@prefix foaf: . foaf:primaryTopic . @prefix owl: . owl:sameAs . @prefix rdf: . @prefix yago: . rdf:type yago:SuFFolkUniversityLawSchoolAlumni , yago:AmericanPoliticiansOfIrishDescent , yago:Person100007846 , yago:MassachusettsCityCouncillors , , foaf:Person ; owl:sameAs , . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "Albert L. O'Neil"@en ; rdfs:comment "Albert Leo \"Dapper\" O'Neil (April 12, 1920 \u2013 December 19, 2007) was an American politician who served as a socially conservative member of the Boston City Council for 28 years. He served on the Boston Licensing Board and was an operative for Boston Mayor James Michael Curley. He graduated from Roxbury Memorial High School and attended Suffolk University Law School, but left before graduating to serve in the United States Army during World War II."@en ; foaf:givenName "Albert L."@en ; foaf:name "Albert L. Oneil"@en . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix category: . dcterms:subject category:Article_Feedback_5 , category:American_military_personnel_of_World_War_II , category:Suffolk_University_Law_School_alumni , category:Massachusetts_city_council_members , , , , category:American_people_of_Irish_descent . @prefix ns7: . ns7:wasDerivedFrom ; foaf:surname "Oneil"@en ; foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dbpedia-owl: . dbpedia-owl:birthDate "1920-04-12"^^xsd:date . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpprop:dateOfBirth "1920-04-12"^^xsd:date ; dbpprop:name "Oneil, Albert L."@en . @prefix ns11: . dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate ns11:Persondata ; dbpprop:dateOfDeath "2007-12-19"^^xsd:date ; dbpedia-owl:abstract "Albert Leo \"Dapper\" O'Neil (April 12, 1920 \u2013 December 19, 2007) was an American politician who served as a socially conservative member of the Boston City Council for 28 years. He served on the Boston Licensing Board and was an operative for Boston Mayor James Michael Curley. He graduated from Roxbury Memorial High School and attended Suffolk University Law School, but left before graduating to serve in the United States Army during World War II. After the war he graduated from the Staley School of the Spoken Word with a degree in oratory. He worked with a railroad company and then got a job with the state housing board. From 1948 to 1961, O'Neil ran for office five times, three times for state representative and one apiece for City Council and School Committee. He lost all five races. O'Neil worked as a chauffeur for Massachusetts Gubernatorial candidate Endicott Peabody. After Peabody was elected Governor of Massachusetts, he appointed O'Neil as his patronage secretary. O'Neil's tenure in that role was short-lived. According to some reports, O'Neil was contacted by an aide to Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy and asked to provide a Kennedy supporter with a state job. O'Neil, not a fan of Kennedy's liberal policies allegedly told the staffer to \"go to hell. \" Kennedy's office demanded O'Neil's termination which was granted almost immediately by Peabody. In 1963, Peabody appointed him to the Boston Licensing Board. In 1967 O'Neil ran for Mayor of Boston, finishing in eighth place with 0.95% of the vote. In 1971 he was appointed to the Boston City Council after the resignation of Louise Day Hicks, who had been elected to the United States House of Representatives. In 1992 he was elected Council President after the death of Christopher A. Iannella. In a story published in The Boston Globe on November 11, 1999, when he lost his City Council election bid to Michael F. Flaherty, Boston historian Thomas H. O'Connor said, \"This is the last hurrah not merely for a man but for the politicking he represents. \" O'Connor went on to say that O'Neil's career endured \"largely through the kinds of loyalties he built up over 30 years, from people for whom he'd done favors, and they'd never forget him, and they'd talk about him to their relatives. He built a political career on a system of local patronage. \" O'Neil had a long history in supporting the right to keep and bear arms; he was famous for carrying a loaded firearm with him at all times. He openly called supporters of integration \"suburban liberals\" and suggested that they were \"Communist dupes. \" He was fond of quoting the alleged saying of Nikita Khrushchev \"We will bury you from within;\" reflecting his belief that integration and desegregaton were a \"Communist plot against Boston. O'Neil was also a outspoken supporter of the white minority governments of South Africa and Rhodesia. At least in part because of his explicit rejection of raced-based grievance and identity politics, he was much admired and praised by Boston columnist and radio talk show host Howie Carr."@en ; dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection ; dbpedia-owl:deathDate "2007-12-19"^^xsd:date . dbpedia-owl:wikiPageRedirects . dbpedia-owl:wikiPageRedirects .