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Kevin White, former mayor of Boston, 82

In 1960, Mr. White ran for the Democratic nomination for the open position of secretary of state. To win the party’s nomination at what was then a binding convention, Mr. White’s father and father-in-law called in old markers. After two ballots, Kevin White was surging toward victory shortly before midnight at the party’s marathon convention in the old Boston Arena. Mr. White beat a rising Republican star, Edward W. Brooke and went on to win re-election three times, twice to two-year terms and then a four-year term as state secretary. Left: Mayor White presented the Scott medal of Valor and Dept. medal of Honor to Walter A. Schroeder on Dec. 9, 1968.
Julian Brown/Globe Staff

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In 1960, Mr. White ran for the Democratic nomination for the open position of secretary of state. To win the party’s nomination at what was then a binding convention, Mr. White’s father and father-in-law called in old markers. After two ballots, Kevin White was surging toward victory shortly before midnight at the party’s marathon convention in the old Boston Arena.

Mr. White beat a rising Republican star, Edward W. Brooke and went on to win re-election three times, twice to two-year terms and then a four-year term as state secretary.

Left: Mayor White presented the Scott medal of Valor and Dept. medal of Honor to Walter A. Schroeder on Dec. 9, 1968.