Gabriel Piemonte
{{Short description|American attorney and politician}}
Gabriel Francis Piemonte (January 28, 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts{{cite book |title=1951-1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | url=https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost#page/260/mode/2up }} – June 30, 1991 in Boston, Massachusetts{{cite news|last=Driscoll Jr.|first=Edgar J.|title=Gabriel Piemonte, 82; served in State House, on City Council|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59228655.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT|access-date=29 June 2011|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=July 2, 1991|archive-date=7 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107074239/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59228655.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT|url-status=dead}}) was an American attorney and politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1947 to 1952 and the Boston City Council from 1952 to 1960, 1962 to 1964, 1966 to 1968, and 1970 to 1974. In 1952 and from 1970 to 1972 he was the Council President.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for Suffolk County District Attorney in 1954,{{cite book |title=Massachusetts Election Statistics 1954 |pages=181 | url=https://archive.org/details/electionstatisti19531955mass/page/180/mode/2up?view=theater }} Mayor of Boston in 1959{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the Election Department|year=1960|pages=46|url=https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofbo1959bost#page/46/mode/2up}} and 1963{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the Election Department|year=1964|pages=114|url=https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofbo1963bost#page/114/mode/2up}} and Governor of Massachusetts in 1960.{{cite book |title=Election Statistics | url=https://archive.org/stream/electionstatisti19591960mass#page/158/mode/2up }}
Gabriel Piemonte was married to Evelyn Penta, and had four children; one son and three daughters.
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Category:Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Category:Presidents of the Boston City Council
Category:Suffolk University Law School alumni
Category:20th-century American lawyers
Category:20th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court