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Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892 – June 17, 1979) 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).
Sen. Saltonstall was first elected to the Senate in 1944 to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, who had resigned to join the Armed Forces of World War II. He won by a majority of 561,000 votes, the largest margin ever given a candidate for statewide office. He was reelected in 1948, 1954 and 1960.
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Leverett Saltonstall (June 13, 1783 – May 8, 1845), was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who also served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, President of the Massachusetts Senate, the first Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts and a Member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College.
Arguably the most devoted public servant of the clan, however, was Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, who died in 1979 after holding an impressive list of Massachusetts posts ranging from Speaker of ...
Jun 18, 1979 · By Richard Pearson. June 17, 1979 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. Former Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass), the reserved the genteel patrician who represented his state in the Senate for 22 years before...
Jun 18, 1979 · DOVER, Mass., June 17 (AP) — Leverett Saltonstall, who served 22 years in the United States Senate and occupied a seat of power in Massachusetts politics for more than four decades, died...
From Oliver Cromwell’s military instructions to Saltonstall ancestor John Leverett in 1653, to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall’s diary, letters, and photographs that bear witness to the first atomic bomb testing in the Bikini Atoll in 1946, the items presented here represent a cross-section of five centuries of family history and dedication to ...
