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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick yesterday named his former chief of staff, William Cowan, to fill temporarily the US Senate seat that John Kerry will vacate this week.
The Democratic appointee told reporters he had no plans to run in the June 25 special election to choose a permanent successor to Kerry.
“I’m going down in this temporary period to continue the good work that Senator Kerry and his team has been doing,” said Cowan, 43, a former civil rights lawyer with the Boston firm Mintz, Levin. “Senator Kerry has worked in close partnership with Governor Patrick and so you can expect me to do the same.”
Cowan will become the second African-American in the current Senate, a distinction that Patrick, who is Massachusetts’ first black governor, said influenced his choice.
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