Talk:Governor of Massachusetts
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[edit] William Gaston
The link to William Gaston is to the wrong William Gaston. There is currently no page for Governor William Gaston. I am unsure how to add a page for someone with an identical name. If someone can do this, please fix the link.
Thank you.
- Done! See William Gaston (Massachusetts). —Markles 22:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] add plymouth governors
If the governors of Mass. Bay colony are going to be included here, then the governors of the Plymouth colony should also be listed here, as what is Massachusetts today was not just what the Massachusetts Bay Clony was then.
[edit] Residency
Out of curiosity, are Congressmen who represent Massachusetts not eligible because they apparently reside mostly in Washington, D.C.?
- No, I don't think so. I believe a requirement for a Congressman is to be a resident of the state he or she is representing, so obviously that means a Massachusetts Congressman officially is a resident of Massachusetts.
[edit] Acting Govs
In the new table, with Acting Governors denoted with an 'A' in place of a number, it seems a little redundant to place the words 'Acting Governor' under their name. The only exception I think would be someone like Celucci who was both Acting Gov and Gov in his own right at different times. --Briancua 14:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Did they write '£'s into the constitution?
Granted this was the currency of the colonial era, but after the Declaration of Independence, when these positions were created - surely not?
To be eligible for either office, a candidate must have lived in Massachusetts for at least seven years immediately preceding his election, and originally also had to be a Christian owning at least £1,000 worth of real property.
OMG, it's true!
Article II
The governor shall be chosen [annually]; and no person shall be eligible to this office, unless at the time of his election, he shall have been an inhabitant of this commonwealth for seven years next preceding; [and unless he shall at the same time, be seised in his own right, of a freehold within the commonwealth of the value of one thousand pounds; and unless he shall declare himself to be of the Christian religion.] [See Amendments, Articles. VII, XXXIV, LXIV and LXXX.]
The clincher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_pound
