BOSTON -- Kevin H. White, a four-term mayor who led Boston through years of racial violence and economic stagnation and was credited with putting the city on a path to prosperity, has died. He was 82.
Mr. White, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003, died Friday night at his Beacon Hill home surrounded by his family, said George Regan, a family spokesman and friend."He was a man who built Boston into the world-class city it is today," Regan said.Mr. White, a white Irish Catholic from a family of politicians, is credited with seeing the city through court-ordered busing in the 1970s.He was mayor from 1967 to 1983.Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said, "For 16 years, the mayor shepherded the city through the turbulence of the late '60s and mid-'70s and in the process ushered in the remarkable city we know today."Survivors include his wife, Kathyrn Galvin White; and five children.Have more to add? News tip? Tell us
