Lois Pines is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts General Court and was a candidate for statewide office four times.

Early life

Pines was born on August 16, 1940 in

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. She graduated from Barnard College in 1960 and then attended

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, but did not graduate. In 1963 she graduated from the

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Political career

From 1972 to 1973, Pines was an at-large member of the Newton, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen. From 1973 to 1979 she was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1978, she was a candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. She finished second in the seven candidate

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primary behind incumbent

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with 24.85% of the vote. After her defeat, Pines was appointed Regional Director of the New England Office of the

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. In 1981, she resigned to run for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. She finished in fifth place behind John Kerry,

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, Samuel Rotondi, and Lou Nickinello. From 1987 to 1999, Pines represented the 1st Middlesex and Norfolk District in the Massachusetts Senate. In 1998 she was a candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General, losing to Middlesex County District Attorney

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52.67% to 47.27%. In 2002 she once again ran for Lieutenant Governor. She finished in second place in the Democratic primary (behind

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and ahead of

John P. Slattery John P. Slattery (born April 5, 1958) is an American former politician who represented the 12th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and was a Peabody, Massachusetts City Counclior from 1993 to 1994. W ...

). Lois Pines is currently a director of the Federal Home Loan Bank in Boston.

Family

Pines is married to Dr. Joseph Pines, a pulmonologist who is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior physician at

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded ...

, both in Boston. They reside in Newton.

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Early life

Political career

Family

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