What is Martha Coakley?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Martha Coakley |image = Martha Coakley Suffolk Feb2014.jpg |caption = Coakley in 2014 |office = 43rd [[Massachusetts Attorney General|Attorney General of Massachusetts]] |governor = [[Deval Patrick]]<br>[[Charlie Baker]] |term_start = January 17, 2007 |term_end = January 21, 2015 |predecessor = [[Thomas Reilly (Massachusetts politician)|Thomas Reilly]] |successor = [[Maura Healey]] |office1 = [[Massachusetts]] District Attorney for the [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Northern District]] |term_start1 = January 3, 1999 |term_end1 = January 17, 2007 |predecessor1 = Thomas Reilly |successor1 = [[Gerard Leone]] |birth_name = Martha Mary Coakley |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|7|14}} |birth_place = [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Thomas O'Connor |education = [[Williams College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Boston University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]]) }} '''Martha Mary Coakley''' (born July 14, 1953) is the [[Attorney General]] of [[Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Martha Coakley|publisher=Martha Coakley|url=http://www.marthacoakley.com/about|accessdate=Jan 15, 2014|archive-date=March 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330080055/http://www.marthacoakley.com/about|url-status=dead}}</ref> Before that, she was the [[District Attorney]] for [[Middlesex County, Massachusetts]] (1999-2007). She is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]. She was born in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]]. In 2010, Coakley was the Democratic nominee for the [[United States Senate]] in the special election to replace [[Ted Kennedy]] following his death, but lost to Republican [[Scott Brown]]. ==References== <references/> {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Coakley, Martha}} [[Category:Massachusetts attorneys general]] [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:District attorneys]] [[C