{{Short description|American politician (born 1951)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John MacGovern | image = 1985 John MacGovern Middlesex Representative Massachusetts.jpg | caption = MacGovern in 1985 | state_house = Massachusetts | district = 2nd Middlesex | term_start = January 3, 1983 | term_end = January 3, 1991 | predecessor = Walter Bickford | successor = Geoff Hall | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|07|14}} | birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | education = Dartmouth College (BA) }} '''John F. MacGovern''' (born July 14, 1951) is an American politician who represented the 2nd Middlesex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991.<ref>{{cite book |title=1989–1990 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |url=https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19891990bost#page/176/mode/2up}}</ref> He was the Republican nominee in the Massachusetts's 5th congressional district election in 1990, losing to incumbent Chester G. Atkins 52% to 48%.<ref>{{cite news|title=Atkins Concedes Lousy Bookkepping|newspaper=Worcester Telegram & Gazette|date=March 28, 1992}}</ref> He later moved to Vermont. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Vermont Senate in 2004<ref>{{cite news|title=Further state election results|newspaper=The Burlington Free Press|date=November 4, 2004}}</ref> and 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smallheer|first=Susan|title=Windsor elects two Democrats, re-elects one to state Senate|newspaper=Rutland Herald|date=November 9, 2006}}</ref> He unsuccessfully ran as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat held by Bernie Sanders in the 2012 election.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ring|first=Wilson|title=Vt. Democratic AG race too close to call|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/2012/08/28/votes-primary-decide-gop-senate/zb2Pl3WPbHKFa5ej8M8AgO/story.html|accessdate= August 29, 2012|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=August 28, 2012}}{{dead link|date=May 2026|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{C-SPAN|357}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030205257/http://johnmacgovern.com/ John MacGovern for Senate] ''official campaign site'' * {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=51216 | fec= | congress= }}<!-- Links formerly displayed via the CongLinks template: * [http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/John_MacGovern.htm Issue positions and quotes] at On the Issues * -->
==See also== *United States Senate election in Vermont, 2012 *United States House of Representatives elections, 1990
{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-ma-hs}} {{s-bef|before=Walter Bickford}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives<br>from the 2nd Middlesex district|years=1983–1991}} {{s-aft|after=Geoff Hall}} |- {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=Richard Tarrant}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Vermont}}<br>(Class 1)|years=2012}} {{s-aft|after=Brooke Paige}} {{s-end}}
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