Men in Massachusetts must unite behind Billy Galvin.

This includes old men, too.

That is because Secretary of State Billy Galvin, 75, in a sea of femininity, is the last man standing at the State House, at least among statewide constitutional office holders.

He is running for reelection for the ninth time to a job he has held for 32 years, standing tall even as men on Beacon Hill are being wiped out.

Women hold all the other statewide offices at the State House in the Motherland of Massachusetts. They are Gov. Maura Healey, Lt.Gov. Kim Driscoll, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, and state auditor Diana DiZoglio.

This does not include Boston Mayor Michelle Wu or unelected public officials like U.S. Attorney Leah Foley or Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Chief Justice Kimberly Budd, or Senate President Karen Spilka, among others.

Not only that, but Billy is the oldest secretary of state in Massachusetts history, or in the country, for that matter.

He also works in the oldest building (State House) that overlooks the oldest park (Boston Common) in the United States.

Now that is old.

And I can say that because I am the oldest political reporter in the oldest building (State House) overlooking the oldest park (Boston Common) in the country.

That is also old.

Nevertheless, Billy and I are sticking around.

The difference is, though, that Billy needs the votes of hundreds of thousands of people to keep his job. I only need one, the editor.

Billy Galvin’s political career is a book he will never write.

Born and reared in Brighton as a Democrat, Billy began his political apprenticeship as a gopher in the early seventies to the late and legendary political rogue Patrick J. “Sonny” McDonough of Dorchester.

McDonough was a member of the Governor’s Council who ran the institution like he owned it. Some said he did own it.

Galvin, who attended Suffolk Law School at the time, ran and won an open seat to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1975 where he built a reputation of successfully working the press to his advantage. His critics called him the “Prince of Darkness.”

In 1990 he ran for state treasurer following the retirement of longtime treasurer Robert Crane. Although Galvin won the Democratic primary, he was defeated in the election by Republican Joe Malone.

Four years later, in 1994, Billy was elected secretary of state and never looked back. He has won every election since then.

While never having run for governor, although he talked about it, he has served under seven of them. Then there was also speculation that he would one time run for mayor of Boston, but those dreams never panned out.

Over the years in office, Billy, a solid, working-class Democrat, has skillfully survived by adjusting as his party has gone leftist and bonkers.  He is now “taking on” President Trump over voting rights.

Any day now, however, Democrat crazies are likely to go after him for not supporting the abolition of ICE even though it has nothing to do with his office.

Billy’s problem is that while he never left the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left him when it became radicalized and fought for men in women’s sports, for instance.

Despite his election successes in primaries and elections, Billy has been unable to win the Democratic Party convention endorsement. That is because the convention is made up of loony, leftist Democrat delegates who believe DEI is written in the Constitution.

Four years ago, the party endorsed Massachusetts NAACP President Tonisha Sullivan over Billy, who later went on to beat her in the primary and win the election.

Eight years ago, the party convention delegates endorsed Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim over Billy, so Billy had to face Zakim in the primary. He beat Zakim even though Zakim had a bridge named after his father.

Yes, Billy is a man and he is old, an oldie but goody. And he is attacking Trump.

It just might be a winning combination.

Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com

Under the dome. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)