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  Furcolo, Foster
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AffiliationDemocratic  
  1957-01-01  
 
NameFoster Furcolo
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Newton, Massachusetts , United States
EmailNone
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Born July 29, 1911
DiedJuly 05, 1995 (83 years)
ContributorJoshua L.
Last ModifedRBH
Apr 09, 2023 11:35pm
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InfoFURCOLO, John Foster, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in New Haven, Conn., July 29, 1911; graduated from New Haven High School, New Haven, Conn.; graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1933; LL.B., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1936; lawyer, private practice; United States Navy; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-September 30, 1952); Massachusetts state treasurer, 1952-1954; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1954; governor of Massachusetts, January 3, 1957-January 5, 1961; assistant district attorney, Middlesex County, Mass., 1967; chairman, United States Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Narcotics, 1969; administrative law judge, United States Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, 1975-1989; died on July 5, 1995, in Cambridge, Mass.; interment in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Mass.


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RACES
  09/13/1966 MA Attorney General - D Primary Lost 23.77% (-33.14%)
  09/13/1960 MA US Senate - D Primary Lost 39.00% (-9.33%)
  11/04/1958 MA Governor Won 56.19% (+13.09%)
  11/06/1956 MA Governor Won 52.76% (+5.89%)
  09/18/1956 MA Governor- D Primary Won 73.14% (+46.28%)
  11/02/1954 MA US Senate Lost 49.02% (-1.52%)
  09/14/1954 MA US Senate - D Primary Won 59.13% (+36.46%)
  11/04/1952 MA Treasurer Won 51.03% (+3.12%)
  09/16/1952 MA Treasurer - D Primary Won 39.30% (+19.20%)
  07/05/1952 MA Treasurer - Appointment Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/07/1950 MA District 2 Won 54.64% (+9.29%)
  11/02/1948 MA District 02 Won 54.87% (+9.73%)
  11/05/1946 MA District 02 Lost 48.58% (-2.84%)
  06/18/1946 MA District 2 - D Primary Won 28.28% (+5.44%)
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