EMORY WASHBURN, the twenty-third governor of Massachusetts, was born in Leicester, Massachusetts on February 14, 1800. His education was attained at Dartmouth College, and at Williams College, where he graduated…

HENRY J. GARDNER, the twenty-fourth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 14, 1818. His education was attained at the Phillips Academy in New Hampshire, and later…

NATHANIEL P. BANKS, who served under five different party affiliations during his political career, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on January 30, 1816. His early education was attained in the…

JOHN A. ANDREW, the twenty-sixth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Windham, Maine on May 31, 1818. His education was attained at the Gorham Academy, and later at Bowdoin College, where…

ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK, the twenty-seventh governor of Massachusetts, was born in Royalston, Massachusetts on March 2, 1816. His education was attained at Amherst College, where he graduated in 1836, and…

WILLIAM CLAFLIN, the twenty-eighth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Milford, Massachusetts on March 6, 1818. His education was attained at the Milford Academy, and later at Brown University, however…

WILLIAM B. WASHBURN, the twenty-ninth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts on January 31, 1820. His education was attained at the Westminster Academy, at the Hancock Academy, and…

THOMAS TALBOT, the thirtieth and thirty-third governor to serve Massachusetts, was born in Cambridge, New York on September 7, 1818. After the death of his father, his family moved to…

WILLIAM GASTON, the thirty-first governor of Massachusetts, was born in Killingly, Connecticut on October 3, 1820. His early education was attained at the Brooklyn and Plainfield Academies in Connecticut, and…

ALEXANDER H. RICE, the thirty-second governor of Massachusetts, was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts on August 30, 1818. His early education was attained in the Newton public schools, and…

JOHN D. LONG, the thirty-fourth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Buckfield, Maine on October 27, 1838. His education was attained at the Hebron Academy, and later at Harvard University,…

BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, the thirty-fifth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire on November 5, 1818. His education was attained at the Exeter Academy, and at Colby College,…