Actually it was a eulogy when the author said: To have lived a long life. to have left the lot of many of those around you a little bit better than it once was. to have been genuinely loved by a great many people. and to have died in Gods good grace. is no small thing to have happened to any man. Truly in the annals of American city politics never has there been a more controversial figure than James Michael Curley. Born of immigrant parents. living in the teeming tenement district where the masses lived who had come from Ireland because of a great potato famine. working at driving trucks. as laborers and as hod carriers for coolie wages. he thought the plight of his fellow men could best be served if he entered public life. He had a long and glorious and yet a turbulent career. He was elected as a member of the Boston Common Council in 1900 and 1901.
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