President - D Primaries Won 42.46% (+13.34%)
  07/01/1988 US President - R Primaries Lost 0.00% (-67.90%)
  11/04/1986 MA Governor Won 68.75% (+37.55%)
  11/02/1982 MA Governor Won 59.46% (+22.90%)
  09/14/1982 MA Governor - D Primary Won 53.49% (+6.99%)
  09/19/1978 MA Governor - D Primary Lost 42.20% (-8.86%)
  11/05/1974 MA Governor Won 53.50% (+11.21%)
  09/10/1974 MA Governor - D Primary Won 57.66% (+15.33%)
  11/03/1970 MA Lt. Governor Lost 42.80% (-13.89%)
  09/15/1970 MA Lt. Governor - D Primary Won 46.03% (+21.56%)
  01/23/1969 MA Attorney General - Appointment Lost 0.77% (-70.00%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
  09/25/2009 MA US Senate - Appointment Lost 0.00% (-100.00%)
ENDORSEMENTS
MA US Senate - D Primary - Sep 01, 2020 D Edward J. Markey
MA US President - D Primary - Mar 03, 2020 D Elizabeth Warren
MA Governor - D Primary - Sep 04, 2018 D Setti D. Warren
US President - Popular Vote - Nov 08, 2016 D Hillary Clinton
MA US President - D Primary - Mar 01, 2016 D Hillary Clinton
San Francisco District Attorney - Nov 08, 2011 D David Onek
MA US Senate - Special D Primary - Dec 08, 2009 D Mike Capuano
CA Governor - D Primary - Jun 06, 2006 D Phil Angelides
MA US President - D Primary - Mar 07, 2000 D Al Gore
US President - D Primaries - Jul 01, 2000 D Al Gore
Methuen Mayor - Nov 02, 1999 D Sharon M. Pollard
MA US President - D Primary - Mar 13, 1984 DFL Walter F. "Fritz" Mondale
US President - D Primaries - Jul 01, 1984 DFL Walter F. "Fritz" Mondale