Deval Patrick

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Deval Patrick is an American politician, lawyer, and former two-term Democratic governor of Massachusetts who was the state's first African American governor.

Aliases (1)
  • Deval Laurdine Patrick ×1

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instanceOf Democrat
human
lawyer
politician
announcedPresidentialCampaignOn 2019-11-14
appointedBy Bill Clinton
boardMemberOf Ameriquest Mortgage Company
Coca-Cola Company
candidateInElection 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1956-07-31
educatedAt Harvard College
Harvard Law School
electedIn 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
employer Coca-Cola Company
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Texaco
United States Department of Justice
endTime 2015-01-08
ethnicGroup African American
familyName Patrick
fieldOfWork civil rights law
public administration
fullName Deval Laurdine Patrick
genre political memoir
givenName Deval
hasChild Katherine Patrick
Sarah Patrick
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Party (United States)
notableFor First African American governor of Massachusetts
Second African American elected governor in U.S. history
notableWork A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life
officeHeldJurisdiction Commonwealth of Massachusetts
orderInOffice 71st Governor of Massachusetts
placeOfBirth Chicago, Illinois, United States
positionHeld Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights of the United States
Co-chair of American Bridge 21st Century
Governor of Massachusetts
Managing Director at Bain Capital Double Impact
precededBy Mitt Romney
ranForOffice President of the United States
reElectedIn 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
religion United Church of Christ
residence Milton, Massachusetts, United States
spouse Diane Bemus Patrick
startTime 2007-01-04
succeededBy Charlie Baker
workedAs civil rights attorney
corporate executive


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