death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor title party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
hyannis , massachusetts 31 july 1998 newland leo sullivan h. holmes chester a. dolan , jr. . boston , massachusetts maurice a. donahue fred i. lamson joe moakley president massachusetts senate member of the massachusetts senate from the 4th of suffolk district the massachusetts senate minority leader of the democratic november 10 , 1910 1959 1950 1947 john e. powers
 1964 1959 1964 john e. powers
john e. powers

john e. powers -lrb- november 10 , 1910 -- july 31 , 1998 -rrb- was an american politician who served as president of the massachusetts senate from 1959 to 1964 .
powers , a former clam digger , messenger , and machine operator , served as a state senator from boston from 1940 to 1964 and supreme judicial court of suffolk county from 1964 to 1988 .
he was twice a candidate for mayor of boston .
he finished second to incumbent john b. hynes in the 1955 primary and general election .
following hynes ' retirement , powers became the front-runner for the mayorship .
powers had the most votes in 1959 the primary , but lost to city councilman john f. collins in the runoff election .
