Paul Cellucci
Argeo Paul Cellucci ( born April 24, 1948 in Hudson, Massachusetts, † June 8, 2013 ibid ) an American politician ( Republican). From 1997 to 2001 he was the 69th Governor of Massachusetts.
Life
Paul Cellucci made in 1970 graduated from the School of Management at Boston College; three years later he passed his law exams at the local law school. He served from 1970 to 1978 in the Army Reserve, from which he retired with the rank of Captain. He worked both as a car dealer in the family business as well as a lawyer in a law firm in Hudson.
From 1971 to 1977 Cellucci was a member of the City Council of Hudson. He then sat four legislative sessions in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, from which he moved to the state Senate in 1985. During his third term, he served as Deputy Republican faction leader. In 1990 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and thus deputy to Governor William Weld. When he resigned because he had been nominated as the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Cellucci followed him first as acting; In 1998, he then won with 50.8 percent of the vote, the election to a private office to Democrat Scott Harshbarger.
As governor, Paul Cellucci profiled with classical republican positions in financial policy. He called for a streamlining of the government apparatus and announced on the first day of his term, a significant reduction in the income tax. Other priorities of his government work were educational reform and the fight against domestic violence. Like his predecessors, he did not finish his term because he was offered the post of U.S. ambassador. In contrast to William Weld, whose appointment was never confirmed by the Senate, he entered this office also and represented U.S. interests in Canada as successor to Gordon Giffin from 17 April 2001 to 17 March 2005.
Cellucci resigned from the ambassadorship to accept an offer from the auto parts manufacturer Magna International. There he spent a year working before he moved to the Boston law firm McCarter & English. In 2011, ill Celluci amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in consequence of which he died in June 2013. He leaves behind his wife and two daughters together.