Michael F. Flaherty
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Michael F. Flaherty (b. 1969) is an at-large member of the Boston City Council. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. He was elected City Council President every year from 2002 to 2006.
Flaherty is from South Boston. His father, Michael F. Flaherty, Sr. is an associate justice on the Boston, Massachusetts Municipal Court and a former state representative.
Flaherty is a graduate of Boston College High School and Boston College, and earned his law degree at Boston University. Prior to being elected to the Council in 1999, he was an assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
He was re-elected in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007. He was the top vote-getter in the city council at-large race in 2003, 2005, and 2007. His margin of victory in 2005 over first runner-up City Councilor Felix D. Arroyo was 5,671 votes, the widest margin since the Council was restructured in 1983.
