Word: neill
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...other families, the Sullivans and the O'Neill's, led at the time by powerful state representative Tip O'Neill, backed Mike Neville, a former Boston mayor...
When Kennedy relinquished the seat in 1956 to run for the U.S. Senate, O'Neill and Michael LoPresti, a Massachusetts State Senator, squared off in what was then the 11th district of the Commonwealth...
...Neill won Cambridge and Somerville, and with the surprise backing of a prominent Italian-American family, split Boston with LoPresti...
...next 34 years, O'Neill dominated the district's--and eventually the nation's--political agenda...
...Neill's tenure in the office saw the district weather the civil rights movement, the expansion of national social programs, the extension of urban sprawl, the Vietnam War and increasing gentrification in Cambridge...