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Henry A. Scagnoli was an American government official who served as deputy mayor and fire commissioner during the administration of Boston Mayor John F. Collins.
Scagnoli in the 1960s
John F. Collins
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John Frederick Collins was an American lawyer who served as the mayor of Boston from 1960 to 1968. Collins was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1947 to 1955. He and his childr
Henry Scagnoli
…A. Scagnoli (1922–2015) was an American government official who served as deputy mayor and fire commissioner during the administration of Boston Mayor John F. Collins. Scagnoli was born on May 6, 1922, in Jamaica Plain. He graduated from Jamaica Plain High School in 1939. During high school he took a typing and…
Portrait of Collins in the 1960s
Collins (third from right) with then-congressman John F. Kennedy (fourth from right) and other members of the Massachusetts delegation at the 1952 Democratic National Convention
Collins with Massachusetts U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall (1945–1967). In 1966, Collins ran to succeed Saltonstall when Saltonstall retired but lost in the Democratic primary to former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody (who in turn lost to Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke).
Collins with Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth Kevin White (1961–1967). White would succeed Collins following the 1967 mayoral election.