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About Leverett Saltonstall
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). 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.
Everything about Leverett Saltonstall →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer
- Position held
- member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Governor of Massachusetts, Republican Conference Chairman of the United States Senate, list of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 1, 1892
- Died
- June 17, 1979