Ellen Cogen - Ellen Cogen, jazz vocalist - Home. List of people from Massachusetts. Jane M. Swift. Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician, who served as the 69th Lieutenant Governor from 1999 to 2003 and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003.[1] She is the only woman to perform the duties of governor of Massachusetts, doing so from April 2001 to January 2003.
At the time she became acting governor, Swift was 36 years old, making her the youngest female governor or acting governor in American history.[2] In 1990, at the age of 25, she was the youngest woman ever elected to the Massachusetts Senate. She was elected lieutenant governor in 1998. Mitt Romney. Elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Romney helped develop and enact into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation, the first of its kind in the nation, which provided near-universal health insurance access through state-level subsidies and individual mandates to purchase insurance.
He also presided over the elimination of a projected $1.2–1.5 billion deficit through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and the closure of corporate tax loopholes. Romney did not seek re-election in 2006, instead focusing on his campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. He won several primaries and caucuses but lost to the eventual nominee, Senator John McCain. Carly Simon. James Taylor. Aaron Lewis. Early life[edit] Lewis grew up, largely, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, then moved to the Forest Park section of nearby Springfield from 8th grade through high school.
His mother is Jewish with origins in Russia, Poland and Germany and his father is Catholic of Italian, Welsh and English origin.[2] Lewis attended Hebrew school in his youth.[3] His hobbies include fishing, playing golf, riding his motorcycle and dirt bike, and hunting. He has worked in landscaping, cleaned hotel rooms, and played solo acoustic sets in bars, pool halls, restaurants and coffeehouses.
Career[edit] Solo career[edit] Lewis has been performing solo acoustic shows since he was 17 and still does today. Collaborations[edit] Carrie Underwood controversy[edit] Equipment[edit] 1950 Gibson Acoustic J-451951 Gibson Acoustic Southern Jumbo1936 Gibson Acoustic Jumbo J-351956 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top1968 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top1980's Gibson Heritage Series Les Pauls (At least 5)[10]Fender TelecasterFender Stratocaster.
Mark Wahlberg. Early life Assaults and conviction Wahlberg had been in trouble 20–25 times with the Boston Police Department in his youth.
By age 13, Wahlberg had developed an addiction to cocaine and other substances.[9][10] At fifteen, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for his involvement in two separate incidents of harassing African-American children (the first some siblings and the second a group of black school children on a field trip), by throwing rocks and shouting racial epithets.[11] At 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious while yelling a racial epithet.
That same day, he also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving the victim permanently blind in one eye.[12][13] After going to prison for assault, he decided to improve his behavior. Career Music Wahlberg first came to fame as the younger brother of Donnie Wahlberg of the successful boy band New Kids on the Block. Advertising Film. Ben Affleck. Maura Tierney. Robert Kraft. Early life and career[edit] Kraft was raised in an observant Jewish family.[4] His father was a dressmaker in Boston's Chinatown.[4][5] Kraft attended Brookline High School in his hometown, graduating in 1956; He is a 1960 graduate of Columbia University, which he attended on scholarship, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965.
While at Columbia, Kraft joined Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity [6] and played on the school's lightweight football team. He began his professional career with the Rand-Whitney Group, a Worcester-based packaging company owned by his father-in-law Jacob Hiatt.[4] He still serves as this company's chairman. In 1972, he founded International Forest Products, a trader of physical paper commodities. The two combined companies make up the largest privately held paper and packaging companies in the United States. Ownership of the Patriots[edit] In 1992, St. The Patriots appeared in Super Bowl XX under their original owners, the Sullivans. Sumner Redstone. Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) is a media magnate.
He is the majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Sumner Redstone and his family are majority owners of CBS Corporation and Viacom (itself the parent company of MTV Networks, BET, and the film studio Paramount Pictures), and are equal partners in MovieTickets.com. According to Forbes as of September 2013 he is worth US $5.8 billion.[1] Early life and education[edit] Redstone attended the Boston Latin School, from which he graduated first in his class. After completing law school, Redstone served as special assistant to U.S.
Amy Poehler. Amy Meredith Poehler (/ˈpoʊlər/; born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, voice artist, producer and writer.
Raised in Burlington, Massachusetts, she graduated from Boston College in 1993 and moved to Chicago, Illinois, to study improv at The Second City and ImprovOlympic. In 1996, she moved to New York City after becoming part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, which later developed into an eponymous television show that aired on Comedy Central for three seasons.
Poehler was also one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 1999.