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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1966

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Start date
  
November 8, 1966

60.68%
  
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Winner
  
Edward Brooke

The United States Senate election of 1966 in Massachusetts was held on November 8, 1966 with Republican State Attorney General Edward Brooke defeating his challengers. Republican incumbent, Leverett Saltonstall, was retiring after serving for 22 years.

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Democratic

  • Endicott Peabody - Governor of Massachusetts from January 3, 1963 to January 7, 1965.
  • John F. Collins, Mayor of Boston since 1960.
  • Thomas Boylston Adams, academician and business executive, and scion of the Adams political family (John Adams, John Quincy Adams), running as an anti-war candidate.

    • Republican

  • Edward Brooke - Chairman of the Boston Finance Commission from 1961-1962 and Massachusetts Attorney General since 1962.

    • Socialist Workers

  • Lawrence Gilfedder - Candidate for Lt. Governor in 1948. Ran for Governor in 1952 and 1954. Ran for Senate in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, and 1970.

    • Prohibition

  • Mark R. Shaw - was the Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, and 1970. He was also the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1948 and again in 1956. In 1964 he served as Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States.

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    United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1966 Wikipedia
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