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...tough act to follow because he did so much for the District from his position as speaker," says Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Ma.), who won O'Neill's vacated seat in November...
...While O'Neill felt more comfortable with the largely ethnic, blue collar constituency of Cambridge, rather than the more intellectual university crowd of Harvard, Tufts, and MIT, he rarely failed to introduce and support bills favorable to the entire district...
...O'Neill ended a half-century of public service when the 99th Congress ended in January. Born on December 9, 1912, the ambitious Townie grew up in the midst of the Depression and received his undergraduate degree in 1936 from Boston College...
...year after his graduation, O'Neill won a seat as a State representative and in 1948 became the first Democratic speaker of the Statehouse in Massachusetts history...
Once in the Capitol where he has served under seven presidents, O'Neill was taken under the wing of Speaker John McCormack from Massachusetts. Quickly learning the cloakroom style of politics favored by his mentor, O'Neill immediately began ensuring that Boston and Cambridge would win its share of public works and military contracts...