Thomas P. Glynn
| Thomas P. Glynn III | |
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| Massachusetts Port Authority CEO | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas J. Kinton Jr. |
| United States Deputy Secretary of Labor | |
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In office 1993–1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Delbert L. Spurlock, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Kathryn O. Higgins |
| General Manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | |
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In office 1989–1991 |
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| Preceded by | James O'Leary |
| Succeeded by | John J. Haley Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Residence | Belmont, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater |
Tufts University Brandeis University |
Thomas P. Glynn III is an American government official who is the current chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority and former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and United States Deputy Secretary of Labor.
Glynn attended Tufts University, where he majored in economics and was a campus activist. He took an active role in protests against the Vietnam War, the Central Intelligence Agency, Dow Chemical, and "white racism". He also took part in demonstrations urging Tufts administration to ban military recruiters from campus. In 1968 he was selected to be that year's Mr. Tufts, the highest honor for an undergraduate student. He turned down a nomination for a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship, as he did not want to go into teaching He later earned a master's degree and doctorate in public management from Brandeis University.
Glynn began his career in government as an economic policy analyst for Massachusetts Governor Francis W. Sargent. In 1977 he moved to Washington D.C., where he worked in the office of U.S. Representative Michael J. Harrington. He then served as policy director for ACTION and later as staff director for Vice President Walter Mondale's commission on youth issues. He returned to Massachusetts in 1981 to become associate dean at Brandeis' Heller School of Social Welfare. He also served as an issues manager during Michael Dukakis' 1982 gubernatorial campaign. From 1983 to 1988 he was the deputy state welfare commissioner, where he helped develop the Employment and Training Choices program for mothers on public assistance. He then served as a political advisor to Dukakis during his 1988 presidential campaign and as general manager of the World Trade Center conference center in South Boston.
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