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Michael Dukakis (1933)
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Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts history. He was the second Greek American governor in U.S. history after Spiro Agnew.
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Dukakis is married to Katharine D. Dukakis. The couple's children are John, Andrea, and Kara. Kara is married to David Onek. During the second presidential debate on October 13, 1988, in Los Angeles, Dukakis revealed that he and his wife had had another child, who died about twenty minutes after birth.The Dukakises continue to reside in Michael's boyhood home in Brookline, Massachusetts, but live in Los Angeles during the winter while he teaches at UCLA. Had Dukakis been elected, he would have been only the second US President to have had two immigrant parents. Andrew Jackson is the only president to have been born of two immigrants.
He is the cousin of actress Olympia Dukakis.
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