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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Foster FURCOLO
(1911-1995)
FURCOLO, John Foster, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in New Haven, Conn., July
29, 1911; graduated from New Haven High School, New Haven, Conn.;
graduated from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1933; LL.B., Yale
University, New Haven, Conn., 1936; lawyer, private practice;
United States Navy; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and
Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-September 30, 1952);
Massachusetts state treasurer, 1952-1954; unsuccessful candidate
for election to the United States Senate in 1954; governor of
Massachusetts, January 3, 1957-January 5, 1961; assistant district
attorney, Middlesex County, Mass., 1967; chairman, United States
Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Narcotics, 1969;
administrative law judge, United States Occupational Safety and
Health Review Commission, 1975-1989; died on July 5, 1995, in
Cambridge, Mass.; interment in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline,
Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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