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Saltonstall ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1948, but finished last.{{fact}}
 
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Saltonstall voted for the [[Civil Rights Act]]s of [[Civil Rights Act of 1957|1957]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75 HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> 1960,<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/86-1960/s284 HR. 8601. PASSAGE OF AMENDED BILL.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|1964]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78 TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref> and the [[24th Amendment]] to the Constitution.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/87-1962/s226 S.J. RES. 29. APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION BANNING THE POLL TAX AS PREREQUISITE FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref> In the [[United States presidential election, 1964|1964 presidential election]], he initially was seen as loyal to [[Moderate Republican]] [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/30/archives/lodge-the-star-of-2-primaries-is-seen-as-the-top-challenger-to.html Lodge, the Star of 2 Primaries, Is Seen as the Top Challenger to Goldwater]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref> though ultimately supported the [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]/[[William E. Miller|Miller]] ticket after his [[Arizona]] colleague was nominated.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/26/archives/goldwater-gains-in-moderate-wing-some-middleroad-gop-congressmen.html]. ''GOLDWATER GAINS IN MODERATE WING; Some Middle‐Road G.O.P. Congressmen Now Give Him Nominal Support''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref>
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According to an analysis of his record in the 81st Congress, Saltonstall voted 71% in line with conservatives.<ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/01/06/ideology-and-civil-rights-1950-edition/ Ideology and Civil Rights, 1950 Edition]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref> Supportive of [[civil rights]], he supported cloture for [[Robert A. Taft]]'s "voluntary FEPC" legislation<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/81-1950/s369 S 1728. PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. MOTION FOR CLOTURE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref> as well as President [[Harry Truman]]s Army desegregation efforts.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/81-1950/s360 HR 6826. EXTENSION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE MANPOWER REGISTRA- TION ACT. AMEND. TO ELIMINATE A COMMITTEE AMEND. WHICH WOULD GIVE OPTION TO ENLISTEE TO SERVE IN A UNIT, THE PER- SONNEL OF WHICH ARE OF HIS OWN RACE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref> He also voted for the [[Civil Rights Act]]s of [[Civil Rights Act of 1957|1957]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75 HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> 1960,<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/86-1960/s284 HR. 8601. PASSAGE OF AMENDED BILL.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> [[Civil Rights Act of 1964|1964]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 20, 2021.</ref> the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78 TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref> and the [[24th Amendment]] to the Constitution.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/87-1962/s226 S.J. RES. 29. APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION BANNING THE POLL TAX AS PREREQUISITE FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 19, 2021.</ref>
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In the [[United States presidential election, 1964|1964 presidential election]], he initially was seen as loyal to [[Moderate Republican]] [[Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.]]<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/30/archives/lodge-the-star-of-2-primaries-is-seen-as-the-top-challenger-to.html Lodge, the Star of 2 Primaries, Is Seen as the Top Challenger to Goldwater]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref> though ultimately supported the [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]/[[William E. Miller|Miller]] ticket after his [[Arizona]] colleague was nominated.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/26/archives/goldwater-gains-in-moderate-wing-some-middleroad-gop-congressmen.html]. ''GOLDWATER GAINS IN MODERATE WING; Some Middle‐Road G.O.P. Congressmen Now Give Him Nominal Support''. Retrieved June 22, 2021.</ref>
  
 
==Personal life and family==
 
==Personal life and family==

Revision as of 16:04, June 22, 2021

Leverett A. Saltonstall
Saltonstall LOC portrait.png
Former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
From: January 4, 1945 – January 3, 1967
Predecessor Sinclair Weeks
Successor Edward Brooke
Former Governor of Massachusetts
From: January 5, 1939 – January 4, 1945
Lieutenant Horace T. Cahill
Predecessor Charles F. Hurley
Successor Maurice J. Tobin
Former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
From: January 1929 – January 1937
Predecessor John Hall
Successor Horace T. Cahill
Information
Party Republican
Spouse(s) Alice Wesselhoeft
Religion Unitarian[1][2]
Military Service
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Army
Service Years 1917−1919
Rank First Lieutenant
Unit 301st Field Artillery
Battles/wars World War I

Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892 – June 17, 1979) was a Republican from Massachusetts who served as a U.S. senator for the state from 1945 to 1967. He was previously the state's governor, and the lower legislature's Speaker prior to that.

U.S. Senate

In 1954, Saltonstall was among twenty-two Senate Republicans who voted for the censure of his Wisconsin colleague Joseph McCarthy,[3] who investigated and exposed communist infiltration of the United States Army and the Department of State.

Saltonstall ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1948, but finished last.[Citation Needed]

According to an analysis of his record in the 81st Congress, Saltonstall voted 71% in line with conservatives.[4] Supportive of civil rights, he supported cloture for Robert A. Taft's "voluntary FEPC" legislation[5] as well as President Harry Trumans Army desegregation efforts.[6] He also voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,[7] 1960,[8] 1964,[9] the Voting Rights Act of 1965,[10] and the 24th Amendment to the Constitution.[11]

In the 1964 presidential election, he initially was seen as loyal to Moderate Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.[12] though ultimately supported the Goldwater/Miller ticket after his Arizona colleague was nominated.[13]

Personal life and family

Saltonstall married the former Alice Wesselhoeft in 1916, with whom he had six children. Among them included William L. Saltonstall, a Massachusetts state senator,[14] and Leverett Saltonstall, Jr., the president of the Foundation Seed Corporation.[15]

He was the uncle of Maine newspaper editor Richard S. Saltonstall, Jr.[16] and a distant cousin of philanthropist Robert Saltonstall.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Saltonstall, Leverett (1892-1979). Harvard Square Library. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  2. ↑ Pace, Eric (June 18, 1979). Leverett Saltonstall Is Dead at 86; Revived the Massachusetts G.O.P.. The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  3. ↑ S. RES. 301. PASSAGE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  4. ↑ Ideology and Civil Rights, 1950 Edition. Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  5. ↑ S 1728. PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF RACE, COLOR, RELIGION OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. MOTION FOR CLOTURE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  6. ↑ HR 6826. EXTENSION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE MANPOWER REGISTRA- TION ACT. AMEND. TO ELIMINATE A COMMITTEE AMEND. WHICH WOULD GIVE OPTION TO ENLISTEE TO SERVE IN A UNIT, THE PER- SONNEL OF WHICH ARE OF HIS OWN RACE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  7. ↑ HR. 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  8. ↑ HR. 8601. PASSAGE OF AMENDED BILL.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  9. ↑ HR. 7152. PASSAGE.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  10. ↑ TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
  11. ↑ S.J. RES. 29. APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION BANNING THE POLL TAX AS PREREQUISITE FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
  12. ↑ Lodge, the Star of 2 Primaries, Is Seen as the Top Challenger to Goldwater. The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  13. ↑ [1]. GOLDWATER GAINS IN MODERATE WING; Some Middle‐Road G.O.P. Congressmen Now Give Him Nominal Support. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  14. ↑ Collette, Matt (January 25, 2009). William L. Saltonstall, at 81, former Massachusetts state senator. boston.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  15. ↑ Leverett Saltonstall Jr.,48,Dies; Senator's Son Led Seed Concern. The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  16. ↑ R.S. SALTONSTALL JR. DIES; MAINE NEWSPAPER EDITOR. The New York Times. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  17. ↑ Marquard, Brian (March 28, 2008). Robert Saltonstall, 97; pursued teaching, travel, philanthropy. boston.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.

External links

  • Profile at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  • Profile at National Governors Association
  • Profile at the Massachusetts Legislature
  • Profile at Find a Grave
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