- Source: 1964 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1964 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1964. Incumbent Governor Endicott Peabody ran for re-election, but was defeated by then-Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti in the Democratic Party primary. Bellotti went on to lose the general election to former Governor John Volpe.
The race between Volpe and Bellotti was the first time in Massachusetts history that the two major parties backed sons of Italian immigrants for governor.
This was the final election held before the governor's term of office was extended from two to four years.
Democratic primary
= Candidates
=Francis Bellotti, Lieutenant Governor
Pasquale Caggiano, perennial candidate
John J. Droney, Middlesex County District Attorney
Endicott Peabody, incumbent Governor
Declined
Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General (brother of President John F. Kennedy)
= Results
=Republican primary
= Candidates
=John Volpe, former Governor
Defeated at convention
Philip A. Graham, State Senator from Hamilton and Senate Minority Leader
Francis W. Perry, State Representative from Duxbury and nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 1962
Withdrew
Edward Brooke, Attorney General of Massachusetts (withdrew ahead of convention, ran for re-election)
= Results
=Volpe ran unopposed in the Republican primary.
General election
= Results
=Volpe defeated Bellotti by less than 25,000 votes. Volpe's victory came in a year in which Democrats gained seats in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and Lyndon Johnson won the presidential election in a landslide.
See also
1963–1964 Massachusetts legislature
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