Harold Naughton Jr.
Harold "Hank" P. Naughton Jr. is an American politician. He is a state legislator who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1995 to 2021. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on July 4, 1960 and grew up in Clinton, Massachusetts, where he still resides with his wife, Ellen, and four children. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Naughton is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves. He has served as an Army JAG in both Iraq and Afghanistan where he saw combat. He has been awarded the Combat Action Badge, among other military awards.
On October 24, 2013, Naughton announced his candidacy for Attorney General of Massachusetts. He dropped out of the race in March 2014 and ran for reelection to the House instead. He did not run for reelection to a fourteenth term in 2020.