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Thompson grew up on a small farm in rural Gassaway, W.Va. The middle child of three, he was the first member of his family to receive a university degree. Neither his father, an electrician, nor his mother had more than an eighth-grade education, though his mother later went back to school. Today Thompson sees his family's struggle to eke out a living as a source of personal strength. Among other things, that strength has helped inure him to the physical hardships--frostbite, altitude sickness, barely palatable food--that he routinely endures in the field...
...ending of a political era for the city—an era of old-fashioned local politics promoted by Moakley and his close friend the late former Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill (D), who represented the neighboring Eighth District from...
...cites the example of Cambridge’s own representative. Michael G. Capuano (D), then the mayor of Cambridge, who edged his opponents in a crowded race for the Eighth District largely because he attracted the support of ethnic communities in Somerville...
...This race really is similar to the Eighth district race. Candidates in this race will not only have to identify their supporters, they will have the added challenge of making sure their voters get out to vote,” he says...
Finneran’s plan would move Cambridge from the Eighth Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Michael E. Capuano, to the Fourth Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Barney Frank...