Leverett Saltonstall
Politician and United States Army officer 1892-1979 · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 86
Leverett Atholville Saltonstall was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the 55th governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States senator (1945-1967).
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A portrait of Saltonstall's mother Eleanor c. 1890 by John Singer Sargent, titled Miss Eleanor Brooks (Mrs. Richard Middlecott Saltonstall).
Saltonstall as governor.
Saltonstall with Boston Mayor John F. Collins (1960-1968). In 1966, Collins ran to succeed Saltonstall when he retired but lost in the Democratic primary to former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody (who in turn lost to Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke).Awards
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Saltonstall was internationalist in foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy, serving as a well-liked mediating force in the Republican Party. He was the only member of the Republican Senate leadership to vote for the censure of Joseph McCarthy.
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