Background
His mother, Lynda Connolly recently retired as a Massachusetts court judge. His father, Michael J. Connolly, is a former Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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John Connolly
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During his high school years, Connolly attended Roxbury Latin School. After graduating he earned his Bachelor of Arts cum laude from and later earned his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School.
Career
He was first elected in November 2007. Meg is a psychologist and former social worker In 1998 he taught at the Boston Renaissance Charter School.
After graduating from Boston College Law School, Connolly began his legal career with the firm Ropes and Gray.
He started his own law firm, Schofield Campbell & Connolly, with two other Boston residents. On November 3, 2007 Connolly"s campaign for City Councilor At-Large admitted to mailing literature about incumbent councilor Stephen J. Murphy which until that point came from an unknown source.
The acknowledgement came after a Boston Herald columnist accused the candidate of sending the unsigned, unattributed flyers. On February 26, 2013, Connolly announced he would stand in the 2013 mayoral election.
Connolly finished the second of twelve in the preliminary election in September 2013, behind State Representative Marty Walsh.
On November 5, 2013, he lost the general election to Marty Walsh.
