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Brian Joseph Donnelly (born March 2, 1946) of Dorchester, Boston was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. He was a Democrat.
Donnelly attended private schools in Suffolk County. He graduated from Catholic Memorial High School, West Roxbury, in 1963. He received a B.S. from Boston University in 1970. He was a teacher and coach in the Boston public schools. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1973–1978, where he served as assistant majority leader in 1977–1978.
Donnelly was elected as a Democrat to the 96th and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979–January 3, 1993), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress.
In 1994, he was named U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.[1] He served in this capacity until 1997.[2] In 1998, he ran for Governor of Massachusetts, finishing third in the Democratic primary behind state Attorney General Scott Harshbarger and former State Senator Patricia McGovern.[3]