Joe Moakley | |
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![]() Official portrait, 1999 | |
Chair of the House Rules Committee | |
In office May 30, 1989 – January 3, 1995 | |
Preceded by | Claude Pepper |
Succeeded by | Gerald Solomon |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 9th district | |
In office January 3, 1973 – May 28, 2001 | |
Preceded by | Louise Day Hicks |
Succeeded by | Stephen Lynch |
Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the 4th Suffolk district | |
In office 1965–1971 | |
Preceded by | John E. Powers |
Succeeded by | William M. Bulger |
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 7th Suffolk district | |
In office 1953–1963 | |
Preceded by | William F. Carr |
Succeeded by | William M. Bulger |
Personal details | |
Born | John Joseph Moakley April 27, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | May 28, 2001 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 74)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse |
Evelyn Duffy
(m. 1957; died 1996) |
Education | South Boston High School[1] Suffolk University (LLB) |
Military service | |
Branch/service | ![]() |
Battles/wars | World War II |
John Joseph Moakley (April 27, 1927 – May 28, 2001) was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001. Moakley won the seat from incumbent Louise Day Hicks in a 1972 rematch; the seat had been held two years earlier by the retiring Speaker of the House John William McCormack. Moakley was the last Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules before Republicans took control of the chamber in 1995. He is the namesake of Joe Moakley Park in Boston, Massachusetts which was renamed in his honor in 2001 after his death.
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