Thomas J. Boynton | |
Nationality: | American |
Title1: | United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts |
Term Start1: | 1917 |
Term End1: | 1920 |
Predecessor1: | George W. Anderson |
Successor1: | Daniel J. Gallagher |
Order2: | Massachusetts Attorney General |
Term Start2: | 1914 |
Term End2: | 1915 |
Majority2: | 8,102 |
Governor2: | David I. Walsh |
Predecessor2: | James M. Swift |
Successor2: | Henry Converse Atwill |
Office3: | Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention |
Term Start3: | June 6, 1917 |
Term End3: | April 6, 1918 |
Office4: | Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts |
Term Start4: | 1903[1] |
Term End4: | 1904 |
Term Start5: | 1905 |
Term End5: | 1907 |
Predecessor4: | Charles Bruce |
Successor4: | H. Heustis Newton |
Predecessor5: | H. Heustis Newton |
Successor5: | Charles Bruce |
Birth Date: | December 30, 1856 |
Birth Place: | Westfield, Vermont |
Party: | Democratic |
Thomas Jefferson Boynton (December 30, 1856 – April 14, 1945) was a U.S. political figure who served in 1882 as a member of the Vermont legislature, the city solicitor and the Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts and as the Massachusetts Attorney General. Boynton was born in Westfield, Vermont.
In 1916 the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention. In May 1917, Boynton was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the Twentieth Middlesex District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.