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Thomas C. O'Brien

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and O'Brien received 2% of the vote in the presidential election. In the Senate election, O'Brien received 10% and 1.6% of the vote in the Democratic and Republican primaries, respectively, and 7.4% of the vote in the general election on the Union ticket.
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in 1912 and 1913. He was appointed to the state parole board in 1913 and from 1916 to 1919 he was deputy director of prisons. In 1919 he was appointed Boston's commissioner of penal institutions by Mayor
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O'Brien, Thomas C.. The People's Candidate for Mayor: Thomas C. O'Brien; Let the Boys Read it. United States: Buck Print. Company, 1925.
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This group includes only pre-1996 parties that fielded a candidate that won greater 0.1% of the popular vote in at least one presidential election
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to join the Union Party, a political party formed by supporters of Rev.
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A longtime labor lawyer, O'Brien served as regional counsel for the
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Historical left-wing third-party U.S. presidential tickets
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District attorneys in Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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Suffolk County
Joseph Pelletier
William J. Foley
Boston
Massachusetts
Boston
Massachusetts
Democratic
Union
Harvard University
BA
LLB
Suffolk County, Massachusetts
United States vice-presidential nominee
Union Party
1936 United States presidential election
Brighton
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
Irish-American
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Andrew James Peters
Joseph C. Pelletier
Malcolm Nichols
Theodore A. Glynn
Joseph H. O'Neil
Daniel H. Coakley
William J. Foley
United States Senate

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