Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (b. July 31, 1956, Chicago, Illinois) (D) is the former governor of Massachusetts. He was first elected in November 2006 and took office on January 4, 2007, becoming the first Black governor in the state and the second in the history of the United States. He served two terms, leaving office in 2015.
Patrick announced on November 14, 2019, that he was running in the 2020 presidential election.[1] He ended his presidential campaign on February 12, 2020.[2]
Biography
Patrick was born in 1956 in the South Side of Chicago. He graduated from Milton Academy in Massachusetts in 1974 and Harvard College in 1978. After working for the United Nations in Sudan, he earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982.[3][4]
Patrick began his legal career working as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Throughout the 1980s, he worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City and in private practice at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow.[4]
In 1994, President Bill Clinton (D) nominated Patrick for U.S. assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He served in that role until 1997. Patrick returned to private practice, working as general counsel at Texaco and the Coca-Cola Company.[3]
Patrick served two terms as governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015.[5]
Elections
2020
Presidency
- See also: Presidential candidates, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Biden received 306 electoral votes and President Donald Trump (R) received 232 electoral votes. In the national popular vote, Biden received 81.2 million votes and Trump received 74.2 million votes.
Patrick announced that he was running for president on November 14, 2019.[1] He suspended his presidential campaign on February 12, 2020.[2]
Ballotpedia compiled the following resources about Patrick and the 2020 presidential election:
- Recent news stories about the 2020 presidential election;
- An overview of key national and state campaign staffers;
- Endorsements from politicians, public figures, and organizations;
- An overview of candidate campaign travel; and
- A list of other presidential candidates running for election.
Click here for Deval Patrick's 2020 presidential campaign overview.
2014
Patrick did not run for a third term as governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election.[6]
2010
Patrick defeated Republican challenger Charles D. Baker and independent candidate Tim Cahill.
| Massachusetts Gubernatorial/Lieutenant Gubernatorial, General Election, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Democratic |  Deval Patrick/Tim Murray Incumbent |
48.5% | 1,112,283 | |
| Republican | Charles D. Baker/Richard R. Tisei | 42.1% | 964,866 | |
| Independent | Tim Cahill/Paul Loscocco | 8% | 184,395 | |
| Green | Jill E. Stein/Richard P. Purcell | 1.4% | 32,895 | |
| Total Votes | 2,294,439 | |||
| Election results via Massachusetts Secretary of State | ||||
2006
In 2005, Patrick announced his candidacy for governor of Massachusetts. He faced veteran Massachusetts campaigners Tom Reilly and Chris Gabrielli in the Democratic primary. Patrick secured the nomination in the September 2006 primary, winning 49 percent of the vote in a three-way race and carrying every county in the state.
In the general election, he faced Republican Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey, independent Christy Mihos, and Grace Ross of the Green-Rainbow Party. Patrick received 56 percent of the vote, winning by a margin of 20 percentage points.
Campaign finance summary
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Political career
Governor of Massachusetts (2007-2015)
Patrick was first elected governor of Massachusetts in 2006 and won re-election in 2010. He decided not to run for a third term in 2014.
Personal
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Deval and his wife, Diane Patrick (born 1951), a lawyer specializing in labor and employment law, married in 1984. They have lived in Milton, Massachusetts since 1989 and have two daughters, Sarah and Katherine.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 CNBC, "Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick enters the 2020 Democratic primary race," November 14, 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NPR, "Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Ends His Presidential Bid," February 12, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The History Makers, "Biography," accessed November 14, 2019
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Encyclopedia.com, "Deval Patrick," accessed November 14, 2019
- ↑ U.S. News & World Report, "Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Announces Dem Presidential Bid," November 14, 2019
- ↑ Boston Globe, "Grossman considering gun for governor in 2014," October 31, 2012
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