Deval Patrick

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Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . He was the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015 . Patrick was the first African American to serve as governor of Massachusetts and the second elected African-American governor of the United States (two others ran without election). He ran for his party's candidacy in the 2020 presidential election.

Family, education and work

Against the opposition of his father, the saxophonist Pat Patrick , he attended the Milton Academy in Milton until 1974 and switched to Harvard College in 1978 , where he graduated with a BA. He then graduated from the Harvard Law School the Juris Doctor . After graduating, Deval worked for the United Nations in Africa for a year and was Assistant to the US Attorney General for civil rights issues under President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997 . He then worked as a lawyer and businessman in Massachusetts.

In 2019 Patrick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He is married to Diane Patrick and has lived in Milton since 1989. The couple have two daughters together.

Massachusetts Governor

In the gubernatorial election in Massachusetts on November 7, 2006 , he prevailed with 56 percent of the vote against his Republican rival Kerry Healey , who received 36 percent. He succeeded the no longer running Republican and later presidential candidate Mitt Romney . On January 4, 2007, Patrick was sworn in as governor of the state and quickly gained political stature throughout the US, but his approval ratings deteriorated significantly when the state budget fell into crisis during the course of his first term and he received unpopular tax increases totaling one billion US dollars Dollar prevailed.

In the gubernatorial election in November 2010 , in generally poor conditions for Democrats, he beat Republican Charlie Baker , who achieved 42 percent, with a vote of around 49 percent , and was thus confirmed for a second term as governor, which he took over in January 2011. After the resignation of US Senator John Kerry , who was appointed Secretary of State of the United States by President Obama in January 2013 , he appointed his former chief of staff, the African-American Mo Cowan , as the new Senator in his function as governor .

Patrick did not stand for re-election in the 2014 gubernatorial election. His second term ended on January 8, 2015 with the inauguration of Republican Charlie Baker, who won the 2014 election after losing to Patrick in 2010.

Bain Capital and Presidential Ambitions

After leaving the office of governor, Patrick moved to the financial investor Bain Capital in April 2015 , where he oversees projects with a social focus as a manager. Since then he has been much less visible to the public, but continues to maintain close and long-term contacts with US President Obama as well as with the Clinton family.

Patrick did not provide any clarity about his political future, but he was repeatedly named as a possible candidate for the US presidency in 2016 or as a future US federal attorney general . In July 2013, the previous chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, John E. Walsh , moved to the head of the Political Action Committee Patrick, which fueled speculation and urged him to deny the US presidency.

After media reported in August 2017 that Obama was trying to convince him to run in the 2020 presidential election, Patrick announced in March 2018 that he was not ruling out a candidacy. He had supported the Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones in his 2017 campaign in Alabama and appeared for various candidates of his party in the fall of 2018 . He decided against running for office in December 2018 and justified this with the "cruelty" of the existing electoral system, especially for relatives.

On November 11, 2019, he declared his readiness to run for office. On February 12, 2020, Patrick ended his campaign after falling well below one percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astead W. Herndon, Jonathan Martin, Matt Stevens: Deval Patrick Makes a Late Bid in the 2020 Presidential Campaign . In: The New York Times . November 14, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed November 17, 2019]).
  2. ^ Pierre Thomas: Deval Patrick and the 'Great Moral Imperative'; At Justice Dept., a Transformed Civil Rights Division Has Conservatives Crying 'Quota'. In: The Washington Post , October 26, 1994, at the beginning freely accessible online ( memento of the original from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  3. ^ Frank Phillips: Patrick Makes History. Milton Lawyer is First Black Gov. of mass. In: The Boston Globe , November 7, 2006.
  4. ^ A b Aaron Blake: Deval Patrick Steps into the Spotlight. In: The Washington Post , April 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ Sofia E. Groopman, Julie M. Zauzmer: Deval Patrick reelected Mass. Governor, Wins Cambridge and Boston. In: The Harvard Crimson , November 3, 2010.
  6. ↑ Frank Phillips: Patrick Picks 'Mo' Cowan as Interim US Senator. In: The Boston Globe , January 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ With Charlie Baker on the Job Hunt, GOP Chair Hints at 2014 Run. In: MassLive.com , December 20, 2010.
  8. ^ Former Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick Joins Bain Capital to Launch New Business Focused on Investments with Significant Social Impact. Press release. In: BainCapital.com , April 13, 2015; Andy Rosen: Deval Patrick revels in role developing Bain's social impact fund. In: The Boston Globe , July 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ Darren Sands: Deval Patrick: The Man Who Isn't Running For President. In: BuzzFeed , May 7, 2015.
  10. ^ Dan Ring: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Says He Will Not Run for President in 2016. In: MassLive.com , July 16, 2013.
  11. ^ Edward-Isaac Dovere: Obama's Inner Circle Is Urging Deval Patrick to Run. In: Politico , August 1, 2017; Michael Levenson: Deval Patrick plans to ramp up his political activity this year. In: The Boston Globe , April 13, 2018; Lauren Dezenski: Patrick plans 2020 decision by end of the year. In: Politico , July 4, 2018.
  12. ↑ Natasha Korecki, Kyle Cheney, Stephanie Murray: Deval Patrick bows out of 2020 presidential run. In: Politico , December 5, 2018; Stephanie Saul: Deval Patrick Won't Run in 2020, Citing 'Cruelty' of the Process. In: The New York Times , December 5, 2018.
  13. ^ Deval Patrick Mulls Entry Into Presidential Primary Race: Sources
  14. ↑ Dan Merica and Eric Bradner CNN: First on CNN: Deval Patrick ends 2020 presidential campaign. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Patrick, Deval
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patrick, Deval Laurdine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American governor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois