Drinan (Robert F.) is born in Boston.

Born in Boston on November 15, 1920, Robert Drinan grows up in Hyde Park, graduates from Hyde Park High School, Boston College, and Georgetown Law School. Ordained a priest in 1953, he studies theology in Rome and becomes a professor and then dean at Boston College Law School. The first Catholic priest elected to Congress, Drinan serves in the U.S. House of Representatives (1971-81) and then teaches law in Washington, D.C., where he dies on January 28, 2007.