Former (Boston) Mayor Kevin Hagan White dies at 82
Source: Boston Globe
Former Mayor Kevin Hagan White dies at 82
01/27/2012 9:36 PM
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff
Kevin Hagan White, a political figure who helped transform Boston into a world-class city during 16 often turbulent years as mayor, has died, according to Mayor Thomas M. Menino . He was 82 and was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease about a decade ago.
A larger-than-life presence of his era, Mr. White had deep roots in the parochial old political culture of the city, but lightning instincts and a roving intellect that propelled him to national stature. Amid society-altering upheavals of the era -- the civil rights movement, Vietnam War, and Watergate -- he adapted and survived, at times reinventing himself.
From 1968 to 1984, Mr. White was chief executive of a fast-changing metropolis, which had emerged from decades of economic stagnation and insularity with an explosion of growth and construction downtown. But social change tore at the citys fabric. Racial tension and violence during court-ordered school desegregation in the mid-1970s stained Bostons image, perhaps indelibly.
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MarianJack
(10,237 posts)RIP Mayor White.
PEACE!
MADem
(135,425 posts)That poor guy, bless his heart, had easily the worst comb-over in the history of comb-overs. If his part had gone any further south, it would have been below his hip!
RIP, Kev. Fair winds, and all that.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I think they both had the gavel, there.
Seems like yesterday, sometimes, other times like a thousand years ago!
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Sad to read this...
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)He had altzheimer's didn't he?
MADem
(135,425 posts)He was such an interesting man.
hyphenate
(12,496 posts)Growing up as I did in Boston, and living through the desegregation era myself. Still, he was a better alternative to Louise Day Hicks.
Critters2
(30,889 posts)he loved his city.
Sorry to hear he had Alzheimer's. Sorry to hear he's gone.