Wasn't Ed Brooke once Governor of Massachusetts?
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Brooke was a senator.
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No. The federal government determines citizenship, and the Defense of Marriage Act pretty much says you aren't married, regardless of what Massachusetts says.\n\nhttp://www.lectlaw.com/files/leg23.htm
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[Printer Friendly] [Text Version]A a\nGovernor Dedicates Building Honoring Former Governor and State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner\nContact:  John Truscott (517) 335-6397 \nAgency: Transportation \n\n \n\nAugust 11, 1999 \nState Transportation Building gets a new name \n\nGovernor Engler today dedicated the Murray D. Van Wagoner Transportation Building in honor of the late Michigan Governor and State Highway Commissioner. The building, formerly known as the Transportation Building, located at 425 W. Ottawa, Lansing, houses the Michigan Department of Transportation. \n\n"Governor Van Wagoner's lifetime commitment to public service speaks to the dedication and respect to which he gave all his endeavors," said Engler. "His contributions to the state and country have earned him a place among the highest honored Michigan citizens." \n\nMurray D. Van Wagoner served as Governor of Michigan in 1941-1942 and elected State Highway Commissioner from 1933-1940. He was responsible for the first roadside park along a state highway system and established the nation's first permanent travel information center at New Buffalo as State Highway Commissioner. Van Wagoner was also an early advocate of the Mackinac Bridge by working to build the causeway on the north side of the Straits in 1941. Further construction on the bridge came to halt with the beginning of World War II. \n\nIt was during his governorship that he made his most significant public service contribution. At the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Van Wagoner led the development of the "Arsenal of Democracy" through the construction of an expressway linking Detroit and Ypsilanti to support the Willow Run bomber plant, in only 11 months. In addition, Van Wagoner launched the civilian defense program and the expansion of the home guard and worked to see that strikes did not disrupt the production of essential war materials. \n\nIn 1947, President Harry S. Truman appointed Van Wagoner as U.S. Military Governor of Bavaria. In 1949, he was named land commissioner of Bavaria for the U.S. State Department. \n\nVan Wagoner returned to Michigan in 1950, soon after he joined a private firm as a consulting engineer, and in 1951 served as a regent of the University of Michigan. The last, and longest, post held by Van Wagoner was that of member and vice-chairman on the Mackinac Bridge Authority, a tenure that ran from its inception in 1950 until his death in 1986. \n\nVan Wagoner was married for 61 years to Helen. They had two children named Ellen and Jo Ann. Van Wagoner passed away on June 12, 1986, at age 88. They are survived by their daughter Jo Ann, who lives in Reno, Nevada, with her husband, U.S. Army General (Retired) Frederick Karhohs and their two children: Major Jeffery Karhohs and James Karhohs, DDS and son-in-law Walt Wikol of Birmingham and his four children: Murray D. Van Wagoner Wikol, Michael, Amy Christine, Thomas, and 12 great-grandchildren.
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Why all the debate?\nAre none of you aware that no less a person than the current governor of California was once pregnant?  I saw it myself at the local Multiplex...\nI saw a previous governor of California at the cinema years ago - who then went on to become president.  Then a few years later, it was his co-stars turn!
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Colonial Massachusetts - Massachusetts was the most important northern colony, as well as an important part of New England, where many American institutions and traditions were formed. Unlike southern colonies, it was built around small towns, rather than scattered farms. The Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem and later to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As the Puritans gradually secularized and became known as Yankees, the Congregational Church continued to dominate most small towns. Late in the colonial period Baptist and other dissenting churches emerged, and the elites in Boston and other cities turned to the Anglican and Unitarian religions. The colony defeated some Indian tribes in King Philip's War in the 1670s, and fought with Britain a series of French and Indian Wars that were characterized by brutal border raids, and successful attacks on Canada. \nPre-revolutionary events - Massachusetts was a center of the American Revolution, with actions by the patriots and counter-actions by the Crown (including the Intolerable Acts) a main reason for unity of the 13 colonies and the outbreak of war, starting with battles around Boston in 1775-76. Also see Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party. \nBattles of the American Revolution - Battles of Lexington and Concord, Siege of Boston, Battle of Bunker Hill. \nFirst Governor of the Commonwealth - John Hancock was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \nShays' Rebellion - Western Massachusetts uprising after the Revolution. \nU.S. Constitution - On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. \nSlavery - According to a 1790 census, Massachusetts had a slave population of zero. \nDistrict of Maine - On March 15, 1820, Maine was separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a non-contiguous part, and entered the Union as the 23rd State. (See Missouri Compromise) \nU.S. Civil War - The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of the first African-American regiments in the U.S. military. \nThe Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) - Known as the Big Dig to locals, it is the most expensive single highway construction project in the United States. The project began 1991, with final construction occurring in 2006. \nRoman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - In 2002, the diocese was found to have knowingly moved priests who sexually molested children from parish to parish and to have covered up abuse. \nSame-sex marriage - On November 18, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that the state could not deny marriage rights to same-sex couples under the state constitution. Same-sex marriage is currently legal in Massachusetts. \nInvention of sports: \nCandlepin bowling was invented in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1880. \nBasketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. \nVolleyball was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
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Col. Robert Gould Shaw led the 54th Massachusetts from it's mustering until his death July 18th, 1863 in an assault on Battery Wagner.\n\nMaj. Edward Needles Hallowell succeeded him as commander of the unit, and apparently served in that position until the unit was mustered out at the end of the war.
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NO!\n\nJust what massachusetts needs. An all democratic house with two democratic senators and a democratic governor.\n\nWheres the balance? Ross was the only one that knew what the heck she was talking about.
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Apparently so.\n\nFor the five years prior to his election to the Assembly, Dennis served as Vice-President of American Learning Corporation headquartered in Huntington Beach.
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FFS - are you too stupid to do your own internet search?!?\n\nGerry Studds - enter Gerry Studds, page, scandal\n\nStill too much for you? Fine - here ya go: \n\n~*~*~\nGary Studds Congressional Biography\n\nSTUDDS, Gerry Eastman, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Mineola, Nassau County, N.Y., May 12, 1937; attended the public schools in Cohasset and Derby Academy in Hingham, Mass.; B.A., Yale University, 1959; M.A.T., history, same university, 1961; teacher at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H.; foreign service officer, United States Department of State, 1961-1962; member, President Kennedy’s White House staff, 1962-1963; legislative assistant to Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., 1964; State Coordinator of United States Senator Eugene McCarthy’s presidential primary campaign, 1968; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1997); censured by the Ninety-eighth Congress pursuant to H.Res. 265, passed July 20, 1983; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (One Hundred Third Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress.\n\n~*~*~\nAP’s Extraordinary Double Standard Regarding Mark Foley and Gerry Studds\nPosted by Noel Sheppard on October 15, 2006 - 12:23.\n\nSince the Mark Foley page story first broke, there have been many articles discussing the double standard in which Republican and Democrat sex scandals are handled by Congress and the media. No finer example of such hypocrisy has been demonstrated than by the Associated Press on Saturday, October 14, which had nothing but high praise for the now deceased former Rep. Gerry Studds while it continued to heap scorn on Foley.\n\nFor example, an article entitled “Studds, first openly gay person elected to Congress, dead at 69,” spoke glowingly of the former Congressman who, unlike Foley, actually had a sexual encounter with a seventeen-year-old male page in 1973. In fact, the AP suggested that this was an important moment in history for gay rights:\n\n     “Gerry often said it was the fight for gay and lesbian equality that was the last great civil rights chapter in modern American history. He did not live to see its final sentences written, but all of us will forever be indebted to him for leading the way with compassion and wisdom,” said his husband, Dean T. Hara, 49, in a statement.\n\nThe article included some glowing praise from a current member of Congress:\n\n    U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton), who announced he was gay four years after Studds’ disclosure, said yesterday his colleague didn’t let the scandal get in his way.\n\n    “It was very important to see, for young people in particular, somebody as capable and talented as he be openly gay,” said Frank, “That gave a lot people the courage to say, ‘I can survive this business in being honest about who I am.’”\n\n~*~*~*~*~\n\nGerry Studds Dies at 69; First Openly Gay Congressman\nNew York Times\nBy DAMIEN CAVE\nPublished: October 15, 2006\n\nGerry E. Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress and a demanding advocate for New England fishermen and for gay rights, died early Saturday at Boston University Medical Center, his husband said.
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Steven Freind was a nutty state legislator from Delaware County, which is just outside Philadelphia to the west. I used to live in Havertown, which was right in his State Senate district. I call him "nutty" because he was once quoted as saying that during rape, women "secrete a certain secretion" that keeps them from getting pregnant. Eventually, he got a big head and thought he could be the governor. He was crushed in the primaries, and promptly disappeared from the political scene in Pennsylvania.
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Barney Frank is a gay congressman, there was that gay governor in NJ, but he resigned when he came out.
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Our last was Anne McLellan. There is none at this time they are appointed by the present goverment. When Joe Clark was in office there was none due to his short term.
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John Underwood, Andover, Massachussetts.Hee Hee.I saw it on one of the answers you gave.
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I am not positive but I don't believe the philandering,drunk, murdered was in congress at the time.  \n\nI believe he was in college and busy cheating on exams (which is true by the way).  \n\nIs their a single aspect of this scum bags life that can  be admired.  \n\nOnly the ignorant liberals of MA can be stupid enough to re-elect this loser 20 times.  What do you expect when your last great contribution to society was more than 200 yrs ago.
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Yes, just look at NJ's former governor Jim Mcgreevey. He did a fine job and then there was some uproar after he came out of the closet with a homosexual extra-marital affair. He then announced his resignation afterwards, but nevertheless, he did a fine job.
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No, but it is two late for that. I know he was pinched in 1976 in Maine, and I also know that his record in Texas is not available. He is really a piece of work isn't he. I wish more Americans would wake up to the fact that they have elected a fellon to the presidency.
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The first black governor was P.B.S. Pinchback, the governor of Lousiana from December 9, 1872 until January 13, 1873. He only lasted a month because he allegedly "stole" the governor seat from someone else.\n\nAs for the first *elected* black governor of a U.S. state, that'd be Douglas Wilder. He was the governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. \n\nOther than that, I don't believe there have been any others. There have been a handful serving as Lieutenant Governor, though.\n\nIt seems as though Deval Patrick may win the Massachusetts gubernatorial election on the 7th of this month, though. Which would make him a present-day black governor.