James Michael Curley
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James Michael Curley was an American
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 politician
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 famous for his four terms as mayor
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 of Boston, Massachusetts. He also served twice in the United States House of Representatives
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 and one term as 53rd Governor of Massachusetts
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Curley's father, Michael Curley, left Oughterard
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, County Galway
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, Ireland
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 at age 14. He settled in Roxbury, an Irish immigrant neighborhood in Boston, where he met Sarah Clancy, also from Co.
 
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