Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was a Britishborn lawyer and politician in the United States state of Massachusetts. He served in the United States House of Representatives and was the states 38th governor. He was elected three consecutive times, but died early in his third term. He was the states first foreignborn governor.
Frederic Thomas Greenhalge was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England on July 19, 1842, to William Greenhalgh and Jane Greenhalgh. He was the only son . His father, the supervisor of a printing operation, was descended from the Greenhalghs, a family of longstanding note in Lancashire. The family moved first to Eshton and then Edenfield, where the young Greenhalge attended private school. In 1855 the family immigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts, where the father had been offered a job heading the printing department of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company.
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