John Q. A. Brackett

John Quincy Adams Brackett
36th Governor of Massachusetts
In office
January 7, 1890 – January 8, 1891
LieutenantWilliam H. Haile
Preceded byOliver Ames
Succeeded byWilliam E. Russell
34th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office
January 8, 1887 – January 4, 1890
GovernorOliver Ames
Preceded byOliver Ames
Succeeded byWilliam H. Haile
Member of the
Boston Common Council
In office
January 4, 1873 – January 1, 1877[1]
ConstituencyWard 10 (1874–75)
Ward 17 (1876)
President of the Boston City Council
In office
January 3, 1876 – January 1, 1877[2]
Preceded byHalsey J. Boardman[2]
Succeeded byBenjamin Pope[1]
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 17th Suffolk district
In office
1877–1881[3][2]
In office
1884–1886[4]
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
January 7, 1885 – 1886[2]
Preceded byGeorge Augustus Marden
Succeeded byCharles J. Noyes
Personal details
Born(1842-06-08)June 8, 1842
Bradford, New Hampshire
DiedApril 6, 1918(1918-04-06) (aged 75)
Arlington, Massachusetts
Political partyRepublican
SpouseAngie Moore Peck (m. June 20, 1878)[2][5]
ChildrenJohn G.
Beatrice[6]
EducationHarvard University (A.B., LL.B.)
ProfessionAttorney
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John Quincy Adams Brackett (June 8, 1842 – April 6, 1918) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Republican and temperance advocate, he served one term as the 36th governor of Massachusetts, from 1890 to 1891. Born in New Hampshire and educated at Harvard, he practiced law in Boston before entering politics.

In the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Brackett rose to become Speaker in 1885, and was elected the 34th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Governor Oliver Ames. He succeeded Ames, but his bid for reelection in 1891 was ended by strict enforcement of restrictive liquor laws, and by the negative economic effects on the state of the McKinley Tariff. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917–1918, but died before it ended.

  1. ^ a b A Catalogue of the City Councils of Boston, 1822–1908, Roxbury, 1846–1867, Charlestown 1847–1873 and of The Selectmen of Boston, 1634–1822 also of Various Other Town and Municipal officers, pp. 262–265
  2. ^ a b c d e Hurd, pp. lvi-lviii
  3. ^ Gifford, p. 345
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference JournoftheNouse1885p911 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Brownell, p. 6
  6. ^ Rotch, pp. 13–16