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> Timeline: 1950-present
- 1950:
Gabriel Piemonte becomes the first Italian-American
President of the Boston City Council.
- 1952:
Rocky Marciano of Brockton, Massachusetts becomes
world's heavyweight boxing champion. Marciano retires
undefeated in 1956.
- 1956:
Foster Furcolo is elected Massachusetts' first Italian-American
Governor. The Boston Globe headline for November
7, 1956 states "FURCOLO WALKS IN." "It makes little
difference whether you win by half a length or a length."
was Mr. Furcolo's comment in regard to his 104,900
vote winning margin over Whittier.
- 1963-65:
Francis X. Bellotti served as first Italian-American
Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth.
- 1965-69:
Governor John Volpe served as the second Italian-American
Governor of the Commonwealth. On January 2 Richard
M. Nixon appoints Volpe United States Secretary of
Transportation. Volpe subsequently serves as United
States Ambassador to Italy.
- 1977:
August 23, Governor Michael Dukakis declares 23 August
as Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Memorial Day
stating "The atmosphere of their trial and appeals
was permeated by prejudice against foreigners and
hostility toward unorthodox political views � and
the conduct of many officials involved in the case
sheds serious doubts on their willingness and ability
to prosecution and trial fairly."
- 1993:
Thomas A. Menino, of Hyde Park, becomes Boston's first
Italian-American Mayor. He is reelected in 1997 without
opposition, the first Mayor in modern times to enjoy
that distinction.
- 1995:
February 14, Rosaria Salerno was elected as the first
woman and the first Italian- American City Clerk of
Boston
- 1998:
Somerville Mayor Michael Capuano becomes the first
Italian-American elected to the Eighth Congressional
District seat formerly held by such legendary political
figures as James Michael Curley, John Fitgerald Kennedy,
and Thomas P. O'Neill.
See
1850-1949
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