Thomas Menino

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Thomas Menino (2004)

Thomas Michael Menino (* 27. December 1942 in Boston , Massachusetts ; † 30th October 2014 ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and from 1993 to 2014 Mayor of Boston.

Life

Menino was born in Readville , a part of the Boston borough of Hyde Park , and attended Chamberlayne Junior College and the University of Massachusetts Boston .

He was on the Boston City Council for nine years when Raymond Flynn resigned mayor to become the United States Ambassador to the Vatican. Since Menino was chairman of the city council at the time, he was appointed as his acting successor. In the mayoral elections in November 1993, Menino was officially elected mayor of Boston with 64% of the vote. In the next elections in 1997 Menino had no opponent, so that he could take up his second term without a fight. In the 2001 election he beat his rival candidate Peggy Davis-Mullen with 76% of the vote. In his fourth term starting in 2005, he was the winner against Maura Hennigan with 64% of the vote. In 2009 he was elected for the fifth time. In the main elections he prevailed against his opponent Michael Flaherty with 57% of the vote. A year before the end of his fourth term and re-election, he was the longest-serving mayor in Boston history. After he had declared his decision not to run again in March 2013, Marty Walsh was elected as his successor in November of the same year .

After a decade-long run of mayors of Irish descent, Menino was the first in Boston to be of Italian descent. Menino died on October 30, 2014 in the city of his birth at the age of 71 of complications from cancer.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boston.com: State representative Martin J. Walsh, champion of unions, wins Boston mayoral race (November 6, 2013)
  2. ↑ Katherine Q. Seelye: Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Transformed Boston, Dies at 71. Obituary in The New York Times, October 30, 2014 (accessed October 30, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Menino, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menino, Thomas Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Mayor of Boston
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2014
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts