Dennis DiZoglio was elected Mayor of Methuen, Mass., in 1993 with 74 percent of the vote, and reelected in 1995 and 1997 with 84 and 80 percent of the vote, respectively. He went on to become a Deputy General Manager with the MBTA, the fifth largest transit authority in the U.S., and the Executive Director of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, an agency serving more than 335,000 people.