unspectacular but effective legislator, good at drafting legislation and finding compromise language. When he left office, after more than thirty years in politics, he had few political enemies. Saltonstall voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Death and legacy Saltonstall opted not to run for reelection in 1966, in part to provide an opportunity for his seat to Edward Brooke, a rising star in Massachusetts Republican circles. He retired to his farm in Dover, where he spent his remaining years as a gentleman farmer. Leverett Saltonstall died of congestive heart failure in 1979 aged 86, and is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. The Saltonstall Building in downtown Boston is named for him. See also Massachusetts legislature: 1923–1924, 1925–1926, 1927–1928, 1929-1930, 1931–1932, 1933–1934, 1935–1936 Massachusetts House of Representatives' 5th Middlesex district List of members of the American Legion References Sources External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1892 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Army personnel of World War I American Unitarian Universalists American Unitarians County district attorneys in Massachusetts Republican Party governors of Massachusetts Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey players Harvard Law School alumni Massachusetts lawyers Military personnel from Massachusetts People from Dover, Massachusetts Politicians from Newton, Massachusetts Republican Party United States senators from Massachusetts Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives United States Army officers Candidates in the 1948 United States presidential election Noble and Greenough School alumni Burials at Harmony Grove Cemetery 20th-century American lawyers