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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
John Kerry
American politician and diplomat (born 1943)
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in U.S. history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the father of U.S. representative Patrick J. Kennedy.
Ma Ying-jeou
12th and 13th President of Republic of China(Taiwan)
Samuel Adams
American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
Sixto Durán-Ballén
President of Ecuador (1992–1996)
Frances Perkins
Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933–1945
Edward Everett
American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator (1794–1865)
Henry Knox
American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806)
Joe Kennedy III
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022
Charles Sumner
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Marty Walsh
American politician from Massachusetts (born 1967)
Leonard Wood
5th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1860-1927)
Edward Seaga
5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (1930–2019)
William M. Evarts
American lawyer and politician (1818–1901)
John E. Sununu
American politician (born 1964)
Robert Bacon
American diplomat, secretary of state, ambassador to France, etc. (1860-1919)
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807–1886)
Samuel Dexter
American politician (1761–1816) who served in Congress and in Presidential Cabinets of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Gina McCarthy
American government official
Patrick Joseph Kennedy
American businessman and Massachusetts politician (1858–1929)
Henry Dearborn
American politician (1751-1829)
Andy Kim
American politician and diplomat (born 1982)
Gerry Connolly
American politician (1950–2025)
Richard Armitage
American diplomat and government official (1945-2025)
Mo Cowan
29th United States Senator from Massachusetts (Class 2)
Joseph P. Kennedy II
American businessman and politician, Massachusetts
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr.
American politician
Patrick J. Kennedy
American politician, Rhode Island
John William McCormack
Speaker of the House (1962-1971); American politician from Massachusetts (1891-1980)
William Hooper
American politician (1742-1790)
Nathaniel Gorham
American businessman and politician 1738-1796
Robert Charles Winthrop
American politician (1809–1894)
Rufus Choate
American politician (1799–1859)
Stephen F. Lynch
U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Alexander Hill Everett
American diplomat (1792-1847)
Edward J. King
Governor of Massachusetts (1925-2006)
William Hale Thompson
American politician (1869–1944)
George von Lengerke Meyer
United States businessman, diplomat and government official (1858-1918)
Harold Hitz Burton
United States federal judge (1888-1964)
Thomas Cushing
First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)
Lauro Cavazos
American educator; George H. W. Bush administration cabinet member (1927–2022)
James Sullivan
Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and governor (1744 – 1808)
Nancy Walker Bush
Sister of George H W Bush
Warren Rudman
American politician (1930-2012)
Brianna Wu
American video game developer
John Quincy Adams Brackett
American politician (1842–1918)
George Cabot
American Senator (1752-1823)
William M. Butler
American politician from Massachusetts (1861-1937)
Caleb Blood Smith
American judge and politician (1808–1864)
Lawrence J. Hogan
American politician from Maryland (1928–2017)
Charles Bass
American politician
Maria Walsh
Irish politician (born 1987)
Roger Wolcott
American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (1847-1900)
Alvan Tufts Fuller
American politician (1878-1958)
Howard Phillips
American politician (1941-2013)
Curtis Guild
43rd Governor of Massachusetts (1860-1915)
Moses Gill
Massachusetts state legislator, lieutenant governor, and acting governor (1734-1800)
Robert W. Upton
American politician (1884-1972)