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ABOUT THE CANDIDATE Campaign bio Website
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| Full name |
Deval L. Patrick |
| Party |
Democrat |
| Age |
Born 1956 |
| Current home |
Milton |
| Birthplace |
Chicago |
| Education |
Harvard College (1978), Harvard University Law School (1982)
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| Current job |
Businessman |
| Resume highlights |
Executive Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and General Counsel of The Coca-Cola Company, 2002; Vice President and General Counsel for Texaco, 1999; lawyer at Day, Berry & Howard, 1997; Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under President Bill Clinton, 1994; partner at Hill & Barlow, 1990; NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1983
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| Elected offices |
None |
| Family |
Wife Diane, daughters Sarah, 19, and Katherine, 15 |
| Campaign e-mail |
Info@devalpatrick.com |
| Phone number |
617-367-2006 |
| Fax number |
617-628-3519 |
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(By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 10/22/06)
Gubernatorial candidate Deval L. Patrick said he would take a dim view of using state tax incentives as a major tool for attracting business expansion in the state.
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(By Scott Helman, Globe Staff, 5/24/06)
What has fueled Deval Patrick's success is his ability to draw on his background to float comfortably among many different worlds.
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(By Scott Helman, Globe Staff, 9/6/06)
Deval L. Patrick is banking on his mix of public- and private-sector experience and his compelling rags-to-riches tale to catapult him to the Democratic nomination on Sept. 19.
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In August, the six candidates for governor sat down with the editors and publishers of CommonWealth Magazine for individual hour-long interviews.
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(By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff, 7/16/06)
Deval Patrick says he knows how to fix Massachusetts' reputation for being a hard place to build a new business.
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(By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff, 6/25/06)
Diane Patrick, a high-powered lawyer, is using her voice to champion the candidacy of her husband, Deval, for governor.
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On values, mobility, hardscrabble past
Deval Patrick discussed his move from the South Side of Chicago to Milton Academy and his multi-million-dollar vacation home in the Berkshires. (Boston Globe, 3/29/06)
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