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Massachusetts: Secretaries of State


Massachusetts Secretaries of State, 1836-1990 (May be incomplete!)
John Prescott Bigelow 1836- William Barron Calhoun 1848- William M. Olin 1892-1911 Frederic W. Cook 1921-48 Joseph D. Ward 1959-60 John F. X. Davoren 1967-74

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1922 Nov 7: Frederic W. Cook (Rep), elected; Charles H. McGlue (Dem), defeated; Albert S. Coolidge (Socialist), defeated; James Hayes (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1948 Nov 2: Edward J. Cronin (Dem), elected; Frederic W. Cook (Rep), defeated; Gote E. Palmquist (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1956: Earl F. Dodge (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1958 Nov 4: Edward J. Cronin (Dem), elected; Marion Curran Boch (Rep), defeated; Fred M. Ingersoll (Socialist Labor), defeated; Julia B. Kohler (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1960: Edward W. Brooke (Rep), defeated.
  • 1990: Barbara Ahern (Independent Hi-Tech), defeated.

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