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Eight years in office, then Bain Capital

Mr. Patrick spent part of his first term as a surrogate for his friend and then-Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. After a tough re-election fight in 2010, Mr. Patrick won a second term, defeating Charlie Baker, a Republican, but did not seek a third term in 2014.

While his time in office was mostly free of major controversy, one notable exception involved a case in which Mr. Patrick was accused of interfering when state officials tried to list his brother-in-law, Bernard Sigh, as a sex offender in Massachusetts. A hearing officer ruled that Mr. Sigh did not need to register.

Mr. Sigh had been convicted of the spousal rape of Mr. Patrick’s sister, Rhonda, in California in 1993. After the two reconciled and moved to Massachusetts, Mr. Sigh this year was again convicted of raping Mr. Patrick’s sister — and sentenced to six to eight years in prison.

After leaving office, Mr. Patrick joined the private equity firm Bain Capital that Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, helped found, as a partner to focus on socially oriented investments.

In late 2018, Mr. Patrick announced that he would not enter the presidential race in 2020, citing the “cruelty of our elections process.”

His wife, Diane Patrick, a labor attorney, had been hospitalized with depression early in his first term as governor under the weight of negative media articles. In announcing his initial decision not to run, Mr. Patrick also disclosed that his wife had been recently diagnosed with stage 1 uterine cancer and had undergone surgery, adding that her prognosis was excellent.