John Q. A. Brackett

John Quincy Adams Brackett
36th Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 7, 1890 – January 8, 1891
Lieutenant	William H. Haile
Preceded by	Oliver Ames
Succeeded by	William E. Russell
34th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 8, 1887 – January 4, 1890
Governor	Oliver Ames
Preceded by	Oliver Ames
Succeeded by	William H. Haile
Member of the Boston Common Council
In office January 4, 1873 – January 1, 1877[1]
Constituency	Ward 10 (1874–75) Ward 17 (1876)
President of the Boston City Council
In office January 3, 1876 – January 1, 1877[2]
Preceded by	Halsey J. Boardman[2]
Succeeded by	Benjamin Pope[1]
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 17th Suffolk district
In office 1877–1881[3][2]
In office 1884–1886[4]
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office January 7, 1885 – 1886[2]
Preceded by	George Augustus Marden
Succeeded by	Charles J. Noyes
Personal details
Born	(1842-06-08)June 8, 1842 Bradford, New Hampshire
Died	April 6, 1918(1918-04-06) (aged 75) Arlington, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Angie Moore Peck (m. June 20, 1878)[2][5]
Children	John G. Beatrice[6]
Education	Harvard University (A.B., LL.B.)
Profession	Attorney
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John Quincy Adams Brackett (June 8, 1842 – April 6, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican and temperance advocate, he served one term as the 36th governor of Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1891. Born in New Hampshire and educated at Harvard, he practiced law in Boston before entering politics.

In the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Brackett rose to become Speaker in 1885, and was elected the 34th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Governor Oliver Ames. He succeeded Ames, but his bid for reelection in 1891 was ended by strict enforcement of restrictive liquor laws, and by the negative economic effects on the state of the McKinley Tariff. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917–1918, but died before it ended.