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Thomas J. Boynton (politician)

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Thomas J. Boynton
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
In office
1917–1920
Preceded byGeorge W. Anderson
Succeeded byDaniel J. Gallagher
Massachusetts Attorney General
In office
1914–1915
GovernorDavid I. Walsh
Preceded byJames M. Swift
Succeeded byHenry Converse Atwill
Majority8,102[1]
Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention[2][3]
In office
June 6, 1917[2] – April 6, 1918[4]
Mayor of
Everett, Massachusetts
In office
1903[5]–1904[5]
Preceded byCharles Bruce[5]
Succeeded byH. Heustis Newton[5]
In office
1905[5]–1907[5]
Preceded byH. Heustis Newton[5]
Succeeded byCharles Bruce[5]
Personal details
BornDecember 30, 1856
Westfield, Vermont[3]
DiedApril 14, 1945 (1945-04-15) (aged 88)[6]
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic[3]

Thomas Jefferson Boynton (December 30, 1856 – April 14, 1945) was a U.S. political figure who served in 1882 as a member of the Vermont legislature,[3] the city solicitor and the Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts[3] and as the Massachusetts Attorney General.[3]

Boynton was born in Westfield, Vermont.

1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

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In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.[7] In May 1917, Boynton was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the Twentieth Middlesex District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[8]

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  1. ^ Hennessy, Michael Edmund (1917), Twenty-five Years of Massachusetts Politics: from Russell to McCall, 1890-1915, Boston, Ma: Practical Politics, p. 349
  2. ^ a b Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 8 – via Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
  3. ^ a b c d e f Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1919), A souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional convention, Boston, Stoughton, MA: A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman, p. 62
  4. ^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 626 – via Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mayors of the City of Everett". Archived from the original on June 2, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  6. ^ Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (April 14, 1945), "THOMAS J.BOYNTON; Former Massachusetts Attorney General Ex-Mayor of Everett", New York Times, New York, NY, p. 15
  7. ^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, pp. 7–8
  8. ^ Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919, p. 10
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Party political offices
Preceded by Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Massachusetts
1913, 1914 		Succeeded by
Joseph Joyce Donahue
Legal offices
Preceded by Attorney General of Massachusetts
1914 - 1915 		Succeeded by


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