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Last week, over strong, longstanding protests from the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association and the chief judge of the court involved, Morrissey, 55, a Boston political wheelhorse and municipal court justice, took a big step toward achieving that goal. He was nominated for a Massachusetts federal judgeship by President Johnson...
...Like a Governess." Frank Morrissey got there by taking what in Boston was the surest route to the top of his chosen career. He made himself endlessly useful to the Kennedy clan. If he lacked the depth or background for knighthood in the Irish Mafia, Teetotaler Morrissey had the unquestioning loyalty, energy and discretion to become a prized sergeant at arms...
...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...
Helping Jack. One of twelve children of a Boston stevedore, Frank Morrissey was raised in Boston's Charlestown area -a section that even today is so poor that Negro mothers refuse to allow their children to be bussed to white schools there. After two years at Boston College, Frank quit to take a job with the state, enrolled for night courses at Suffolk University Law School in Boston...
Kennedy paterfamilias at that time was hopeful that Son John would enter politics on his return from the Navy. Morrissey volunteered to help - and soon became known as Joe's eyes and ears in Boston's tough 11th District, the fief of Honey Fitz, Jack's maternal grandfather. An eloquent speaker himself, Frank coached Jack Kennedy in political oratory, gave him a cram course in ward politics, and later competently managed his home office when Jack went to Washington...