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Thomas F. Reilly (
February 14,
1942) was the 45th
Massachusetts attorney general. He was born in
Springfield, Massachusetts to
Irish immigrant parents.
He was one of three
candidates for the
Democratic nomination for the office of
Governor in the
Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006, along with businessman
Chris Gabrieli and former
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Deval Patrick, who won the party's nomination, and the general election.
Early life
Reilly, a native of
Springfield, Massachusetts, described himself as a "misguided youth" the year his father, Mortimer "Murty" Reilly, was found dead at home from a
heart attack when Reilly was 16. Reilly was arrested for public drunkenness when he was 20. By age 22, he was focused with driving ambition, much to the credit of his friend
Wayne Budd's father, an ex-
Marine turned policeman in Springfield who took him under his wing and encouraged him to go to school.
Reilly attended
Cathedral High School in
Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated in
1959. After graduating high school, he went off to college in
Nova Scotia at
St. Francis Xavier University. He stayed there only a year, transferring to
American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated on
June 7 1964. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
In July
1966, Reilly married Ruth Gammons (b.
1941), now a retired schoolteacher. The couple have three daughters: Leslie (b.
1968), Meaghan (b.
1973), and Kyle (b.
1980).
Reilly moved to
Washington, D.C. and worked for two years with the
Central Intelligence Agency. For one year, Reilly lived in
Dearborn, Michigan, where he worked with the
Ford Motor Company as a Labor Relations Representative until 1967. Reilly attended
Boston College Law School and received his
JD in June 1970.
Reilly worked for two years as a prosecutor in the state Attorney General's
civil rights division. He worked for four years as a
Suffolk County prosecutor. In 1976, Reilly and Budd formed “Budd and Reilly”, a Boston-based law firm. The firm became the largest minority-dominated firm in
New England.
Political career
Reilly left the law firm in 1983 to work in
Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger's administration as First Assistant District Attorney. In 1990, Reilly was elected Middlesex County District Attorney. He was reelected for a second term.
Reilly ran for attorney general in
1998 against state Senator
Lois Pines and won the Democratic Primary. He defeated Republican Brad Bsailey in the November election. He was reelected for a second term in
2002.
On
November 30,
2005 Reilly said that he was conducting an investigation of
Sony BMG over their use of the XCP Digital Rights Management
DRM on Sony audio CDs. See
2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
In January 2006, Reilly came under fire for allegedly impeding an investigation into an October 2005 automobile crash which left two
Southborough, Massachusetts teens dead, and another teen injured. Reilly admitted publicly that he advised the Worcester County District Attorney that he didn't have to give local police a
toxicology report showing the
blood alcohol level of the teens.
Reilly has come under fire for abusing his regulatory authority for political purposes (see
Gun Owners Action League article
).
On
January 24 2006, Reilly officially kicked off his first gubernatorial campaign in Springfield at his alma mater
American International College (
see Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006). He finished third in the primary on
September 19 2006. He left the race, and his opponent, Deval Patrick, went on to win the general election.
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