William L. Saltonstall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam L. Saltonstall
American politician, Massachusetts state senator
Date of Birth: 14-May-1927
Place of Birth: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 23-Jan-2009
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About William L. Saltonstall
- William Lawrence Saltonstall (May 14, 1927 – January 23, 2009), an American politician, was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1967 to 1979.
- He was a Republican and a resident of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.
- He led an unsuccessful campaign in 1969 to represent Massachusetts's 6th congressional district in the U.S.
- House of Representatives. Born in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, he was a member of the Saltonstall family, which had strong historical roots in Massachusetts.
- His father, Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979), was a Massachusetts governor and a U.S.
- senator.
- While the Saltonstall men were known to join the U.S.
- Army, he instead enlisted the U.S.
- Navy on his eighteenth birthday.
- His first day of service was V-J Day in 1945.
- With World War II at its end, Saltonstall enrolled at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1949.
- He later graduated from Harvard Business School.After working as a security analyst for seven years, Saltonstall worked at his father's U.S.
- Senate office in Washington, D.C.
- He returned to Massachusetts in 1966 where he ran for the state Senate.
- He won, and went on to represent the Third Essex district from 1967 to 1975 and the First Essex and Middlesex district from 1975 to 1979.
- One of his top priorities was bicycle safety.
- Saltonstall ran for the U.S.
- House in a 1969 special election to succeed the deceased William H.
- Bates from the 6th Massachusetts district, but lost to Democrat Michael J.
- Harrington.Saltonstall married Jane Chandler in 1953.
- They had three children, Abigail, Claire, and William, Jr.
- Claire was struck and killed by an automobile driver in 1974 while she was riding her bicycle.
- The Claire Saltonstall Bikeway from Boston's Emerald Necklace to Provincetown is named in her memory. On a Friday evening in January 2009, after returning home from dinner with his wife, Saltonstall died "of an apparent heart attack or blood clot".
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