"A very private man in very public office" is how biographer Garrison Nelson describes John W ... McCormack: A Political Biography." "That was the plan. He did not want to be Speaker of the ...

D.C., office of John W. McCormack, the US House majority leader from South Boston. McCormack would ascend to House speaker in a few years, and Winship would take over as editor of the Globe ...

John W. McCormack, a Massachusetts congressman for four decades and speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1962 to 1971, was born 125 years ago today. And while his long life ended 36 ...

So the next in line of succession in November 1963 was -- and remains today -- the speaker of the House. He was, of course in those days, a Democrat, John W. McCormack, a career politician ...

Garrison Nelson’s biography of John W. McCormack. The title may be austere ... Morris Udall, of Arizona, challenged his re-election to be speaker. McCormack easily prevailed.

McCormack. The favorite nephew of House Speaker John W. McCormack faces Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy '54 in the contest for the Democratic Senatorial nomination for this year. Harry F. Greene '63 hopes ...

Rep. John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives, will receive tomorrow a hand-carved desk, a gift of Israeli students at Boys Town in Jerusalem. The desk, which was carved by Boys ...

Speaker of the House John W. McCormack commended today the dignity and propriety of unprecedented, two-day Rosh Hashanah services conducted in the Congressional nondenominational chapel ...