Galllivan Boulevard was named for James A. Gallivan, 1866-1928
No. 22688 James Ambrose Gallivan
The Southern Artery in Dorchester and Mattapan was created in the late 1920s by improving Morton Street from Blue Hill Avenue to Codman Street and improving Codman Street from there eastward. At Adams Corner, a new road was created to extend to Neponset.
The following is from The Boston Globe, February 15, 1929
Personalities were indulged in, one man’s patriotism was questioned, and even the Mayflower was brought into the hearing that the Street Commissioners held at City Hall this forenoon on the petition of Eugene T. Kinnally to name permanently the stretch of roadway along what was formerly called Morton and Codman Sts, in Dorchester, and now temporarily called the Southern Artery, the Gallivan Boulevard, in memory of the late Congressman James A. Gallivan
James Ambrose Gallivan (October 22, 1866 – April 3, 1928) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on October 22, 1866. Gallivan attended the public schools, graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1884 and from Harvard University in 1888. He then engaged in newspaper work. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1895 and 1896, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1897 to 1898. Gallivan served as street commissioner of Boston, and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James M. Curley. He was reelected to the Sixty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from April 7, 1914, until his death in Arlington on April 3, 1928. His interment was in St. Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury.
References
James A. Gallivan at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Arthur Milnor Bridgman, (1897), A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators, Volume VI