Personal Life
While at MIT, he became a member of the Number Six Club, also known as the Tau Chapter of Delta Psi. Francis W. Sargent married Jessie Fay Sargent in 1938. She wrote a memoir in 1973 about their time in office, entitled The Governor's Wife: A View from Within. They have a son, Bill Sargent of Ipswich and two daughters, Fay of Acton and Jay of Middletown. She helped to launch the Doric Dame, a group of volunteers that led tours of the Massachusetts State House. She died on August 15, 2008, peacefully in her sleep.
Sargent's son, Francis W. "Bill" Sargent, Jr. was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives seat in Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in 1996. He lost the Republican nomination to Edward B. Teague III. In 1978 Sargent, Jr. was considered by the State Republican Committee to succeed William A. Casey as the Republican nominee for Massachusetts State Auditor after Casey dropped out to support Democrat Edward J. King in the Governor's race.
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