Shannon P. O'Brien
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| Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts | |
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In office January 7, 1999 – January 2, 2003 |
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| Governor |
Paul Cellucci Jane Swift (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Joe Malone |
| Succeeded by | Tim Cahill |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the Hampden and Hampshire district |
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In office January 1993 – January 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Martin Dunn |
| Succeeded by | Brian Lees |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 2nd Hampshire district |
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In office January 1987 – January 1993 |
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| Preceded by | William Carey |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Flavin |
| Personal details | |
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April 30, 1959 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Emmet Hayes |
| Education |
Yale University (BA) Boston University (JD) |
Shannon Patricia Elizabeth O'Brien (born April 30, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Democrat from Massachusetts. O'Brien served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 through 1993, in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 1995, and was the Massachusetts State Treasurer from 1999 through 2003. In that last position she became the first woman to be elected in Massachusetts to statewide office by her own accord. She was the Democratic Party nominee in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002, but lost in the general election to Mitt Romney.
Four generations of O'Brien's family has served in elected office in Massachusetts government. Her great-grandfather, Michael T. O’Brien, was the proprietor of the family funeral home in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and first elected to the state legislature in 1930. Her father Edward O'Brien (1933-2004) was a lawyer who served on the Massachusetts Governor's Council from 1970 to 1975, left the post to run for Massachusetts Attorney General, losing the 1974 Democratic primary to Francis X. Belotti; Edward ran for Congress in 1976, losing to the incumbent Silvio Conte; he returned to the Governor's Council after the 1978 election and remained in office until his death in 2004. Shannon's mother is named Ann. Shannon has four siblings: Erin, a clerk at the West Roxbury District Court; Gaelan, a court officer in the Northampton District Court; Tara, a former employee at Boston City Hall; and Michael, who runs the family funeral home in Easthampton (job descriptions as of 2002).
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