MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR BIOGRAPHIES

Massachusetts Governor Biographies:

Adams II, Samuel

Everett, Edward

Gerry I, Elbridge

Hancock, John

Winthrop I, John

Massachusetts Other Biographies:

Adams I, Charles Francis

Adams III, John Quincy

Adams II, John

Kennedy, Edward Moore (Ted)

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Kennedy, Robert Francis

King, Rufus

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Standish, Myles

Sumner II, Charles

Wilson, Henry

Massachusetts Governor Genealogies by Surname:

Colonial Governors of Plymouth Colony with Dates:

Carver, John 1620-1621

Bradford, William 1621-1633, 1635-1636, 1637-1638, 1639-1644, 1645-1657

Winslow, Edward 1633-1634, 1636-1637, 1644-1645

Prence, Thomas 1634-1635, 1638-1639, 1657-1673

Winslow, Josiah 1673-1680

Hinckley, Thomas 1681-1692

Colonial Governors of Massachusetts with Dates:

Conant, Roger (of Cape Ann) 1625-1626, (of Salem) 1627-1629

Cradock III, Matthew (absentee) 1629

Endicott, John 1629, 1644-1645, 1649-1650, 1651-1654, 1655-1665

Winthrop I, John 1629-1634, 1637-1640, 1642-1644, 1646-1649

Dudley, Thomas 1634-1635, 1640-1641, 1645-1646, 1650-1651

Haynes, John 1635-1636

Vane, Henry 1636-1637

Bellingham, Richard 1641-1642, 1654-1655, 1665-1672

Leverett, Sir John 1673-1679

Bradstreet, Simon 1679-1686, 1689-1692

Dudley , Joseph (President of New England) 1686; (Governor) 1702-15

Andros, Edmund 1686-1689

Phips, Sir William 1692-1694

Stoughton, William 1694-1699, 1700-1701

Coote, Richard 1699-1700

Tailer, William 1715-1716, 1730

Shute, Samuel 1716-1723

Dummer, William 1723-1728, 1729-1730

Burnet, William 1728-1729

Belcher, Jonathan 1730-1741

Shirley, William 1741-1745, 1753-1756

Phips, Spencer Bennett 1749-1753, 1756-1757

Pownall, Thomas 1757-1760

Hutchinson, Thomas 1760, 1771-1774

Bernard, Francis 1760-1770

Gage, Thomas 1774

State of Massachusetts Governors with Dates:

Hancock, John 1780-1785, 1787-1793

Cushing III, Thomas (Acting Governor) 1785

Bowdoin II, James 1785-1787

Adams, Samuel 1794-1797

Sumner, Increase 1797-1799

Dawes, Thomas, (president of council) 1799-1800

Strong II, Caleb 1800-1807, 1812-1816

Sullivan, James 1807-1808

Lincoln I, Levi 1808-1809

Gore, Christopher 1809-1810

Gerry, Elbridge 1810-1812

Brooks, John 1816-1823

Eustis, William 1823-1825

Morton I, Marcus 1825, 1840-1841, 1843-1844

Lincoln II, Levi 1825-1834

Davis, John 1834-1835, 1841-1843

Armstrong, Samuel Turrell 1835-1836

Everett, Edward 1836-1840

Briggs, George Nixon 1844-1851

Boutwell, George Sewell 1851-1853

Clifford, John Henry 1853-1854

Washburn, Emory 1854-1855

Gardner III, Henry Joseph 1855-1858

Banks II, Nathaniel Prentice 1858-1861

Andrew, John Albion 1861-1866

Bullock, Alexander Hamilton 1866-1869

Claflin, William 1869-1872

Washburn, William Barrett 1872-1874

Talbot, Thomas 1873-1875, 1879-1880

Gaston I, William 1875-1876

Rice, Alexander H. 1876-1879

Long, John Davis of MA 1880-1883

Butler, Benjamin Franklin 1883-1884

Robinson, George D. 1884-1887

Ames, Oliver 1887-1890

Brackett, John Quincy Adams 1890-1891

Russell, William Eustis 1891-1894

Greenhalge, Frederick Thomas 1894-1896

Wolcott, Roger 1897-1900

Crane, Winthrop Murray 1900-1903

Bates, John Lewis 1903-1905

Douglas II, William Lewis 1905-1906

Guild III, Curtis 1906-1909

Draper I, Eben Sumner 1909-1911

Foss, Eugene Noble 1911-1914

Walsh, David Ignatius 1914-1915

McCall, Samuel Walker 1916-1919

Coolidge, Calvin 1919-1921

Cox, Channing Harris 1921-1925

Fuller II, Alvan Tufts 1925-1929

Allen II, Frank Gilman 1929-1931

Ely, Joseph Buell 1931-1935

Curley, James Michael 1935-1937

Hurley, Charles Francis 1937-1939

Saltonstall, Leverett 1939-1945

Tobin, Maurice Joseph 1945-1947

Bradford, Robert Fiske 1947-1949

Dever, Paul Andrew 1949-1953

Herter, Christian Archibald 1953-1957

Furcolo, John Foster 1957-1961

Volpe, John Anthony 1961-1963, 1965-1969

Peabody, Endicott 1963-1965

Sargent III, Francis Williams 1971-1975

Dukakis, Michael Stanley 1975-1979, 1983-1990

King II, Edward Joseph 1979-1983

Weld, William Floyd 1991-1997

Cellucci III, Argeo Paul 1997-2001

Swift, Jane Maria 2001-2003

Romney, Willard Mitt 2003-2007

Patrick, Deval Laurdine 2007-at least 2011

U.S. Senators from Massachusetts, Genealogies by Surname, With Dates of Service:

Dalton, Tristram 1789-1791

Strong, Caleb 1789-1796

Cabot, George 1791-1796

Sedgwick I, Theodore 1796-1799

Goodhue II, Benjamin 1796-1800

Dexter III, Samuel 1799-1800

Foster, Dwight 1800-1803

Mason II, Jonathan 1800-1803

Adams III, John Quincy 1803-1808

Pickering II, Timothy 1801-1811

Lloyd II, James 1808-1813, 1822-1826

Varnum, Joseph Bradley 1811-1817

Gore, Christopher 1813-1816

Ashmun, Eli Porter 1816-1818

Otis, Harrison Gray 1817-1822

Mellen, Prentiss 1818-1820

Mills, Elijah Hunt 1820-1827

Silsbee II, Nathaniel 1826-1835

Webster, Daniel 1827-1841, 1845-1850

Davis I, John 1835-1841, 1845-1853

Bates I, Isaac Chapman 1841-1845

Choate, Rufus 1841-1845

Winthrop I, Robert Charles 1850-1851

Rantoul, Robert 1851

Sumner II, Charles 1851-1874

Everett, Edward 1853-1854

Rockwell, Julius 1854-1855

Wilson, Henry 1855-1873

Boutwell, George Sewell 1873-1877

Washburn, William Barrett 1874-1875

Dawes, Henry Laurens 1875-1893

Hoar, George Frisbie 1877-1904

Lodge, Henry Cabot 1893-1924

Crane, Winthrop Murray 1904-1913

Weeks, John Wingate 1913-1919

Walsh, David Ignatius 1919-1925, 1926-1947

Butler, William Morgan 1924-1926

Gillett, Frederick Huntington 1925-1931

Coolidge, Marcus Allen 1931-1937

Lodge, Henry Cabot 1937-1944, 1947-1953

Weeks, Charles Sinclair 1944

Saltonstall, Leverett 1945-1967

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 1953-1960

Smith, Benjamin Atwood 1960-1962

Kennedy, Edward Moore 1962-2009

Brooke III, Edward William 1967-1979

Tsongas, Paul Efthemios 1979-1985

Kerry, John Forbes 1985-at least 2011

Kirk II, Paul Grattan 2009-at least 2011

Massachusetts Other Genealogies:

Allen, Charles Herbert

Ames, Fisher

Bancroft, George

Bell, David Elliott

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz

Card II, Andrew Hill

Crowninshield, Benjamin Williams

Curtis V, Benjamin Robbins

Cushing, Caleb

Cushing, William

Dana, Francis

Dawes, Charles Dawes

Dearborn I, Henry

Devens II, Charles

Endicott II, William Crowninshield

Forbes II, William Cameron

Garrison, William Lloyd

Gorham II, Nathaniel

Gray II, Horace

Henshaw II, David

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood

Holmes II, Oliver Wendell

Holten, Samuel

Johnson II, Edward Crosby

Kendall, Amos

King, Rufus

Knox, Henry

Lovell, James

Martin II, Joseph William

Mather, Cotton

Mather, Increase

McCaffrey, Barry Richard

McCormack, John William

Miles, Nelson Appleton

Moody, William Henry

O'Brien III, Lawrence Francis Oliver I, Andrew

Olney, Richard

O'Neill II, Thomas Phillip "Tip"

Orszag, Peter Richard

Osgood, Samuel

O'Shaunessy (Heckler), Margaret

Otis, Elisha Graves

Otis II, James

Paine, Robert Treat

Randolph, Edward

Regan, Donald Thomas

Reich, Robert Bernard

Richardson, Elliott Lee

Richardson, William Adams

Standish, Myles

Story, Joseph

Summers, Lawrence Henry

Thayer, Eli

Train, Russell Errol

Ward I, Artemus

Warren III, Joseph

Whiting III, William Fairfield

Wood, Robert Coldwell

Massachusetts Genealogies by File Name

Adams-MA-1

Allen-MA-5

Allen-MA-6

Ames-MA-1

Andrew-MA-1

Armstrong-MA-1

Ashmun-MA-1

Bancroft-MA-1

Banks-MA-1

Bates-MA-1

Belcher-MA-1

Bell-MA-1

Bellingham-MA-1

Bernard-MA-1

Boutwell-MA-1

Bowdoin-MA-1

Brackett-MA-1

Bradford-MA-1

Bradstreet-MA-1

Brandeis-MA-1

Briggs-MA-1

Brooke-MA-1

Brooks-MA-1

Bullock-MA-1

Butler-MA-1

Butler-MA-2

Cabot-MA-1

Card-MA-1

Carver-MA-1

Cellucci-MA-1

Choate-MA-1

Claflin-MA-1

Clifford-MA-1

Colbath-Wilson-MA-1

Conant-MA-1

Coolidge-MA-1

Coolidge-MA-2

Coolidge-MA-3

Cox-MA-1

Cradock-MA-1

Crane-MA-1

Crowninshield-MA-1

Curley-MA-1

Curtis-MA-1

Cushing-MA-2

Cushing-MA-3

Cushing-MA-4

Dalton-MA-1

Dana-MA-1

Davis-MA-1

Dawes-MA-1

Dearborn-MA-1

Devens-MA-1

Dever-MA-1

Dexter-MA-1

Douglas-MA-1

Draper I-MA-1

Dudley-MA-1

Dudley-MA-2

Dukakis-MA-1

Dummer-MA-1

Ely-MA-1

Endicott-MA-1

Eustis-MA-1

Everett-MA-1

Forbes-MA-1

Foss-MA-1

Foster-MA-1

Fuller-MA-3

Furcolo-MA-1

Gage-MA-1

Gardner-MA-1

Gardner-MA-2

Gardner-MA-3

Garrison-MA-1

Gaston-MA-1

Gerry-MA-1

Gillett-MA-1

Goodhue-MA-1

Gore-MA-1

Gorham-MA-1

Gray-MA-1

Greenhalge-MA-1

Guild-MA-1

Hancock-MA-1

Henshaw-MA-1

Herter-MA-1

Hinckley-MA-1

Hoar-MA-1

Holmes-MA-1

Holten-MA-1

Hurley-MA-1

Hutchinson-MA-1

Jackson-MA-1

Johnson-MA-1

Kendall-MA-1

Kennedy-MA-1

Kerry-MA-1

King-MA-1

King-MA-3

Kirk-MA-1

Knox-MA-1

Lee-MA-1

Leverett-MA-1

Lincoln-MA-1

Lloyd-MA-1

Lodge-MA-1

Long-MA-1

Lovell-MA-1

Martin-MA-1

Mason-MA-1

Mather-MA-1

McCaffrey-MA-1

McCall-MA-1

McCormack-MA-1

Mellen-MA-1

Miles-MA-1

Mills-MA-1

Moody-MA-1

Morton-MA-1

O'Brien-MA-1

Oliver-MA-1

Olney-MA-1

O'Neill-MA-1

Orszag-MA-1

Osgood-MA-1

O'Shaunessy-MA-1

Otis-MA-1

Otis-MA-2

Paine-MA-1

Partridge-MA-1

Patrick-MA-1

Peabody-MA-1

Perkins-MA-1

Phips-MA-1

Pickering-MA-1

Pownall-MA-1

Prence-MA-1

Randolph-MA-1

Rantoul-MA-1

Regan-MA-1

Reich-MA-1

Rice-MA-1

Richardson-MA-1

Richardson-MA-2

Rockwell-MA-1

Russell-MA-1

Saltonstall-MA-1

Sargent-MA-1

Sedgwick-MA-1

Shirley-MA-1

Shute-MA-1

Silsbee-MA-1

Smith-MA-1

Standish-MA-1

Story-MA-1

Stoughton-MA-1

Strong-MA-1

Strong-MA-2

Sullivan-MA-1

Summers-MA-1

Sumner-MA-1

Sumner-MA-2

Swift-MA-1

Tailer-MA-1

Talbot-MA-1

Thayer-MA-1

Tobin-MA-1

Train-MA-1

Tsongas-MA-1

Vane-MA-1

Varnum-MA-1

Volpe-MA-1

Walsh-MA-1

Ward-MA-1

Warren-MA-1

Washburn-MA-1

Weeks-MA-1

Weld-MA-1

Whiting-MA-1

Winslow-MA-1

Winslow-MA-2

Winthrop-MA-1

Wolcott-MA-1

Wood-MA-1