Patrick T. Campbell

Patrick Thomas Campbell (April 14, 1871 – February 12, 1937) was an American educator who served as superintendent of Boston Public Schools from 1931 to 1937.

His father was a shipwright and a lack of jobs in the Boston shipyards after the Civil War caused the Campbells to move to New Jersey.

Thomas Campbell died in 1872 and his mother returned to East Boston to live with family.

During his tenure as headmaster, the average success rate of the Latin's students in the college entrance board exam jumped from 73.4% to 91.4% and the school's students had the highest weighted average at the examination for four consecutive years.

[6] His funeral was moved to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross because it was the only Catholic church large enough to hold the thousands of mourners who turned out.