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Besides fighting, Saltonstalls and Brookses kept their rank up by good investments and better marriages, marriages which linked them with impeccable Yankee names: Boylston, Everett, Lawrence, Lee, Leverett. Lev Saltonstall can count eight governors of Massachusetts among his forbears. One of them was long-nosed Governor James Sullivan, a political asset which qualified Saltonstall for membership in the Charitable Irish Society two years ago. A Brooks married Charles Francis Adams, Civil War ambassador to Britain. This tied the Saltonstalls to the mighty Adams family, including Presidents John and John Quincy, and Historians Henry and Brooks. Great-Great-Grandfather Peter Chardon...
...Republican Lev Saltonstall made his way in a day when the red hat of Boston's Catholic Cardinal O'Connell has had vastly more political power in Massachusetts than the crimson tie of Harvard. Yankees may control the Massachusetts purse strings, but Irish Democrats control the ballot boxes. The Old Stock has long since been flooded under by successive waves of immigrants who rapidly became voters; the Irish (70% of the Boston vote), the Italians, French Canadians, Poles, Russian Jews. Boston's best can and do keep the whip hand over bank directorates, and in the overstuffed...
...Lev Saltonstall broke up this defeatism...
...governorship from tempestuous Democrat James Michael Curley. Some said that the unpopular Curley beat himself, but Saltonstall was re-elected in 1940, although the Democrats that year carried the state for Franklin Roosevelt by 137,000 votes. And since his re-election to a third term in 1942, Lev Saltonstall has been governor of Massachusetts for the longest stretch in 93 years...
...Lev Saltonstall's style as governor is in keeping with the weathered plainness of his Yankee squire's face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al Larrivee-not uniformed-is careful to keep a cache of chocolates and nuts for his boss in the glove compartment...