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John A. Volpe
John Anthony Volpe (; December 8, 1908November 11, 1994) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1969, as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1969 to 1973 and as the United States Ambassador to Italy from 1973 to 1977.〔
== Early life and education ==
Volpe was born on December 8, 1908 in Wakefield, Massachusetts.〔"John Volpe, The Life of An Immigrant's Son", Kathleen Kilgore, Yankee Books, 1987, pages 19-20〕 He was the son of Italian immigrants Vito and Filomena (Benedetto), who had come from Abruzzo to Boston's North End on the SS Canopic in 1905; his father was in the construction business.
Volpe attended the Wentworth Institute (later known as the Wentworth Institute of Technology) in Boston where he majored in architectural construction and entered the construction business, building his own firm in 1930.〔("Biography: John A. Volpe" ), US Department of Transportation〕 On June 18, 1934, Volpe married the former Giovaninna Benedetto known as Jennie, with whom he had two children, (John Anthony, Jr. and Loretta Jean Volpe Rotondi).
During World War II, he volunteered to serve stateside as a United States Navy Seabees training officer.
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