Ken Donnelly
- April 2, 2017
- 66 years
- complications from a brain tumor
About Ken Donnelly
Ken Donnelly, 66, American politician, member of the Massachusetts State Senate (since 2009), complications from a brain tumor.
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|Kenneth J. Donnelly (July 15, 1950 – April 2, 2017) was a Massachusetts state senator for the Fourth Middlesex district, which included his hometown of Arlington and several other cities. He was a Democrat who served from 2009 to 2017.
Donnelly graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA degree in Labor Studies.
He was a retired lieutenant with the Lexington Fire Department in Lexington, Massachusetts.
On June 17, 2014, Donnelly endorsed fellow Democrat Don Berwick in the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.
Donnelly died on April 2, 2017, in Arlington, Massachusetts, from complications of a brain tumor, aged 66.
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