• Office Sought: Representative, Massachusetts (8)
• Birth Date: Jan. 9, 1952
• Occupation: Attorney
• Religion: Catholic
• Web site: http://www.house.gov/capuano

Education

• Boston College Law School, JD
• Dartmouth College, BA

Michael Everett Capuano was born in the working-class city of Somerville, Mass., and has lived there all his life. He was named after his grandfathers, Michael Capuano, an Italian orphan who immigrated to America alone at 18, and Everett Garvey, the son of Irish immigrants. His father, Andrew Capuano, was a disabled World War II veteran who was the first Italian-American elected official in Somerville history.

Capuano attended Somerville public schools. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1973, he earned a law degree at Boston College law school in 1977 and went on to work as a tax attorney.

His first elected office was alderman in Somerville in 1977. He also worked for the taxation committee in the Massachusetts Legislature and as a tax attorney for the Boston law firm Joyce and Joyce from 1984 until January 1990, when he became Somerville's mayor.

Capuano was first elected to the U.S. House in 1998.

He met his wife, Barbara Teebagy, in a high school chemistry class. They have two children.