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(Redirected from Thomas J. Boynton (Massachusetts)) American politician
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
Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention
In office
June 6, 1917 – April 6, 1918
Mayor of
Everett, Massachusetts
In office
1903–1904
Preceded byCharles Bruce
Succeeded byH. Heustis Newton
In office
1905–1907
Preceded byH. Heustis Newton
Succeeded byCharles Bruce
Personal details
BornDecember 30, 1856
Westfield, Vermont
DiedApril 14, 1945 (1945-04-15) (aged 88)
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic

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, the city solicitor and the Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts and as the Massachusetts Attorney General.

Boynton was born in Westfield, Vermont.

1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention. 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.

Notes

  1. Hennessy, Michael Edmund (1917), Twenty-five Years of Massachusetts Politics: from Russell to McCall, 1890-1915, Boston, Ma: Practical Politics, p. 349
  2. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ "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 byGeorge W. Anderson Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Massachusetts
1913, 1914 		Succeeded byJoseph Joyce Donahue
Legal offices
Preceded byJames M. Swift Attorney General of Massachusetts
1914 - 1915 		Succeeded byHenry Converse Atwill


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