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1955–1956 Massachusetts legislature

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The 159th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1955 and 1956 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Michael F. Skerry served as speaker of the House.[4]

159th
Massachusetts General Court
←158th 160th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 5, 1955 (1955-01-05) – October 6, 1956 (1956-10-06) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentRichard I. Furbush
Party controlRepublican[2]
House
Members240
SpeakerMichael F. Skerry
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Richard I. Furbush
Richard Furbush, Senate president.
Michael F. Skerry
Michael Skerry, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1955-1956.

The Massachusetts Legislative Research Bureau began operating in 1955.[5]

Senators

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portrait name [4] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
 John Adams May 30, 1915 4th Essex
 
 John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916
 
 Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
 
 Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
 
 Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
 
 Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
 
 James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
 
 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
 Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924
 
 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
 George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
 
 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
 
 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
 
 Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
 
 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
 
 C. Henry Glovsky March 26, 1918
 
 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
 Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
 
 James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927
 
 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
 
 Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
 
 Hastings Keith November 22, 1915
 
 Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
 
 Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901
 
 Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
 
 Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
 
 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
 
 Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906
 
 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
 
 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
 
 John E. Powers November 10, 1910
 
 Albert S. Previte Jr. September 26, 1928
 
 Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926
 
 Daniel Rudsten
 
 Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
 
 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
 
 Mario Umana May 5, 1914
 
 Patrick John F. Walsh Jr. July 2, 1915

Representatives

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portrait name [4] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
 Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 
 Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897
 
 Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
 
 Ernest W. April January 15, 1915
 
 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
 Charles J. Artesani
 
 John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
 
 John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
 
 Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
 
 Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
 
 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
 
 James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
 
 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
 Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910
 
 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
 
 Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
 
 Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900
 
 Belden Bly September 29, 1914
 
 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
 
 Samuel Joseph Boudreau
 
 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
 
 Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894
 
 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
 
 Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917
 
 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
 Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
 
 John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
 John Brox November 16, 1910
 
 John Patrick Buckley 1906
 
 William Francis Burke February 12, 1925
 
 Pasquale Caggiano August 31, 1909
 
 Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
 
 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
 
 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
 
 Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
 
 Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
 
 Richard Caples December 23, 1921
 
 Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920
 
 Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
 
 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920
 
 John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921
 
 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
 Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
 
 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
 
 Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
 
 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
 
 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
 
 Harry Coltun
 
 George Raymand Como July 3, 1912
 
 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
 Joseph T. Conley
 
 William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
 
 John W. Costello April 20, 1927
 
 Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
 William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
 
 Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908
 
 John Francis Cremens
 
 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
 John A. Davis May 9, 1912
 
 John Davoren July 27, 1915
 
 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
 
 Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910
 
 Wilfred Adolphus Derosier March 2, 1908
 
 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
 
 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
 James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
 
 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
 Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879
 
 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925
 
 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
 
 Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
 
 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
 
 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
 
 Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
 
 C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916
 
 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
 Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921
 
 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
 
 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
 
 Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
 
 Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
 
 Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915
 
 Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
 
 Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904
 
 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
 
 Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
 
 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
 
 Thomas J. Hannon December 9, 1900
 
 Francis Appleton Harding 1908
 
 Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
 
 William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
 Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
 
 Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928
 
 George W. Hill September 15, 1888
 
 Paul L. Hinckley August 16, 1910
 
 Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
 
 Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892
 
 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
 
 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
 
 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
 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
 
 Abraham Herbert Kahalas
 
 Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920
 
 William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
 
 Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912
 
 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919
 
 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896
 
 Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909
 
 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
 
 William James Kingston October 17, 1909
 
 William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897
 
 Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
 
 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
 
 Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
 
 John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
 
 James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
 
 Carter Lee July 3, 1907
 
 Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
 
 Thomas Francis Linehan November 23, 1905
 
 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
 William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
 Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
 
 Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
 
 Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
 
 Rico Matera June 21, 1917
 
 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
 
 Hugh J. McLaughlin September 27, 1915
 
 John P. McMorrow September 19, 1926
 
 Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906
 
 Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
 
 William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
 
 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
 John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
 
 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
 
 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
 
 Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922
 
 William F. Nourse September 12, 1922
 
 James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
 
 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
 
 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
 
 Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925
 
 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
 
 James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922
 
 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910
 
 Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914
 
 John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916
 
 Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921
 
 Frank B. Oliveira
 
 Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
 
 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
 
 Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917
 
 Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
 
 Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913
 
 George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
 Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
 
 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
 
 Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912
 
 William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
 
 Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896
 
 Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893
 
 Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
 
 Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914
 
 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
 
 John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910
 
 John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909
 
 Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
 
 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
 J. Roger Sisson August 14, 1921
 
 Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
 
 Thomas J. Slack February 10, 1914
 
 Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
 
 George T. Smith March 18, 1888
 
 Leo Sontag August 16, 1922
 
 Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924
 
 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
 
 Franklin Sturgis Jr. October 18, 1883
 
 William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924
 
 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
 
 Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
 
 Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924
 
 Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914
 
 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
 
 Duncan Forbes Thayer February 14, 1900
 
 John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
 
 George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917
 
 Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
 
 Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
 
 Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
 
 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921
 
 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
 
 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
 
 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
 
 William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922
 
 Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914
 
 Martha Ware October 6, 1917
 
 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905
 
 Norman S. Weinberg 1919
 
 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
 
 Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883
 
 Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918
 
 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
 Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
 
 Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
 
 John Yerxa April 23, 1904
 
 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917
 
 John F. Zamparelli December 13, 1922
 
 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  2. ^ a b "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
  3. ^ "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
  4. ^ a b c 1955–1956 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1955 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Index of Special Reports Authorized by the General Court 1900-1988 (PDF) (6th ed.), Massachusetts Legislative Research Bureau, 1989, A Word About the Research Bureau
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1955" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

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  • "Big Job Ahead: Massachusetts Legislature Has Record Load of Bills", New York Times, December 12, 1954
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1955. hdl:2452/40792.
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