Massachusetts

====Notable 20th century politicians====

[[File:John F. Kennedy, White House color photo portrait.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[John F. Kennedy]], Massachusetts native and 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)]]

The [[Kennedy family]] was prominent in 20th-century Massachusetts politics. The children of businessman and ambassador [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.]] included [[John F. Kennedy]], who was a [[United States Senate|senator]] and [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] before [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|his assassination]] in 1963; [[Ted Kennedy]], a [[United States Senate|senator]] from 1962 until his death in 2009;<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography: Edward Moore Kennedy |website=[[American Experience]] |access-date=May 28, 2010 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedys-bio-edward-kennedy/}}</ref> and [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], a co-founder of the [[Special Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Kennedys: A Family Tree |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |access-date=May 28, 2010 |url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/111199/JFK/family-tree.shtml}}</ref> In 1966, Massachusetts became the first state to directly elect an African American to the U.S. senate with [[Edward Brooke]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Brooke, Edward William, III |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b000871 |website=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]] |access-date=April 25, 2015}}</ref> [[George H. W. Bush]], 41st [[President of the United States]] (1989–1993) was born in [[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]] in 1924.<ref>{{cite web |title=George H.W. Bush Biography |url=http://www.biography.com/people/george-hw-bush-38066 |publisher=biography.com |access-date=April 26, 2015}}</ref>

Other notable Massachusetts politicians on the national level included [[Joseph W. Martin, Jr.]], [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] (from 1947 to 1949 and then again from 1953 to 1955) and leader of House Republicans from 1939 until 1959 (where he was the only Republican to serve as Speaker between 1931 and 1995),<ref>James J. Kenneally, ''A Compassionate Conservative: A Political Biography of Joseph W. Martin Jr., Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives'' (2003)</ref> [[John W. McCormack]], Speaker of the House in the 1960s, and [[Tip O'Neill]], whose service as Speaker of the House from 1977 to 1987 was the longest continuous tenure in United States history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tip O'Neill {{!}} Donegal Diaspora |url=https://www.donegaldiaspora.ie/people/tip-oneill |website=www.donegaldiaspora.ie |access-date=December 3, 2022}}</ref>