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Joe Moakley (John Joseph Moakley) was born on 27 April, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American politician (1927–2001). Discover Joe Moakley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As John Joseph Moakley
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 27 April 1927
Birthday 27 April
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 28 May, 2001
Died Place Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1927

John Joseph Moakley (April 27, 1927 – May 28, 2001) was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001.

Moakley was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, April 27, 1927, and grew up in the Old Harbor public housing project.

1943

Lying about his age, he enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II and was involved in the Pacific War from 1943 to 1946.

1950

After returning home, Moakley attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida from 1950 to 1951, and he received his LL.B. at Suffolk University Law School in Boston in 1956.

1953

Moakley served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1963 and in the Massachusetts Senate from 1964 to 1970.

1958

In 1958, he partnered with his Suffolk classmate Daniel W. Healy, and together they opened a law practice at 149A Dorchester Street in South Boston.

1968

He was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

After the retirement of longtime Congressman John W. McCormack, Moakley ran for the Democratic nomination in the Ninth District but lost to Boston School Committee chair Louise Day Hicks, who gained support based on her opposition to school desegregation.

1970

They remained legal partners into the late 1970s.

Moakley was a member of the Portuguese American Civic Club located in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Moakley was prominent in the opposition to the legislative veto, which became an increasingly popular device in the 1970s.

He held up in committee a controversial bill proposed by Rep. Elliott Levitas that proposed to institute the legislative veto as a general feature of legislation.

1971

He was a member of the Boston City Council from 1971 to 1973.

1972

Moakley won the seat from incumbent Louise Day Hicks in a 1972 rematch; the seat had been held two years earlier by the retiring Speaker of the House John William McCormack.

In 1972, Moakley ran as an independent against Hicks and defeated her by 3,448 votes.

1973

Moakley was sworn in to Congress on January 3, 1973, one day after having switched his party affiliation back to the Democratic Party.

He was reelected 14 times, never facing substantive opposition.

He faced Republican challengers only six times; the other times, he was either completely unopposed or faced only minor-party opposition.

1983

His position was vindicated when the Supreme Court held in INS v. Chadha (1983) that the legislative veto violated the bicameralism and presentment clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

1989

Moakley led a special panel that investigated the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador.

The United States ended its military aid to El Salvador in part because of the Moakley Commission's report implicating several high-ranking Salvadoran military officials in the murders.

Moakley had a close relationship with Salvadoran activist Leonel Gómez Vides.

1995

Moakley was the last Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules before Republicans took control of the chamber in 1995.

2001

He is the namesake of Joe Moakley Park in Boston, Massachusetts which was renamed in his honor in 2001 after his death.

In 2001, Moakley announced that he would not be running for re-election for his 16th term in 2002, due to his ongoing battle with myelodysplastic syndrome.

Moakley died on May 28, 2001, in Bethesda, Maryland.

His body was interred in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree, Massachusetts.

2002

In 2002, he posthumously received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his unrelenting commitment to ending the war in El Salvador and throughout Central America, and for the compassionate care he gave his constituents in Massachusetts for nearly three decades.

He was succeeded in office by fellow Democrat Stephen Lynch.

The Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act, enacted in 2002, established the Joe Moakley Research Excellence Program for expanded and coordinated blood cancer research programs.

2010

Joe Moakley chaired the Committee on Rules from the 101st Congress through 103rd Congress.

Moakley had a bridge in Boston named for his wife, Evelyn Moakley, after her death.

The Evelyn Moakley Bridge is next to a U.S. Courthouse, which was subsequently named the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse shortly before his death.

Joe Moakley Park in South Boston is also named after him.

Moakley's efforts led to the acquisition by Bridgewater State College (Bridgewater, MA) of a $10 million grant.

The grant allowed the construction of the campus fiber network and a new regional telecommunications facility, which dramatically enhanced the teaching capabilities of the region's educational professionals.

The John Joseph Moakley Center for Technological Applications in Bridgewater provides training in the use of technology for students, teachers, and members of the workforce.

The three-story building houses a large computer lab, a television studio, an auditorium, and numerous classrooms.