Good Government Association records, 1900-1936.

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Good Government Association records, 1900-1936.

1900-1936

http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0403

Records of the Good Government Association (GGA), 1900-1936, created to "arouse in the citizens of Boston a sense of political duty and aid the voters in a practical way to secure the election of aggressively honest and capable men." Records include reports made about prospective politicians such as James Curley, Calvin Coolidge, Martin Lomasney, Patrick Collins, and John F. Fitzgerald; investigations into the management of budgets and contracts relating to municipal infrastructure projects in Boston; inspection of the city budget and the activities of the Finance Commission; and promotion of the 1909 revision to Boston’s City Charter. Also includes GGA correspondence; membership records; financial statements, auditor’s reports, and cashbooks; publications and brochures; 45 scrapbooks; newspaper clippings; and individual candidate investigation files with clippings, correspondence, interviews, and campaign ephemera. Also, records of the Boston Charter Association; Carriage Bills, 1902-1914; and non-GGA printed materials.

81 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 1 deep oversize box.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7670940

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Curley, James Michael, 1874-1958

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Good Government Association.

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Boston Charter Association.

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Boston (Mass.). Finance Commission

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Collins, Patrick A. (Patrick Andrew), 1844-1905

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Patrick A. Collins was born on March 12, 1844, in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland. After the death of his father he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1848 and settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts. With limited formal education, he worked his way up in the upholstery trade, became involved in union activities and began to study the law. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1871. In 1873, he married Mary E. Carey, and they had three children, Paul, Marie, a...

Fitzgerald, John Francis, 1863-1950

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Nutter, George R. 1863-1937.

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Lomasney, Martin Michael, 1859-1933

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