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Norfolk County
Massachusetts

Politicians who were born in Norfolk County

Bellingham: Levi Cook, 1792 — John M. Thayer, 1820 — William Taylor Adams, 1822 — Lucius B. Darling, 1827    Braintree (part now in Quincy): John Adams, c.1735 — John Hancock, 1737 — John Quincy Adams, 1767    Braintree: Nelson Hayward, c.1800 — Caleb Stetson, 1801 — Edward C. Reynolds, 1856 — Raymond L. King, 1929    Brookline: Thomas A. Davis, 1798 — George S. Boutwell, 1818 — Lester W. Clark, 1854 — Joseph A. Conry, 1868 — Joshua L. Brooks, 1868 — John F. Cusick, 1869 — Donald M. Hill, 1877 — Mortimer Y. Ferris, 1881 — Ray Atherton, 1883 — Fletcher Dexter, 1885 — Leslie E. Knox, 1891 — Ruth C. Streeter, 1895 — Malcolm D. Haven, 1901 — Geoffrey Whitney Lewis, 1910 — John F. Kennedy, 1917 — Robert E. Waldron, 1920 — Galen L. Stone, 1921 — Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 1924 — Robert W. Baker, 1924 — Michael S. Dukakis, 1933 — Richard S. Cohen, 1937 — Timothy Seymour Black, 1953 — Brad Meltzer, c.1955    Canton: James Endicott, 1738 — Charles Endicott, 1822 — Frank W. Tucker, 1843 — Frank E. Kaley, 1856 — Ignatius A. Sullivan, 1867 — William P. Homans, Jr., c.1922    Dedham: Fisher Ames, 1758 — Benjamin T. Eames, 1818 — Waldo Colburn, 1824 — LeBaron B. Colt, 1846 — George F. Williams, 1852 — Frederic J. Stimson, 1855 — Tilton S. Bell, 1874    East Walpole, Walpole: Charles Sumner Bird, 1855 — Charles Sumner Bird, Jr., 1884 — Perkins Bass, 1912    East Weymouth, Weymouth: Wilbur T. Gracey, 1877    Foxboro: Horace Everett, 1779    Franklin: Theron Metcalf, 1784 — George Fisher, 1788 — Horace Mann, 1796 — Stephen H. Rhodes, 1825    Medfield: Shubael P. Adams, 1817 — John Brooks Fairbanks, 1822    Medway: Wales Adams, 1804 — George O. Fairbanks, 1815 — Albert E. Austin, 1877    Milton: Edward H. Robbins, 1758 — Roger Vose, 1763 — Zenas Crane, 1777 — John J. Gallagher, 1869 — W. Cameron Forbes, 1870 — J. Arthur Brooks, 1873 — Richard B. Wigglesworth, 1891 — Henry E. Stebbins, 1905 — William G. Saltonstall, 1905 — George Bush, 1924 — Richard J. Egan, 1936    Needham: Walter H. Garfield, 1840 — Horace A. Carter, 1869 — Samuel H. Wragg, 1882 — Peter A. DeFazio, 1947 — Phil Murphy, 1957    Needham (part now in Wellesley): Charles H. Matchett, 1843    Needham Heights, Needham: William H. Carter, 1864    North Weymouth, Weymouth: Patrick V. McNamara, 1894    Norwood: E. Knowlton Fogg, 1837 — William Ahearn, 1925    Quincy: Horace B. Sargent, 1821 — Albert Merritt, c.1842 — Brooks Adams, 1848 — Josiah Quincy, 1859 — Charles Francis Adams, 1866 — Jesse B. Baxter, 1872 — Joseph B. Grossman, 1892 — David V. Anderson, c.1900 — Richard Durant, 1918 — William D. Delahunt, 1941 — Robert A. Cerasoli, 1947 — James H. Maloney, 1948 — Charles A. Morse, 1957    Randolph: Seth Mann, 1860 — Jesse F. Stevens, 1869    Sharon: Bushrod Morse, 1832 — Charles Q. Tirrell, 1844 — John H. Lothrop, 1866    South Weymouth, Weymouth: George L. Barnes, 1879    Stoughton: Daniel Cony, 1752 — Henry L. Pierce, 1825    Stoughton (part now in Canton): John Bailey, 1786    Walpole: Caleb Ellis, 1767 — Warren R. Gilmore, 1898    Weymouth: Abigail Adams, c.1744 — William Cranch, 1769 — Samuel Francis Gove, 1822    Wrentham: Frederick David Ely, 1838 — Charles H. Blake, c.1862     See also Massachusetts birthplaces not assigned to counties.

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