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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLeverett SALTONSTALL
(1892-1979)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1967Party: RepublicanSALTONSTALL, Leverett,
(great-grandson of Leverett Saltonstall [1783-1845]), a Senator
from Massachusetts; born in Chestnut Hill, Middlesex County, Mass.,
September 1, 1892; attended the public schools and Noble and
Greenough School, Dedham, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University
in 1914 and from its law school in 1917; during the First World War
served in the United States Army as a first lieutenant 1917-1919;
admitted to the bar in 1919, and commenced practice in Boston,
Mass.; member of the board of aldermen of Newton, Mass., 1920-1922;
assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, Mass., 1921-1922;
member, State house of representatives 1923-1936, serving as
speaker 1929-1936; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor
of Massachusetts in 1936; Governor of Massachusetts 1939-1945;
chairman of the National Governors Conference 1943-1944; elected as
a Republican to the United States Senate, November 7, 1944, to fill
the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1949, caused by the
resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., but did not assume office
until January 4, 1945, after completion of his term as Governor;
reelected in 1948, 1954 and 1960 and served from January 4, 1945,
to January 3, 1967; was not a candidate for reelection in 1966;
Republican whip 1949-1957; chairman, Committee on Armed Services
(Eighty-third Congress), Republican Conference (Eighty-fifth
through Eighty-ninth Congress); trustee and director of several
mutual investment funds and charities; resided in Dover, Mass.,
where he died June 17, 1979; interment in Harmony Grove Cemetery,
Salem, Mass.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Saltonstall, Leverett.
Salty: Recollections of a Yankee in Politics. Boston: Boston
Globe, 1976; U.S. Congress. Tributes to the Honorable Leverett
Saltonstall. 89th Cong., 2d sess., 1966. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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