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Susan B. Anthony Massachusetts (c.1820 - March 13, 1906) Anti-Slavery, Author, Editor, ICW, Lobbyist, NAWSA, Nineteenth Amendment, Organizer, Property Rights, Quaker, Revolution-Newspaper, Rochester, Seneca Falls, Speaker, Suffragist, Teacher, Temperance, Women’s Suffrage, Voting, Voting Rights /node/566404
Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the women’s suffrage movement. She traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations. Her experience with the teacher’s union, temperance, and antislavery reforms, and her Quaker upbringing, laid fertile ground for a . . .
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Civil War: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 54th Massachusetts (March 13, 1863 - August 4, 1865) Carney, Glory, Hallowell, Medal of Honor, Military, Shaw, Fort Wagner node/566244
On January 26, 1863, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton authorized Massachusetts Governor John Albion. Andrew to create volunteer artillery companies "for duty in the forts of Massachusetts and elsewhere, and such corps of infantry for the volunteer military service as he may find convenient.
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Massachusetts (c.1939 - ?) Historic Building, American History,
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The Presidential Library system formally began in 1939 when President Franklin Roosevelt donated his personal and presidential papers to the Federal Government. At the same time, President Roosevelt pledged part of his estate at Hyde Park to the United States, and friends of the President formed a private, non-profit corporation to raise funds for the construction of the library and . . .
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Honorable Edward Moore "Teddy" Kennedy Massachusetts (February 22, 1932 - August 25, 2009) Irish, Catholic. Ireland, Politician, U.S. Senator node/565032
Edward M. Kennedy, born February 22, 1932, to Joseph Patrick and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy in Boston, MA., was, at his death, the third longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate in American history, having been elected to the Senate nine times. He called health care “the cause of my life” and succeeded in bringing quality and affordable health care for countless Americans, including . . .
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Honorable John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy Massachusetts (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963) Irish, Catholic, Ireland, Politician, Author, War Hero, President of the U.S. node/565030/
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was named in honor of his mother Rose’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz. Before long, family and friends called this tiny blue-eyed baby Jack. He was not a very healthy baby, and Rose recorded on his notecard [which she kept for each child] the childhood diseases from which he suffered, such as: "whooping . . .
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Honorable John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy: Presidential Years Massachusetts (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963) Irish, Catholic, Ireland, Politician, War Hero, Author, Member of Congress, President of the U.S. node/565029
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American War hero. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House and Senate and was then elected as the 35th president of the United States, serving from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He authored three books: A Nation of Immigrants, Profiles in Courage, and Why England . . .
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Honorable Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Sr. Massachusetts (September 6, 1888 - November 18, 1969) Irish, Catholic, Ireland, Entrepreneur, Movie Executive, U.S. Ambassador node/565035
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 6, 1888, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was the son of Mary Hickey and Patrick Joseph Kennedy, an essential figure in the Irish community of Boston. Joseph grew up in East Boston and attended Catholic schools until the eighth grade, when he was enrolled in Boston Latin School, a college prep academy in the Boston Public School system. Despite . . .
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Honorable Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy Massachusetts (November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968) Irish, Catholic, Ireland, Politician, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator node/565031
Robert Francis Kennedy was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the seventh child in the closely-knit and competitive family of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. "I was the seventh of nine children," he recalled, "and when you come from that far down, you have to struggle to survive."
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Honorable Richard Edmund "Richie" Neal Massachusetts (February 14, 1949 - ?) Irish, Ireland, Catholic, AOH, Politician, US Congressman /node/565147
On November 7, 1960, Mary Garvey Neal, who had roots in Ventry, County Kerry [Ireland], took her son to the Springfield, Massachusetts, town hall. It was very late, and Richie Neal, then ten years old, would never forget that evening. He was there to witness one of Senator Jack Kennedy's last campaign stops during the final frantic days of the race against Richard Nixon for the . . .
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Stephen Pekich Massachusetts (January 8, 1941 - April 8, 2020) Veteran, Publishing Consultant node/564820
Steve Pekich recently celebrated 52 years in the publishing industry. His career began as a production trainee on January 3, 1966, at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and continued in various management positions, including President of the Riverside Publishing Company, Houghton’s assessment subsidiary based in Chicago.
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