John Joseph Moakley (April 27, 1927 – May 28, 2001) was an American politician who served as the United States representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district from 1973 until his death in 2001.

Moakley was the last Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules before Republicans took control of the chamber in 1995.

[2] After returning home, Moakley attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida from 1950 to 1951, and he received his LL.B.

Moakley was a member of the Portuguese American Civic Club located in Taunton, Massachusetts.

[3] After the retirement of longtime Congressman John W. McCormack, Moakley ran for the Democratic nomination in the Ninth District but lost to Boston School Committee chair Louise Day Hicks, who gained support based on her opposition to school desegregation.

[4] Moakley led a special panel that investigated the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador.

The three-story building houses a large computer lab, a television studio, an auditorium, and numerous classrooms.

[2] His body was interred in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree, Massachusetts.