1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature

The 157th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1951 and 1952 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Tip O'Neill served as speaker of the House.[4]

157th
Massachusetts General Court
156th 158th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1950
Senate
Members40
PresidentRichard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerTip O'Neill (3rd Middlesex)
Party controlDemocrat[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1951 (1951-01-03) – November 17, 1951 (1951-11-17)
2ndJanuary 2, 1952 (1952-01-02) – July 5, 1952 (1952-07-05)
+ 6-day extra session[3]
Richard Furbush
Richard Furbush, Senate president.
Tip O'Neill
Tip O'Neill, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1951.

Senators

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Paul Achin 1st Middlesex
 
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
 
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
 
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
 
John W. Coddaire Jr.
 
John F. Collins[7] July 20, 1919
 
Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
 
James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
 
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
 
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
 
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
 
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
 
Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
 
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
 
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
 
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
 
William Joseph Keenan
 
Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901
 
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
 
Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908
 
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880
 
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
 
Daniel Francis O'Brien
 
Francis J. O'Neil
 
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
 
Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895
 
Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920
 
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
 
Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926
 
George W. Stanton
 
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
 
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
 
Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899
 
William Emmet White June 1, 1900
 
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 
Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
 
Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
Charles J. Artesani
 
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
 
Joseph A. Aspero
 
Francis Richard Atkinson
 
John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
 
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
 
Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895
 
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
 
Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
 
Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
 
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
 
James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
 
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916
 
G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906
 
Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
 
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
 
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
 
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
 
Samuel Joseph Boudreau
 
Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901
 
Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900
 
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
 
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
 
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
 
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
 
John Brox November 16, 1910
 
Walter D. Bryan
 
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910
 
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
 
Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
 
Eldridge Earl Campbell
 
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
 
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
William F. Carr August 4, 1910
 
Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
 
Francis X. Casey
 
Michael Catino February 21, 1904
 
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
Philip Aloysius Chapman
 
Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
 
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
 
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
 
Harry Coltun
 
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
Joseph T. Conley
 
William P. Constantino August 19, 1911
 
John W. Costello April 20, 1927
 
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
 
Vincent Francis Cronin
 
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
 
John G. Curley
 
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
John A. Davis May 9, 1912
 
George Walter Dean
 
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
 
Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921
 
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
 
Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
 
William P. Di Vitto
 
Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919
 
James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
 
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879
 
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
 
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
 
Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
 
John Joseph Dwyer
 
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
 
C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916
 
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
 
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
 
Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889
 
Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
 
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
 
Francis Thomas Gallagher
 
John L. Gallant
 
Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915
 
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
 
Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
 
Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
 
William A. Glynn
 
Francis John Good
 
Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
 
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
 
Joseph Patrick Graham August 22, 1902
 
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
 
George Greene March 7, 1897
 
Frederick Clement Hailer Jr.
 
James Edward Hannon
 
Francis Appleton Harding 1908
 
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
 
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
Christian A. Herter Jr. January 29, 1919
 
Albert Fairbanks Higgins
 
James Alan Hodder
 
Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
 
Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892
 
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
 
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
 
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
 
Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917
 
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893
 
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
 
Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913
 
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
 
Herbert L. Jackson
 
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
 
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
 
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
 
Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
 
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
 
Francis Xavier Joyce
 
Abraham Herbert Kahalas
 
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
 
Henry E. Keenan
 
William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
 
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
 
Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912
 
Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909
 
Thomas E. Key
 
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
 
William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897
 
Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
 
Bernard M. Lally
 
Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
 
Joseph F. Leahy
 
Carter Lee July 3, 1907
 
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
 
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
Raymond Joseph Lord
C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913
 
John Pierce Lynch April 19, 1924
 
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
 
Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
 
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
 
Frank D. McCarthy
 
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
 
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
 
Timothy J. McInerney 10th Suffolk
 
Francis H. McNamara
 
Augustus Gardner Means June 8, 1925
 
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
 
Sherman Miles December 5, 1882
 
Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908
 
Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906
 
William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
 
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
 
John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
 
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
 
Louis K. Nathanson
 
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
 
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
 
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 10th Suffolk
 
John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
 
James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922
 
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
 
John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916
 
Frank B. Oliveira
 
Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
 
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
 
Anthony Parenzo
 
Eben Parsons
 
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
 
Antone Perreira
 
Michael P. Pessolano
Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909
 
Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
 
George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
 
Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
 
Harold Putnam (Massachusetts politician) February 15, 1916
 
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
 
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
 
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
 
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
 
Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899
 
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
 
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
 
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
 
Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896
 
Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887
 
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
 
Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
 
Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
 
Edwin Andrews Seibel
 
John M. Shea December 8, 1902
 
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
 
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
 
Charles J. Skladzien
 
Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
 
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
 
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
 
Thomas H. Spurr Jr.
 
Walter J. Sullivan March 2, 1923
 
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
 
William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905
 
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
 
Walter Frank Szetela
 
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
 
Clarence F. Telford
 
Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
 
Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
Philip Anthony Tracy 10th Suffolk
 
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
 
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
 
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
 
Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
 
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
 
Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914
 
Martha Ware October 6, 1917
 
Malcolm Stuart White
 
Richard James White Jr. April 14, 1890
 
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905
 
Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
David B. Williams (politician) January 7, 1919
 
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
 
Albert E. Wood
 
Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
 
Arthur Eaton Young

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  2. ^ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  3. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  4. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. ^ a b 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1951" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

Further reading

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  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1950), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1951, hdl:2452/43442
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1951. hdl:2452/40790.
  • John Harris (December 28, 1951), "Legislators Back on Job Wadnesday After Recess", Daily Boston Globe
  • Samuel B. Cutler (1952), "Legislature Reconvenes Tomorrow in Bay State", Daily Boston Globe
  • "Be It Resolved...", Daily Boston Globe, 1952
  • "Legislators to Hear Dever Message Today", Daily Boston Globe, January 2, 1952
  • Duncan MacRae (1952). "The Relation Between Roll Call Votes and Constituencies in the Massachusetts House of Representatives". American Political Science Review. 46. doi:10.2307/1952111.
  • Joseph F. Zimmerman (1962). "Executive Veto in Massachusetts, 1947-1960". Social Science. 37. JSTOR 41884988.
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