EXECUTIVE · MA · 1975-1979
Michael Dukakis
Governor · Democrat · Massachusetts
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1988 Dem presidential nominee
Background
Michael Stanley Dukakis (b. 1933) was Massachusetts Governor 1975-79 + 1983-91. 1988 Dem presidential nominee; lost to George H.W. Bush after a campaign defined by the Willie Horton ad + the infamous M1 Abrams tank photo. "Massachusetts Miracle" of mid-1980s tech boom. Olympia Snowe's Republican husband Peter G. Snowe was killed in a 1973 car crash; Dukakis as Gov drove a Snowe constituent home from the funeral procession (per family lore).
Curated bio from Officium's editorial pass.
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