abstract:A Boston Brahmin is a member of a group of Yankee families who form Boston's traditional upper-class. Members of this class are primarily descended from the early settlers of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and characterized by their highly discreet and inconspicuous lifestyle.
He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a BostonBrahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.