James Douglas Muir Leno was born on April 28, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York to Angelo Leno, an insurance salesman, and Catherine (nee Muir), who was a Scottish immigrant. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, which at the time was a blue-collar town outside of Boston. After graduating from Andover High School in 1968, Leno went to the University of Massachusetts for three semesters before dropping out prior to the spring semester of 1970 after becoming frustrated with his poor grades and dyslexia. While at U-Mass, Leno was a brother in the Nu Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was active in a comedy troupe on campus.
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| - James Douglas Muir Leno was born on April 28, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York to Angelo Leno, an insurance salesman, and Catherine (nee Muir), who was a Scottish immigrant. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, which at the time was a blue-collar town outside of Boston. After graduating from Andover High School in 1968, Leno went to the University of Massachusetts for three semesters before dropping out prior to the spring semester of 1970 after becoming frustrated with his poor grades and dyslexia. While at U-Mass, Leno was a brother in the Nu Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was active in a comedy troupe on campus.
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| - James Douglas Muir Leno was born on April 28, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York to Angelo Leno, an insurance salesman, and Catherine (nee Muir), who was a Scottish immigrant. Leno grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, which at the time was a blue-collar town outside of Boston. After graduating from Andover High School in 1968, Leno went to the University of Massachusetts for three semesters before dropping out prior to the spring semester of 1970 after becoming frustrated with his poor grades and dyslexia. While at U-Mass, Leno was a brother in the Nu Kappa Epsilon fraternity and was active in a comedy troupe on campus. After dropping out of UMass, Leno got a job as a forklift driver at a Boston shipyard and then became a warehouse worker in 1972, becoming involved in union work. He became close to Joseph Kennedy III, then a local Boston politician, and got involved in labor activism, being picked to head the Suffolk County Labor Board in 1975 for his charisma and street smarts. In 1976, an Irish mobster named Rudy McGuff-Willis allegedly attempted to assassinate Leno at the behest of Irish-American business interests angered at the influence exerted in Boston by an Italian-American and his general campaigns against their power. Leno survived the gunshot wound to his side and was honored by then-Massachusetts Governor Patrick Devaney. By 1980, Leno had accrued a great deal of power and was assigned by Governor Devaney to the Massachusetts State Labor Board - that same year, he married Mavis Nicholson, a feminist activist active in Massachusetts after moving there from California. In 1983, Leno was made Chairman of the Massachusetts State Labor Board by Governor Tommy Perreckin, an influential position due to its weight in labor matters. During his 1998 gubernatorial campaign and 2004 Presidential campaign, allegations of graft and bribery surfaced dating back to his stint as the board's chairman. Leno resigned from the board in early 1986 to put together a Senate run to challenge Nationalist Senator Daniel Oyst for his seat.
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