Hollywood-handsome Daniel B.
Gradually, he reclaimed his dignity, helped other recovering alcoholics, joined hospital boards, and quietly found equilibrium and happiness in a life filled with enormous highs and lows..
He became a doting father to their three children.
He survived his six-year legal ordeal, quit drinking, and married Judy Aarsand, whom he had met in rehab.
But Dan Brewster had a third act.
It was rock bottom.
After fleeing to Ireland, Brewster was hospitalized for alcoholism, only to learn that a once loyal aide had accused him of accepting bribes.
Mathias, Jr., a lifelong friend.
Not long after their marriage, however, Brewster\'s drinking and other political missteps led to his 1968 election loss to Republican Charles McC.
But Brewster\'s long marriage to Carol de Havenon collapsed after he reunited with Anne Bullitt, the ambassador\'s daughter who had jilted him 24 years before.
He became friends with Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer both got their start in Brewster\'s Senate office.
He won his first 12 elections, almost always as the leading vote-getter.
He earned his law degree and quickly rose in politics: state legislature, Congress, and the Senate.
He returned from war bursting with ambition.
He was later decorated for valor.
During the three-month siege, he was wounded seven times, including by one bullet that tore through his helmet.
As a 20-year-old Marine lieutenant on Okinawa, Brewster fought in some the most savage combat of World War II.
He lost it all -- a breathtaking descent into divorce, electoral defeat, a bribery scandal, financial collapse, and personal shame.
But then, debilitated by alcoholism, Brewster self-destructed.
Wallace, a victory that was credited with clearing the way for congressional passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In 1964, as a stand-in for Lyndon Johnson in Maryland\'s Democratic Presidential Primary, Brewster defeated the segregationist George C.
He was called the Golden Boy of Maryland Politics.
Brewster had it all: inherited wealth, stellar education, combat Marine, prestigious horse farm, gorgeous and talented wife, and two young sons -- even a seat in the United States Senate.
Hollywood-handsome Daniel B
