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Michael Stanley Dukakis (/ d ʊ ˈ k ɑː k ɪ s / duu-KAH-kiss; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.
The 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis began when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on March 16, 1987, in a speech in Boston.
Oct 30, 2024 · Michael Dukakis, American politician and lawyer, who served as governor of Massachusetts (1975–79, 1983–91) and who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1988; he lost the election to George H.W. Bush. Learn more about Dukakis’s life and career, including his governorship.
Apr 12, 2024 · Northeastern University hosted a high-profile retirement party Thursday, as former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis stepped down after 29 years of teaching politics and policy at the school.
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. In what was the third consecutive landslide election for the Republican Party, their ticket of incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush and Indiana senator Dan Quayle defeated the Democratic ticket of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen.. It remains the most recent election in which a candidate won over 400 electoral votes, and ...
Nov 7, 2024 · They are today because of what happened to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee in 1988. Up 17 points over Vice President George H.W. Bush after the Democratic convention, he went on to lose by over 7 million votes and an Electoral College landslide of 426 to 111, making Bush the only vice president in the postwar era to win a promotion to the presidency from the electorate.
Oct 18, 2024 · Now, beloved Northeastern professor Michael Dukakis has made it to the silver screen, as the documentary film “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy” premieres Tuesday in Brookline.
Nov 3, 2023 · Former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, once the national hope of millions as his party’s presidential nominee, has spent all of his 32 years out of office committed to a political...
Nov 3, 2023 · Former three-term Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis turns 90 Friday. Radio Boston takes a look at his legacy in the commonwealth, from strong investments in children and the MBTA, to the...
She and her husband, Michael S. Dukakis, former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, live in Brookline, Massachusetts. They have three children, John, Andrea and Kara, and seven grandchildren.
