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{{short description|American politician and boxer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}
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|image= File:1983 A Joseph DeNucci Massachusetts House of Representatives.png
| office = 21st [[Massachusetts State Auditor|Auditor of Massachusetts]]
| term_start = 1987  
| term_end = 2011
| governor = [[Michael Dukakis]]<br>[[Bill Weld|William Weld]]<br>[[Paul Cellucci]]<br>[[Jane Swift]] (acting)<br>[[Mitt Romney]]<br>[[Deval Patrick]]
| predecessor =[[John J. Finnegan]] 
| successor = [[Suzanne Bump]]
| office1       = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]
| constituency1 = [[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 16th Middlesex district|16th Middlesex]] (1977–1979)<ref name="PubOfComm1977p138">{{Citation |last=O'Neill|first=Edward B.|title=1977-1978 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts|page= 138|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|location=Boston, MA|year=1977}}</ref> <br>[[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 10th Middlesex district|10th Middlesex]] (1979–1986)<ref name="PubOfComm1979p129"/>
| term_start1 =1977<ref name="PubOfComm1977p138"/> 
| term_end1 = 1986<ref name="PubOfComm1989p28">{{Citation |last=O'Neill|first=Edward B.|title=1989-1990 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts|page= 28|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|location=Boston, MA|year=1989}}</ref> 
| predecessor1 = [[Ed Markey]]
| successor1 = [[Anthony Mandile]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|8|30}}<ref name="PubOfComm1979p129"/>
| birth_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts]]<ref name="PubOfComm1979p129">{{citation |last=O'Neill|first=Edward B.|title=1979-1980 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |page=129|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|location=Boston, MA |year=1979}}</ref>  
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|9|8|1939|8|30}}
| death_place = 
| alma_mater = [[Boston University]]<ref name="PubOfComm1989p28"/> 
| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="PubOfComm1979p129"/>
}}

'''A. Joseph DeNucci''' (August 30, 1939 – September 8, 2017)<ref name=Boston>{{cite web |author=James V. Horrigan |title=Boston Uncommon/5 Things You Don't know about A. Joseph DeNucci – 06/20/2004 |work=Boston Globe Magazine |url=http://www.joedenucci.com/auditor.pdf |accessdate=September 20, 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922002713/http://www.joedenucci.com/auditor.pdf |archivedate=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an American boxer and politician who served as the [[Massachusetts State Auditor|Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]].

==Early life and career==
DeNucci started working at 10 in a [[bowling alley]], picking up and racking pins. DeNucci started boxing at 16, winning the New England [[Golden Gloves|Golden Gloves Championship]].<ref name=Auditor>{{cite web|title=A. Joseph DeNucci |work=Joe DeNucci State Auditor |url=http://www.joedenucci.com/boxing.htm |accessdate=September 20, 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021225075924/http://www.joedenucci.com/boxing.htm |archivedate=December 25, 2002 }}</ref>

A boxer in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, DeNucci compiled a record of 54 wins (with 27 knockouts), 15 losses, and 4 draws. He lost two middleweight fights, both by split decision, to [[Emile Griffith]]. DeNucci holds the record for the most fights, 23, in the [[Boston Garden]].<ref>[http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/11410 Box Rec-Joe DeNucci]</ref>

==Political career==
DeNucci served in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] for ten years, where he was chairman of the Human Services Committee. DeNucci then served as the Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1987 to 2011.<ref name=Auditor/>  DeNucci was the longest-serving Auditor in Massachusetts history. He decided not to seek re-election in 2010.

==Personal life==
DeNucci had five children and fourteen grandchildren, and was married to Barbara DeNucci. He was a member of the [[National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame]].

DeNucci died on September 8, 2017, from complications related to [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Joe DeNucci, 78, prizefighter, state's longest-serving auditor |journal=[[Boston Globe]] |first=Bryan |last=Marquard |date=September 8, 2017}}</ref> Postmortem analysis of DeNucci's brain confirmed that he experienced [[chronic traumatic encephalopathy]] (CTE).<ref>{{cite news |journal=[[Boston Herald]] |last=Kalter |first=Lindsay |title=Boston University confirms former Massachusetts Auditor Joseph DeNucci, ex-NHL player had CTE |date=July 2, 2018 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{s-ttl|title=Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]<br>from the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 10th Middlesex district|10th]] Middlesex district|years=1979–1986}}
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