The Political Graveyard: Massachusetts: Executive Councilors (original) (raw)

Members of Massachusetts Governor's Council, 1780-2008 (May be incomplete!)

• Blank district: Samuel Holten 1780-82Samuel Holten 1784Samuel Holten 1786Samuel Holten 1789-92Simon Frye 1790Samuel Holten 1795-96Jonathan Mason 1797-98Fisher Ames 1798-1800Elijah Brigham 1799-1800Elijah Brigham 1806William Widgery 1806-07Thomas Dwight 1808-09Joseph Allen 1815-18Ezekiel Whitman 1815-16Timothy Pickering 1817-18William P. Walker 1820Samuel C. Allen 1829-30Zenas Crane 1836-37Joseph Grinnell 1839-41Charles Hudson 1839-41Samuel L. Crocker 1849Z. M. Crane 1862-63Charles Endicott 1868-69Otis Norcross 1869Roland G. Usher 1870Rufus Smith Frost 1873-74John M. Raymond 1880Edward Howard Haskell 1882-85Frank D. Allen 1886-88Elijah A. Morse 1888Ashley B. Wright 1890-91William W. Davis 1899-1900Richard W. Irwin 1903-04Calvin D. Paige 1906-07Edward P. Barry 1907-09William F. Murray 1910Lewis R. Sullivan 1916-21John J. Sawtelle 1945Alfred C. Gaunt 1947-48Margaret M. Heckler 1963-66Thomas J. Lane 1965-70
• 1st District: David G. Pratt 1906Harry H. Williams 1919-22Edmond Cote 1931-36
• 2nd District: Sidney O. Bigney 1906Horace A. Carter 1919-22Joseph B. Grossman 1933-36
• 3rd District: Warren W. Rawson 1905-06William J. Foley 1921-22Frank A. Brooks 1935-36Endicott Peabody 1955-56
• 4th District: Michael J. Sullivan 1904-06Thomas J. Grady 1906John C. F. Slayton 1921-22William H. Dolben 1922Daniel H. Coakley 1933-36
• 5th District: Lewis H. Bartlett 1906James F. Ingraham 1919-22William G. Hennessey 1935-36
• 6th District: Alfred E. Cox 1906Charles S. Smith 1921-22James Joseph Brennan 1935-36Dorothy Kelly Gay 1993-98
• 7th District: William A. Lytle 1905-09John A. White 1921-22Pehr G. Holmes 1925-28Winfield A. Schuster 1932-36
• 8th District: John W. Wheeler 1905-06Francis W. Aldrich 1922J. Arthur Baker 1933-36

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

• 1904 Nov 8: Roland C. Nickerson (Rep), elected;Joseph R. Smith (Socialist), defeated;Herbert L. Chipman (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: David G. Pratt (Rep), elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: Frederick S. Hall (Rep), elected;Benjamin F. Tilley (Dem), defeated;Irvin M. Newcomb (Socialist), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: Sidney O. Bigney (Rep), elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: Warren W. Rawson (Rep), elected;George A. Sanderson (Dem), defeated;George Keefe (Socialist), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: Warren W. Rawson, elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: Michael J. Sullivan (Dem), elected;John S. Slater (Rep), defeated;Louis Login (Socialist), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: Michael J. Sullivan (Dem), elected.
• 1906 Jun 15: Michael J. Sullivan, died in office.
• 1904 Nov 8: George R. Jewett (Rep), elected;William C. Cuseck (Dem), defeated;Frank E. Hale (Socialist), defeated;Julius F. Rabardy (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: Lewis H. Bartlett, elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: Walter Scott Watson (Rep), elected;John F. O'Brien (Dem), defeated;John E. Brennan (Socialist), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: Alfred E. Cox (Rep), elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: William A. Lytle (Rep), elected;Henry L. Rice (Socialist), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: William A. Lytle (Rep), elected.
• 1904 Nov 8: John W. Wheeler (Rep), elected;Barte J. Griffin (Dem), defeated;Samuel F. Hall (Socialist), defeated;Ernest R. Knipe (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1905 Nov 7: John W. Wheeler (Rep), elected.
• 1922 Nov 7: Elwin T. Wright (Rep), elected;Thomas H. Buckley (Dem), defeated;Zoal Thibadeau (Socialist), defeated.William W. Ollendorff (Rep), elected;Augustus W. Perry (Dem), defeated.George E. Curran (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 1922 Jan 4: John C. F. Slayton, died in office.
• 1922 Nov 7: Charles L. Burrill (Rep), elected unopposed.Eugene B. Fraser (Rep), elected;Michael F. McGrath (Dem), defeated;George M. Webster (Socialist), defeated.Charles S. Smith (Rep), elected unopposed.John A. White (Rep), elected unopposed.Francis W. Aldrich (Rep), elected unopposed.
• 1932: Winfield A. Schuster, appointed.
• 1940: Joseph Lee (Dem), defeated.
• 1948 Nov 2: Joseph P. Clark, Jr. (Dem), elected;John S. Ames, Jr. (Rep), defeated.Clayton L. Havey (Rep), elected;Samuel G. Thorner (Dem), defeated.Otis M. Whitney (Rep), elected;Donald B. Falvey, Jr. (Dem), defeated.Patrick J. McDonough (Dem), elected;Arcoline R. Rizzacaa (Rep), defeated.Cornelius J. Twomey (Dem), elected;Alfred C. Gaunt (Rep), defeated.John F. Casey (Dem), elected;Victor A. Friend (Rep), defeated.John J. O'Brien (Dem), elected;Warren G. Harris (Rep), defeated.Edward G. Shea (Dem), elected;William R. Barry (Rep), defeated.
• 1954: Earl F. Dodge (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1958 Nov 4: Ernest C. Stasiun (Dem), elected;Frankland W. L. Miles (Rep), defeated.Abraham H. Kahalas (Dem), elected;John S. Bottomly (Rep), defeated.Edward J. Cronin (Dem), elected;Rudolph F. King (Rep), defeated.Patrick J. McDonough (Dem), elected unopposed.Augustus G. Means (Rep), elected;John J. Buckley (Dem), defeated.Joseph Ray Crimmins (Dem), elected;John P. Forte (Rep), defeated.Michael J. Favulli (Dem), elected;Quintin J. Cristy (Rep), defeated.Raymond F. Sullivan (Dem), elected;Eunice L. Mannheim (Rep), defeated;Thomas Maratea (Prohibition), defeated.
• 1992: Dorothy Kelly Gay (Dem), elected.
• 2004: Michael McCue (Rep), defeated.
• 2002 Nov 5: Carole A. Fiola (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Carole A. Fiola (Dem), nominated;Oliver P. Cipollini, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Carole A. Fiola (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Kelly A. Timilty (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Kelly A. Timilty (Dem), nominated;Robert L. Jubinville (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Kelly A. Timilty (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Marilyn M. Petitto Devaney (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Marilyn M. Petitto Devaney (Dem), nominated;John J. Doyle (Dem), defeated in primary;Thomas L. Walsh (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Marilyn M. Petitto Devaney (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Christopher A. Iannella, Jr. (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Christopher A. Iannella, Jr. (Dem), nominated;Stephen F. Flynn (Dem), defeated in primary;Robert L. Toomey, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Christopher A. Iannella, Jr. (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Mary-Ellen Manning (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Mary-Ellen Manning (Dem), nominated;Timothy P. Houten (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Mary-Ellen Manning (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Michael J. Callahan (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Michael J. Callahan (Dem), nominated;Roseann Trionfi-Mazzuchelli (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2008 Nov 4: Michael J. Callahan (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Dennis P. McManus (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Thomas J. Foley (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 2008 Nov 4: Thomas J. Foley (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2002 Nov 5: Edward M. O'Brien (Dem), elected unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Thomas T. Merrigan (Dem), nominated unopposed.
• 2008 Sep 16: Michael Franco (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 2008 Nov 4: Thomas T. Merrigan (Dem), elected;Michael Franco (Rep), defeated.

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