Public Office
See Governor of Massachusetts for a complete list of governors from 1620 to the present.
- John Adams, 2nd U.S. president and 1st vice president
- John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president
- Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- James Bowdoin, colonial governor
- Edward Brooke, U.S. Senator
- Edward Everett, 15th Governor of the Commonwealth, U.S. Secretary of State and most commonly remembered for his two hour speech at Gettysburg before Abraham Lincoln
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. president
- Andrew Card, State Rep., U.S. Secretary of Transportation, White House Chief of Staff
- Paul Cellucci, governor and U.S. Ambassador to Canada
- Calvin Coolidge, mayor, state representative, senator and governor, 30th U.S. president
- P.J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Barack Obama
- James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts
- Paul Douglas, senator of Illinois from 1949–1967
- Michael Dukakis, governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president
- Thomas Finneran, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1996 to 2004
- Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F. Kennedy; congressional investigator probing the 1950s Twenty One quiz show scandal
- John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Thomas Hutchinson, governor
- Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator
- John F. Kennedy, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, 35th U.S. president
- Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator (New York)
- John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president
- Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser of the Department of State under President Barack Obama
- David Kris, Assistant Attorney General under President Barack Obama
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator, U.S. Ambassador, and 1960 Republican nominee for Vice-President
- Ed Markey, Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Thomas Menino, current mayor of Boston
- Tip O'Neill, 55th Speaker of the House, from 1977–1987
- Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Barack Obama
- Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945 and first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
- Mitt Romney, former governor (2003–2007), 2012 Republican presumptive nominee for U.S. president
- Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under Barack Obama
- Jane Swift, first and only female governor of Massachusetts
- John Volpe, U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Nixon and Governor of Massachusetts
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