Martin Lomasney

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Martin Lomasney (1859-1933) was a Massachusetts politician. He served as State Senator, State Representative, and Alderman. He was best remembered, however, for being the ward boss (political boss) of Boston's Ward Eight. A cocktail, the Ward 8, was concocted at Locke-Ober in 1898 to honor Lomasney's political ward which supposedly tipped his election to the Massachusetts General Court.

Lomasney created a famous saying on the importance of discretion: ""Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink." Eliot Spitzer recently added the warning, "never put it in e-mail."