Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kevin Hagan White is an American politician best known as the Mayor of Boston, a position he held from 1968 to 1984. White was educated at Tabor Academy, Williams College, Boston College Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration. Prior to his term as Mayor of Boston, he served as Secretary of the Commonwealth from 1961 1967. White successfully ran for mayor in 1967 on a populist platform that included support for rent control. One of his slogans was "When landlords raise rents, Kevin White raises hell." Rent control became the law in Boston in 1970. White narrowly defeated Boston School Board member Louise Day Hicks, who had taken a strong anti-desegregation position as a member of the Boston School Committee. Hicks' slogan was the coded "You know where I stand." White won by approximately 12,000 votes after he was endorsed by The Boston Globe, the paper's first political endorsement in decades