1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature

The 153rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1943 and 1944.[1]

153rd
Massachusetts General Court
152nd 154th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
Senate
Members40
House
Members240

Senators

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Portrait Name [1] Date of Birth [2] District [2]
 
Benjamin J. Bowen January 19, 1876
 
Richard S. Bowers June 18, 1900
 
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 1st Hampden
 
William R. Conley September 1, 1900
 
Arthur W. Coolidge October 13, 1881
 
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
 
Joseph F. Francis July 2, 1893
 
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
 
Eugene H. Giroux January 20, 1903
 
Maurice M. Goldman
 
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
 
James A. Gunn June 7, 1883
 
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875
 
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
 
J. Frank Hughes
 
Jarvis Hunt (politician) March 28, 1904
 
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
 
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872
 
Robert L. Lee
 
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
 
Donald Alexander MacDonald February 21, 1893
 
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872
 
James P. McAndrews
 
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
 
Joseph F. Montminy
 
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907
 
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888
 
William E. Nolen
 
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
 
James Austin Peckham
 
Benjamin B. Priest
 
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887
 
Edward Rowe March 17, 1902
 
George W. Stanton
 
Everett W. Stone
 
Charles F. Sullivan October 10, 1904
 
Leo J. Sullivan December 8, 1905
 
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives

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Portrait Name [1] Date of Birth [2] District [2]
 
Wilfred J. Achin May 12, 1891 3rd Berkshire
 
Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
 
Theodore Andrews August 23, 1893
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
Charles J. Artesani
 
Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899
 
William F. Askin May 6, 1896
 
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
 
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
 
Willis L. Baker June 25, 1875
 
Charles Homer Barrett June 23, 1868
 
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
 
William R. Barry February 2, 1905
 
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
 
Walter Ray Baylies April 28, 1902
 
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
 
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
 
Albert F. Bigelow October 4, 1880 10th Norfolk
 
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
 
Stanley John Borsa
 
Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901
 
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
 
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
 
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
 
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
Russell P. Brown August 24, 1891
 
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
 
Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883
 
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
 
Edward Butterworth August 14, 1908
 
Bartholomew John Callery Jr. March 28, 1910
 
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
 
Charles J. Campbell September 28, 1877
 
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
 
Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875
 
Edmund Euplio Capodilupo July 7, 1913
 
Enrico Cappucci 1910
 
Ernest Westervelt Carman
 
John Henry Carroll
 
Daniel Casey May 7, 1890
 
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
 
James Frederick Catusi
 
Frank H. Chambers June 14, 1898
 
Perlie Dyar Chase July 31, 1905
 
David M. Cleary May 9, 1901
 
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
 
Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916
 
Michael John Conway
 
Florence E. Cook July 8, 1908
 
Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878
 
George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905
 
Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894
 
Nelson B. Crosby June 20, 1871
 
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911
 
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
 
Clifford Rudolph Cusson January 6, 1895
 
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
Lawrence Harvard Davis
 
John Joseph Deedy September 22, 1914
 
Roger Dennett September 14, 1895
 
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
 
Octave O. Desmarais October 26, 1889
 
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
 
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
 
Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890
 
Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896
 
Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888
 
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
Susan Bradley Donovan October 2, 1895
 
Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904
 
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
 
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
 
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
 
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
 
Clifton Emerson Dwelly January 11, 1893
 
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
 
Charles Kingsbury Endicott October 4, 1892
 
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
 
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
 
Samuel Falkof
 
Catherine E. Falvey November 6, 1910
 
John J. Falvey February 22, 1904
 
John R. Fausey March 19, 1870
 
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
 
Joseph P. Ferriter March 25, 1905
 
John Edward Flaherty December 31, 1910
 
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
 
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
 
John F. Foster
 
Douglass Brooks Francis
 
George Fuller July 24, 1893
 
Dana Taylor Gallup April 14, 1885
 
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
 
Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899
 
John F. Gilmore December 8, 1896
 
Dennis P. Glynn September 29, 1906
 
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
 
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
 
George Greene March 7, 1897
 
Edward J. Grimley December 15, 1915
 
Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903
 
Edward Childs Hall May 12, 1870
 
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
 
Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.
 
Charles Howard Haskell July 26, 1878
 
Lawrence Alanson Haworth May 23, 1871
 
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
Henry Davis Higgins February 24, 1873
 
Ralph H. Hill February 5, 1915
 
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
 
Frank Hathaway Horton July 15, 1874
 
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
 
I. Grafton Howes June 17, 1889
 
Orison Valentine Hull November 9, 1873
 
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
 
Edward A. Hutchinson Jr. December 13, 1911
 
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
 
William McEwen Hyde January 27, 1910
 
Harvey Iris
 
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
 
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
 
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
 
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
 
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
 
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
 
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
 
Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905
 
Rudolph King November 2, 1887
 
Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901
 
John Quincy Knowles May 21, 1895
 
David Benjamin Lane Jr. September 6, 1906
 
George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909
 
Laurence W. Law
 
Walter E. Lawrence December 8, 1905
 
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
 
Louis Lobel August 10, 1911
 
Burton Elmer Loring
 
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
 
Edward Lysek October 18, 1911
 
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
 
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912
 
Joseph Margolis September 28, 1908
 
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
 
Thomas B. Matthews June 24, 1874
 
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880
 
Charles Joseph McCaffrey January 16, 1898
 
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
 
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
 
Paul J. McCarty July 22, 1906
 
Elmer L. McCulloch
 
William P. McDermott July 4, 1870
 
Patrick J. McDonough April 29, 1911
 
Harold B. L. McIntosh November 19, 1907
 
Philip McMorrow
 
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
 
Charles Miller January 12, 1908
 
Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908
 
Walter James Moran December 22, 1903
 
Timothy J. Moriarty August 6, 1909
 
Lester Bertram Morley April 19, 1903
 
Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907
 
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
 
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
Michael J. Neville October 19, 1899
 
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
 
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
 
Roderick L. O'Handly
 
Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895
 
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
 
George Joseph O'Shea November 16, 1899
 
John Thomas Padden May 6, 1903
 
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
 
Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878
 
Loomis Patrick May 4, 1907
 
Oscar Houston Perkins January 3, 1879
 
Herman Peter Peterson November 21, 1890
 
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
 
Sam G. Pillsbury March 7, 1873
 
George Perry Ponte May 24, 1905
 
George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
 
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
 
William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895
 
Stuart Craig Rand June 9, 1888
 
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
 
Cornelius Edward Reddy May 27, 1910
 
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
 
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
 
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
 
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
 
Gerald F. Scally July 17, 1905
 
Alyce Louise Schlapp November 30, 1912
 
William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875
 
A. John Serino March 13, 1906
 
William J. Sessions December 18, 1859
 
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
 
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
 
Charles E. Shepard September 21, 1901
 
Carl A. Sheridan March 24, 1908
 
Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881
 
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
 
Charles J. Skladzien
 
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
 
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
 
Margaret Spear August 10, 1882
 
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
 
Avery W. Steele August 1, 1907
 
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
 
Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904
 
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
 
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
 
William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905
 
Eugene Joseph Sweeney May 11, 1886
 
Joseph James Sweeney January 5, 1893
 
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
 
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
 
John H. Taylor 1873
 
Robert Leroy Taylor November 22, 1907
 
Clarence F. Telford
 
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
 
James Francis Tobin May 8, 1903
 
Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
John E. Troy Jr.
 
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
 
John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878
 
Arthur F. Verney
 
James T. Violette
 
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
George Thomas Walsh February 20, 1904
 
Norman F. Wellen
 
Joseph L. Whiton
 
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
 
Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910
 
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
 
Clarence A. Wood
 
Arthur Eaton Young
 
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1943.
  2. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1943" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1943-1944, hdl:2452/219467
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1943, hdl:2452/58055
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1944, hdl:2452/40891