词条 | Maura Hennigan |
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| image = Councilor Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, Councilor Maura Hennigan, Mayor Raymond L. Flynn (9617959624).jpg | caption = Hennigan (center) with Mayor Raymond Flynn (right) and City Councillor Dapper O'Neil (ca.1984–1987) | name = Maura Hennigan | birth_date = ca.1952 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | restingplace = | nationality = American | website = | occupation = | residence = | party = | spouse = | alma_mater = {{plainlist|
}} | title1 = At-large member of the Boston City Council | term_start1 = 1982 | term_end1 = 1983 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | title2 = Member of the Boston City Council for District 6 | term_start2 = 1984 | term_end2 = 2001 | predecessor2 = district created | successor2 = John M. Tobin Jr. | title3 = At-large member of the Boston City Council | term_start3 = 2002 | term_end3 = 2005 | predecessor3 = Peggy Davis-Mullen | successor3 = Sam Yoon }} Maura A. Hennigan (born ca.1952) is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Criminal/Business Division.[1] She is a previous member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993, she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey. Early lifeHennigan graduated from Mount Saint Joseph Academy, an all-girls, Roman Catholic college preparatory school in Boston. She attended Salve Regina College, but did not graduate. She later earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2] After college she became a registered dietician, interning at Boston Lying-In Hospital.[2] She was a teacher in the Boston Public School system for seven years until she lost her job as a result of cuts following the implementation of Proposition 2½.[4] Political careerFrom 1982 through 2005, Hennigan was a member of the Boston City Council. She was first elected in November 1981, the final election when all seats were at-large. She was subsequently re-elected to nine two-year terms as the representative for District 6 (Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury). In November 2001, she successfully ran for an at-large position, and was re-elected in November 2003. She was the first woman to chair Boston's Ways and Means Committee.[4] In 1986 she was a candidate for Massachusetts Auditor. She finished second in a three way Democratic primary to A. Joseph DeNucci.[3] Hennigan unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Boston in November 2005. She was defeated by incumbent Thomas Menino, who garnered 67% of the vote.[4] In 2006, Hennigan was elected Clerk of the Criminal/Business Court of Suffolk County, after defeating Assistant Clerk of Court Robert Dello-Russo. She is the ninth elected official to hold this position and the first female.[4] Personal lifeAs of 2007, Hennigan hosts a weekly television show on Boston Neighborhood Network.[4] She is the daughter of former register of probate, State Senator, State Representative, and Boston School Committee member James W. Hennigan Jr. She has two siblings: a brother, James W. Hennigan III, and a sister Helen. Her grandfather James W. Hennigan Sr. was a State Senator and the namesake of the James W. Hennigan School in Jamaica Plain. She is the grandneice of William O. S. Hennigan, a member of the Boston Common Council in 1900.[5] References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.mass.gov/locations/suffolk-county-superior-court |title=Suffolk County Superior Court |website=mass.gov |accessdate=February 25, 2018}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|last=Rivas|first=Maggie|title=Hennigan: Too Much Patronage|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/684491691.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT|accessdate=22 October 2011|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=November 5, 1981|url-access=limited|via=pqarchiver.com}} 3. ^{{cite book |author= |coauthors= |title=Massachusetts Election Statistics 1986 |year= |publisher= |quote= | url=https://archive.org/stream/massachusettsele1986mass#page/132/mode/2up |isbn= }} 4. ^{{cite web |title=City of Boston Municipal Election - November 8, 2005: Mayor |url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/elections/results/results/Mayor.pdf |publisher=City of Boston |accessdate=5 June 2011}} 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last=Zagastizábal|first=Andy|title=Hennigan 1st female clerk|url=http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2007/01/19/hennigan_1st_female_clerk/|accessdate=22 October 2011|newspaper=Jamaica Plain Gazette|date=January 19, 2007}} Further reading
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