Brian J. Donnelly

Brian Joseph Donnelly ( born March 2, 1946 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 1993 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Brian Donnelly attended private schools in his home and thereafter until 1963, the Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury. Then he studied until 1970 at the Boston University. In the following years he was a teacher and coach in the public schools in Boston. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1973 and 1978 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Donnelly was the eleventh electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James A. Burke on January 3, 1979. After six re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1993 seven legislative sessions. In 1992 he gave up another candidacy. Between 1994 and 1997, Donnelly was the successor of Sally G. Cowal U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. In 1998 he went to in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial elections, but finished only third behind the victorious Scott Harshbarger and Patricia McGovern.