title: Michael D. Bissonnette
text: Michael D. Bissonnette is the former mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts. Bissonnette was first elected mayor in a landslide in the November 2005 election after he defeated embattled mayor Richard Goyette, who has been arrested weeks prior on federal extortion charges. Bissonnette served as mayor from 2006 through 2013, but was unseated by Richard J. Kos, who had  previously served as mayor, in the 2013 general election. 
  
  After leaving the mayor's office, he served as interim DPW director for the Town of Greenfield from November 2014 until May 2015. He challenged Kos to a rematch in 2015 but was unsuccessful. He returned to his law practice shortly thereafter. In 2019 Kos announced he would not seek re-election and Bissonnette was one of several candidates to run for the seat. He was eliminated in the City's preliminary election in September of 2019.
  
  Bissonnette lives in Chicopee with his wife Erin.
  
  Chicopee is a city in Western Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, a total population is 54,653.
  
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  Year of birth missing (living people)
  Living people
  Mayors of Chicopee, Massachusetts
  Westfield State University alumni