Congressman Mark B. Sellner, Democrat of Massachusetts, is the the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Representative from Massachusett's 4th Congressional District. Mark Bartholomew Sellner, born 1946 to Thomas and Elsie Sellner in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended St. Joseph's School a perochial school for junior high and high school that was four miles away from his house. After high-school he feared the draft despite being accepted to college and so he entered into the Coast Guard Reserves serving from 1964 until 1967. In 1968 he began attending the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he got his undergraduate degree in history; he then attended Boston College between 1972 and 1974 where he got his law degree. He was admitted to the BAR in early 1975 and became a