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    William Gaston (October 3, 1820 – January 19, 1894) was a lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat, he was the first member of that party to...
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  • American politician William Gaston (1778–1844), American politician and jurist William Gaston (Massachusetts politician) (1820–1894), American politician William...
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  • also refer to: William Gaston (merchant) (1785–1837), prominent citizen of Savannah, Georgia William Gaston (Massachusetts politician) (1820–1894), 29th Governor...
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  • Senator Gaston may refer to: William Gaston (Massachusetts politician) (1820–1894), Massachusetts State Senate William Gaston (1778–1844), North Carolina...
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    William Alexander Gaston (May 1, 1859 – July 17, 1927) was an American lawyer, banker, and politician who was the Democratic Party nominee for Governor...
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    William Gaston Caperton III (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 31st governor of West Virginia from 1989 to 1997. He was...
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    Cummings, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor in 1924 Gaston was unopposed for the Democratic...
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    over Democrat William Gaston. Nathaniel Bartlett (Independent) Benjamin Butler, U.S. Representative from Lowell (Independent) William Gaston, former mayor...
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    (1861–68) and member of the Adams family William Gaston, former governor (1875–76) Former governor William Gaston, who had been the party nominee in the...
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    former Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts and nominee for governor in 1916 and 1917 (endorsed Gaston) Joseph H. O'Neil, former United States...
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    William Lewis Douglas (August 22, 1845 – September 17, 1924) was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He served as the 42nd governor...
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  • physician and politician François-Edmond Pâris (1806–1893), French admiral Gaston Paris (1839–1903), French writer and linguist Gaston Paris (photographer)...
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    William Dummer (bapt. October 10, 1677 – October 10, 1761) was an American-born politician and colonial administrator who spent the majority of his life...
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    William Eustis Russell (January 6, 1857 – July 16, 1896) was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor...
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    Massachusetts General Court. Journal of the Senate. 1874 sess., 401, accessed March 8, 2023 Glashan 1979, p. 138. Sobel 1978, p. 712. "William Gaston"...
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    office after the resignation of William B. Washburn, was defeated by Democrat William Gaston, a former Mayor of Boston. Gaston was the first Democrat elected...
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    William Amos Bancroft (April 26, 1855 – March 11, 1922) was a Massachusetts businessman, soldier and politician who served in the Massachusetts House...
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    Democrats to elect William Gaston over Talbot by a narrow margin. The election marked a watershed in post-Civil War Massachusetts, since it was the first...
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  • candidate for Governor of Massachusetts 1873 1877; Governor of Massachusetts 1875–76. Father of William A. Gaston. William A. Gaston (1859–1927), candidate...
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    William Barrett Washburn (January 31, 1820 – October 5, 1887) was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. Washburn served several terms...
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    Italian lyric poet (d. 1712) June 25 – Joseph Sherman (Massachusetts Bay Colony), American politician (d. 1731) July 1 – Maria Anna Vasa, Polish princess...
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    The 1875 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1875. Incumbent Democratic governor William Gaston ran for re-election to a second...
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  • September 14, 1885) was a Massachusetts clergyman, politician, and librarian who served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature and, from 1858...
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    grandfather Charles D. Baker Jr. (c. 1890–1971) was a prominent politician in Newburyport, Massachusetts. His father, Charles Duane Baker (born 1928), a Harvard...
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    settling in California and motivated by an earlier filibustering project of Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon, Walker attempted in 1853–54 to take Baja California...
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    July 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed William F. Weld as US District Attorney for Massachusetts. Weld expanded the previously ongoing investigative...
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    1900) was a Republican lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 36th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897, becoming acting...
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    Joseph B. Ely (category 20th-century Massachusetts politicians)
    1881 – June 13, 1956) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Massachusetts. As a conservative Democrat, Ely was active in party politics...
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  • Harmon Hall (category Republican Party Massachusetts state senators)
    board of trustees by Governor William Gaston. In 1876, Hall represented the First Essex district in the Massachusetts Senate. The following year he was...
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    low-income and elderly families in Massachusetts. Kennedy was born in the Brighton section of Boston, Massachusetts on September 24, 1952. He was the second...
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