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Michael S. Dukakis

Michael Dukakis
Governor Dukakis speaks at the 1976 Democratic National Convention (cropped).jpg
Dukakis speaking at the 1976 Democratic National Convention
65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts
In office
January 6, 1983 – January 3, 1991
Lieutenant John Kerry
Evelyn Murphy
Preceded by Edward J. King
Succeeded by Bill Weld
In office
January 2, 1975 – January 4, 1979
Lieutenant Thomas P. O'Neill III
Preceded by Francis W. Sargent
Succeeded by Edward J. King
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 13th Norfolk district
In office
January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by Constituency established
Succeeded by Jon Rotenberg
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 10th Norfolk district
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
Preceded by Sumner Kaplan
Succeeded by James Wheeler
Personal details
Born Michael Stanley Dukakis
(1933-11-03) November 3, 1933 (age 83)
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Kitty Dickson
Children John Dukakis
Andrea
Kara
Education Swarthmore College (BA)
Harvard University (JD)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
Years of service 1955–1957
Rank Specialist Third Class
Unit 8020th Administrative Unit

Michael Stanley Dukakis (/dᵿˈkɑːks/; born November 3, 1933, Greek: Δουκάκης) is an American politician who served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979 and 1983 to 1991 respectively. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, but lost to the Republican candidate, Vice President George H. W. Bush.

Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Panos (1896–1979) was a Greek immigrant from Adramyttion (Edremit), in Asia Minor, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. Panos Dukakis settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician. Dukakis' mother Euterpe (née Boukis; 1903–2003) was an Aromanian Greek immigrant from Larissa, in Thessaly; she and her family emigrated to Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1913.


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