'Dapper' O'Neil, champion of personal politics, dies at 87

[Eugene]

Source: Boston Globe

'Dapper' O'Neil, champion of personal politics, dies at 87
Councilor for 28 years devoted, galvanizing

By Bryan Marquard
Globe Staff / December 20, 2007

Dapper O'Neil, whose charming presence and lacerating tongue
kept alive for decades a bygone era of Boston politics, died
yesterday. Often the top vote-getter in City Council races,
Mr. O'Neil became one of the more revered politicians in the
city's history with his attentiveness to the smallest needs
of constituents, even as his caustic statements about
minorities, women, gays, and lesbians made him one of the
most reviled.

Modeling himself on legendary Mayor James Michael Curley,
Albert L. O'Neil was one of the few remaining links to a time
when Irish Catholic men dominated Boston's political landscape.
Mr. O'Neil died in his sleep in a West Roxbury nursing home.
He was 87.

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[MaineDem]

1. What a nasty man he was

Condolences to his family, however.

[Rockholm]

2. D.I.T.T.O.