Article: John Finnegan, `gentle' politician; Lifelong Worcester politician dies at 72.(LOCAL NEWS)(Obituary)

Byline: Mark Melady

WORCESTER - John F. "Jack" Finnegan, who reluctantly turned out the lights on county government as the last chairman of the Worcester County Board of Commissioners, and who prevailed in one of the fiercest City Council races in recent memory, died Sunday. He was 72.

Friends and former foes remembered Mr. Finnegan as an easygoing, kind man, "the nicest man you'd ever want to meet," said former city councilor and longtime friend Timothy J. Cooney Jr. "People loved him."

"He was a consummate gentleman," said Frederick C. Rushton, the councilor who now represents District 5, which for one term in the late 1990s was Mr. ...

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