James W. Hennigan, Jr.

Who is James W. Hennigan, Jr.?

James William Hennigan, Jr. is a former Massachusetts State legislator.

Hennigan graduated from Babson Institute Suffolk University Law School. He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955, the Massachusetts Senate from 1955 to 1965 and a member of the Boston School Committee from 1970 to 1974.

Hennigan ran for mayor of Boston in 1959, but lost that election. He was also the Democratic nominee for Massachusetts Attorney General in 1964, but lost to Edward Brooke. He was a driving force behind his daughter Maura Hennigan's unsuccessful 2005 attempt to become mayor of Boston.

Hennigan is the Hennigan referred to in Morgan v. Hennigan since he was head of the Boston School Committee at the time. However Hennigan had been the leading advocate of trying to implement integration on the School Committee.