Richard M. Haggerty is an American politician. He represents the 30th Middlesex District in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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, representing the towns of
Woburn and
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. As State Representative, Richard serves as Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business, and serves on the Joint Committee on Financial Services, the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utility, and Energy, along with the House Standing Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change.
Past experiences in the public service sector include his role as Woburn City Council President (2014-2019) and Alderman at Large (2010-2019).
Richard also serves on the board of the Woburn Friends of VNA, is a board member of the Middlesex County Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership, and is an active member of the Woburn Elks and the Woburn Historical Society.
Personal life
Haggerty is the great-grandson of J.D. Haggerty, who founded the Woburn Daily Times in 1901, and the grandson of Edward Costello a career firefighter from Medford, MA.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of New Hampshire in Political Science with a special concentration in Foreign Policy. He graduated from Woburn High School.
See also
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2019–2020 Massachusetts legislature
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2021–2022 Massachusetts legislature
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External links
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References
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Living people
21st-century American legislators
Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
University of New Hampshire alumni
People from Woburn, Massachusetts
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Massachusetts politicians