Francis Harvey "Frank" Duehay was a three-time mayor of

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and was most lately the chair of the board of trustees for the

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. He graduated from

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with a degree in English in 1955, a master's degree in the Teaching of English from Harvard University in 1958, and an

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in Educational Administration from Harvard in 1968.The Francis H. Duehay Collection Cambridge Room Cambridge Public Library
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Early life and career

Born in Washington, D.C., in late July 1933, the son of Francis Duehay and Olive Dennett, Duehay lived in Belmont and

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before moving to

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at age 8, where he grew up mostly in West Cambridge with his mother, an administrator at the First Parish in Cambridge, and his stepfather, Moncure Burke Berg, a patent attorney.''Boston Globe'' obituary article
/ref> Duehay "served in the U.S. Navy from 1955–1957, taught English at Belmont Senior High School in

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from 1958–1959, and occupied several different positions at Harvard University from 1959–1964, including Acting Director of Admissions in the Graduate School of Education 1962–1963, and Assistant Dean in the Graduate School of Education 1964-1964." Duehay was a member of the

School Committee from 1964 to 1972. He served on the

City Council, including terms as mayor in 1980–81, 1985, and finally in 1998–99. He married Jane Kenworthy Lewis in 1991. She is his only surviving immediate family member, and had retired in 2013 as assistant clerk for the

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Death

Frank Duehay died in

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of acute leukemia on November 20, 2020, aged 87. He had moved a few years before with his wife, Jane Kenworthy Lewis, from the

house where he grew up to the Brookhaven at Lexington retirement community.

References

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