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Richard D. Gleason
Richard Daniel Gleason (September 22, 1896 – January 17, 1937) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and on the Boston City Council. Massachusetts House of Representatives Gleason was born on September 22, 1896, in Roxbury. He was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1922. On December 29, 1923, Gleason, his brother Joseph, and two others were charged with assault and battery on a former political supporter. Gleason was found guilty and sentenced to a month in the House of Correction. Later that year, Gleason and four others were charged with keeping and exposing liquor for sale at the Roxbury Democratic Club. Joseph Gleason pleaded guilty on May 2, 1924, and the charges against Richard Gleason and the three others were dropped. Gleason was defeated for reelection in 1924, but returned to the House in 1929. Boston City Council In 1929, Gleason was elected to the Boston City Council. During the 1930 Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxbury, Boston
Roxbury () is a Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood within the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Roxbury is a Municipal annexation in the United States, dissolved municipality and one of 23 official neighborhoods of Boston used by the city for neighborhood services coordination. The city states that Roxbury serves as the "heart of Black culture in Boston."Roxbury " City of Boston. Retrieved on May 2, 2009. Roxbury was one of the first towns founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, and became a city in 1846 before being annexed to Boston on January 5, 1868.Roxbury History . Part of Roxbury had become the town of West Roxbury on May 24, 1851, and additional land in Roxbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph McGrath (American Politician)
Joseph McGrath was an American politician who served as acting Mayor of Boston during the tenure of James Michael Curley, Chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston. Early life and career McGrath was born on December 20, 1890, in Boston. He graduated from Dorchester High School. While still in high school, McGrath became involved in local politics. At the age of 25 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He served four terms in the state legislature. In 1926 he married Doris E. Pearson of Dorchester. Outside politics McGrath worked in real estate. City Council In 1926, McGrath moved to local politics when he was elected to the Boston City Council. In 1931 and 1933 he was elected council president. As council president, McGrath served as acting mayor when James Michael Curley was out of the city. His longest stretch as acting Mayor occurred in 1931 when Curley went abroad for six weeks. Party chairman In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston City Council Members
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Convicted Of Assault
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation (later known as X-rays). * January 6 – Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope, for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. * January 7 – American culinary expert Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook. * January 12 – H. L. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. * January 17 – Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War: British redcoats enter the Ashanti capital, Kumasi, and Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I is deposed. * January 18 – The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. * January 28 – Walter Arnold, of East Peckham, Kent, England, is fined 1 shilling for speeding at (exceeding the contemporary speed limit of , the first spee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929–1930 Massachusetts Legislature
The 146th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1929 and 1930 during the governorship of Frank G. Allen Frank Gilman Allen (October 6, 1874October 9, 1950) was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He was president of a successful leathergoods business in Norwood, Massachusetts, and active in local and state politics. A Repub .... Gaspar G. Bacon served as president of the Senate and Leverett Saltonstall served as speaker of the House. Senators Representatives See also * 1930 Massachusetts gubernatorial election * 71st United States Congress * List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading * * External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:1929-1930 Massachusetts legislature Political history of Massachusetts Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts 1929 in Massachusetts massachusetts 1930 in Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923–1924 Massachusetts Legislature
The 143rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1923 and 1924 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Channing H. Cox. Frank G. Allen served as President of the Massachusetts Senate, president of the Senate and Benjamin Loring Young served as List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, speaker of the House. Senators Representatives See also * 1924 Massachusetts gubernatorial election * 68th United States Congress * List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading * * * External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:1923-1924 Massachusetts legislature Political history of Massachusetts Massachusetts legislative sessions 1923 U.S. legislative sessions, massachusetts 1923 in Massachusetts 1924 U.S. legislative sessions, massachusetts 1924 in Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deer Island Prison
The Deer Island Prison (–1991) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Once known as the Deer Island House of Industry and later, House of Correction, it held people convicted of drunkenness, illegal possession of drugs, disorderly conduct, larceny, and other crimes subject to relatively short-term sentencing. When it closed in 1991, some 1,500 inmates were being held at Deer Island. History House of Industry Originally, Deer Island's House of Industry (est. 1853) was an almshouse. It was one of several efforts on the island to accommodate poor children and adults. However, by around 1880 "without any change in the legal appellation 'House of Industry,' that term has come to be understood as designating its penal character." An article in the national '' Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine'' (1884) described the prisoners on Deer Island in the 1880s: "they in the main are from the lowest stratum of the cosmopolitan society of New England's me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 13th Suffolk District
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 13th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Quincy in Norfolk County and part of Boston in Suffolk County. Democrat Dan Hunt of Dorchester has represented the district since 2014. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's Norfolk and Plymouth district and 1st Suffolk district. Representatives * John Bent, circa 1858-1859 * Mellen Chamberlain, circa 1858-1859 * Edward J. Leary, circa 1888 * Thomas F. Sullivan, circa 1888 * Frank J. Burke, circa 1920 * Richard D. Gleason, 1923–1925 * Timothy J. Driscoll, circa 1920 * Abraham Herbert Kahalas, circa 1951 * Charles Kaplan, circa 1951 * Wilfred S. Mirsky, circa 1951 * Daniel W. Carney, 1963-1971 * James J. Craven, Jr., circa 1975 * Thomas Finneran, 1989–1995 * James T. Brett, 1995–1996 * Marty Walsh, April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts House Of Representatives' 9th Suffolk District
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 9th Suffolk district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of the city of Boston in Suffolk County. Democrat Jon Santiago of the South End has represented the district since 2019. The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Suffolk district and 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex district. Representatives * William Beck, circa 1858 * Franklin H. Sprague, circa 1858 * Thomas D. Morris, circa 1859 * Alexander H. Twombly, circa 1859 * Julius C. Chappelle, 1883-1886 * William O. Armstrong, circa 1888 * Henry Parkman, circa 1888 * William P. Hickey, circa 1920 * William J. Manning, circa 1920 * Laurence H. Banks, 1940s * William A. Glynn, circa 1951 * Robert H. Quinn, circa 1967 * Doris Bunte, circa 1975 * Melvin H. King * Byron Rushing * Jon Santiago, 2019-current See also * List of Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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