James Michael Curley was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, as the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, and as Governor of Massachusetts. Curley was born to immigrants from County Galway, Ireland. His father Michael Curley (1850-1884) settled in Roxbury in 1864 and worked as an unskilled laborer. He died after lifting a heavy object and spending three days in a coma. Wikipedia
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The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley . Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1993; Curley, James Michael. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000996/
The definitive Wikipedia entry for James Michael Curley. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michael_Curley
The city-owned Curley Mansion at 350 Jamaica Way in Jamaica Plain is on the Irish Heritage Trail . James Michael Curley Park , on the Freedom Trail near Faneuil Hall, includes two statues of Curley. www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=317
