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Kerry Healey for governor
ABOUT THE CANDIDATE  Campaign bio  Website
Full name Kerry Murphy Healey
Party Republican
Age 45
Current home Beverly
Birthplace Omaha, Nebraska
Education BA Harvard University (1982); Ph.D. from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland
Current job Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Resume highlights Law and public safety consultant at Abt Associates, Inc., in Cambridge; past member of Foundation Board of North Shore Community College and Friend's Board of Beverly Hospital; 1983 Rotary International Scholarship recipient
Elected offices Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
Family Husband Sean, two children
Campaign e-mail nlittle@healeycommittee.com
Phone number 617-523-0844
Fax number 617-523-6311
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(By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 10/8/06)
Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey is pledging if she becomes governor she'll focus far more attention than Mitt Romney has on small business.
Kerry Healey for governor
(By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff, 12/11/05)
By all accounts highly intelligent, 45-year-old Kerry Healey is academic and wonkish by both training and inclination.
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(By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff, 4/10/06)
With Sean Healey's enormous wealth ready to help the candidacy of his wife, Kerry, he is the Republican campaign's secret weapon.
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