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词条 Alexander Grant (Massachusetts politician)
释义

  1. Personal life

  2. Business career

  3. Political career

  4. Notes

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| name =Alexander Grant
| birth_date =September 26, 1853.[1]
| birth_place =Lawrence, Massachusetts[1]
| death_date = 1935
| death_place = Chicopee, Massachusetts
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| occupation =
| office = 6th Mayor of
Chicopee, Massachusetts
| term_start = January 1896
| term_end = January 1897
| predecessor = Andrew Gale
| successor = George D. Eldridge
| office2 = Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
5th Hampden District[1]
|majority2= 35 (1893)[1]
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| office3 = Member of the Chicopee, Massachusetts
Board of Aldermen
Ward 2[1]
| term_start3 = 1860
| term_end3 = 1861
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| party = Republican Party[1]
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}}Alexander Grant (1853–1935)[1] was a Massachusetts machinist and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1] and as the sixth mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts.[2]

Personal life

Grant was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 26, 1853.[1] Grant was educated in the Lowell, Massachusetts public schools.[1] In 1879 in Chicopee, he married Annie M. Vanzandt (1854–1934), original from Rome, New York. His wife preceded him in death by a few months.[1]

Business career

Grant went to work in the cotton mills of Lowell while he was still young, and aside from two and a half years working in a Lowell machine shop, he spent his business career in the cotton business.[1] In March 1878 Grant moved to Chicopee[1] where he went to work for the Dwight Manufacturing Company.[1]

Political career

Grant was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Chicopee Board of Aldermen, and in 1895 he was elected to [1] represent the Fifth Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[3]

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Notes

1. ^{{findagrave|130494512}}
2. ^{{Citation | last=Copeland| first=Alfred Minott| title = "Our County and Its People": A History of Hampden County Massachusetts, Volume Three| page = 493. | publisher=The Century Memorial Publishing Company| year = 1902}}
3. ^10 11 12 13 {{Citation | last=Bridgman|first= Arthur Milnor| title = A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators 1894, Vol. III| page = 145. | publisher = A. M. Bridgman | location = Brockton, Massachusetts | year = 1894}}
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6 : 1853 births|1935 deaths|Massachusetts Republicans|Mayors of Chicopee, Massachusetts|Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives|Politicians from Lawrence, Massachusetts

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