Michael Dukakis Biography

Michael Stanley Dukakis graduated from Brookline High School (1951) Swarthmore College (1955) and Harvard Law School (1960). He served for two years in the United States Army sixteen months of which he spent with the Support Group to the UN Delegation to the Military Armistice commission in Munsan Korea. Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman of his town's Democratic organization in 1960 and won a seat in the Massachusetts legislature in 1962. He served four terms as a legislator winning re-election by an increasing margin each time he ran. In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Lieutenant- Governor and the running mate of Boston Mayor Kevin White in that year's gubernatorial race which they lost to Republicans Frank Sargeant and Donald Dwight. Dukakis won his party's nomination for governor in 1974 and beat Sargeant decisively in November of that year. He inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. But the effort took its toll and Dukakis was defeated in the Democratic Primary in 1978 by Edward King.

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