page_title: Deval Patrick
section_title: Post-gubernatorial political activity
hierarchical_section_title: Deval Patrick / Post-gubernatorial political activity
caption_attribution_description: Benito Juarez High School, February 25, 2016
context_page_description: Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, author, and businessman who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts, from 2007 to 2015. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney, who chose not to run for reelection to focus on his presidential campaign. He was reelected in 2010. He was the first African American Governor of Massachusetts. A Democrat, Patrick served from 1994 to 1997 as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
  Raised largely by a single mother on the South Side of Chicago, Patrick earned a scholarship to Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts in the eighth grade. He went on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After graduating, he practiced law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and later joined a Boston law firm, where he was named a partner at age 34.
context_section_description: Patrick joined the board of Our Generation Speaks.
  He served as senior advisor to the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force.
caption: Patrick at a public meeting for the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force on February 23, 2016
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