Patrick Appoints Former Staff Chief Cowan to Kerry Senate
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed his former chief of staff, William “Mo” Cowan, to replace John Kerry for five months, making him the only black member of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate.
Kerry, a Democrat whom the Senate confirmed as the next secretary of state yesterday, plans to resign his seat Feb. 1 and Cowan will fill it until a June 25 special election. A graduate of Duke University and Northeastern University Law School in Boston, Cowan is a former partner in the law firm Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC. Most recently, he was a special adviser to Patrick.