The 160th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1957 and 1958 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. Newland H. Holmes served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.[4]
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | General Court | ||||
| Term | January 2, 1957 – October 17, 1958 [1] | ||||
| Senate | |||||
| Members | 40 [2] | ||||
| President | Newland H. Holmes | ||||
| Party control | Republican[2] | ||||
| House | |||||
| Members | 240 [3] | ||||
| Speaker | John F. Thompson | ||||
| Party control | Democrat[3] | ||||
Newland Holmes, Senate president.
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1957-1958.
Senators
edit| portrait | name [4] | date of birth [5] | district [5] |
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John Joseph Beades | June 8, 1916 | 7th Suffolk |
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Paul H. Benoit | January 5, 1916 | |
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Philip Griggs Bowker | April 17, 1899 | |
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Otto F. Burkhardt | January 17, 1902 | |
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Harold Wilson Canavan | May 13, 1915 | |
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Silvio O. Conte | November 9, 1921 | |
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James J. Corbett | November 27, 1896 | |
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Leslie Bradley Cutler | March 24, 1890 | |
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Edward DeSaulnier | January 8, 1921 | |
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Maurice A. Donahue | September 12, 1918 | |
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Charles E. Ferguson | January 30, 1894 | |
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William Daniel Fleming | April 14, 1907 | |
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Mary L. Fonseca | March 30, 1915 | |
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A. Frank Foster | February 8, 1910 | |
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Donald Linwood Gibbs | August 7, 1904 | |
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Joseph Francis Gibney | January 9, 1911 | |
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Philip A. Graham | May 21, 1910 | |
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William E. Hays | November 28, 1903 | |
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Charles W. Hedges | March 27, 1901 | |
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James W. Hennigan Jr. | March 27, 1927 | |
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Charles V. Hogan | April 12, 1897 | |
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Newland H. Holmes | August 30, 1891 | |
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Warren Sherman Keith | June 12, 1892 | |
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Harold R. Lundgren | May 22, 1894 | |
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Ralph Collins Mahar | January 4, 1912 | |
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Charles Sumner Marston 3d | June 16, 1921 | |
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Francis X. McCann | September 2, 1912 | |
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Frederick T. McDermott | November 20, 1906 | |
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Arthur Joseph Mullen | July 20, 1922 | |
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Charles William Olson | August 24, 1889 | |
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John Francis Parker | May 29, 1907 | |
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John E. Powers | November 10, 1910 | |
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Elizabeth Stanton | May 27, 1909 | |
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Edward C. Stone | June 29, 1878 | |
| Herbert Tuckerman | May 2, 1921 | ||
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Mario Umana | May 5, 1914 | |
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William X. Wall | July 1, 1904 | |
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John Yerxa | April 23, 1904 | |
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Stanley John Zarod | April 11, 1920 |
Representatives
edit| portrait | name [4] | date of birth [5] | district [5] |
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Harry Benjamin Albro | January 21, 1887 | 2nd Barnstable |
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Leonard H. Amoroso | February 14, 1897 | |
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Walter T. Anderson | January 6, 1891 | |
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Charles H. Anthony | July 6, 1893 | |
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Ernest W. April | January 15, 1915 | |
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John A. Armstrong | June 12, 1901 | |
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Charles J. Artesani | ||
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John George Asiaf | June 30, 1900 | |
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John Robert Ayers | February 18, 1911 | |
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Clifton H. Baker | November 28, 1878 | |
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Fred A. Baumeister | September 24, 1892 | |
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James C. Bayley | October 28, 1908 | |
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Raymond H. Beach | August 11, 1888 | |
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Rene R. Bernardin | July 24, 1910 | |
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Charles A. Bisbee Jr. | June 8, 1918 | |
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Vinson Blanchard | August 1, 1916 | |
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Carlton H. Bliss | August 7, 1900 | |
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Belden Bly | September 29, 1914 | |
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Frank Edwin Boot | November 8, 1905 | |
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Gordon Dickson Boynton | August 9, 1901 | |
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Malcolm Blanchard Boynton | November 13, 1894 | |
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G. Edward Bradley | October 21, 1906 | |
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Rene A. Brassard | August 5, 1917 | |
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John Cornelius Bresnahan | November 14, 1919 | |
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John D. Brown | January 30, 1900 | |
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John Brox | November 16, 1910 | |
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John Patrick Buckley | 1906 | |
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Gardner E. Campbell | November 22, 1886 | |
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John J. Campbell | August 26, 1922 | |
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Michael Herbert Cantwell | May 2, 1905 | |
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Richard Caples | December 23, 1921 | |
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Charles W. Capraro | November 2, 1920 | |
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Michael Joseph Carroll | June 21, 1891 | |
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Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. | October 5, 1920 | |
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William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) | June 27, 1905 | |
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Michael Catino | February 21, 1904 | |
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John Joseph Cavanaugh | December 16, 1921 | |
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Alexander J. Cella | March 1, 1929 | |
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Harrison Chadwick | February 25, 1903 | |
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Wendell Phillips Chamberlain | October 28, 1911 | |
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Amelio Della Chiesa | July 31, 1901 | |
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Stephen T. Chmura | August 25, 1916 | |
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Thomas Francis Coady Jr. | May 8, 1905 | |
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Anthony M. Colonna | May 2, 1916 | |
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George Raymand Como | July 3, 1912 | |
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James Francis Condon | February 4, 1899 | |
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Lloyd E. Conn | November 26, 1904 | |
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William Augustine Connell, Jr | November 17, 1922 | |
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Gilbert M. Coroa | January 13, 1925 | |
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John W. Costello | April 20, 1927 | |
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Leo Joseph Cournoyer | December 11, 1905 | |
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William A. Cowing | January 6, 1878 | |
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Russell H. Craig | February 4, 1924 | |
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Robert P. Cramer | October 22, 1916 | |
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Robert Q. Crane | March 21, 1926 | |
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James J. Craven, Jr. | March 24, 1919 | |
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Wallace Boyd Crawford | November 19, 1908 | |
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John J. Cronin | August 1, 1910 | |
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Sidney Curtiss | September 4, 1917 | |
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John A. Davis | May 9, 1912 | |
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John Davoren | July 27, 1915 | |
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James DeNormandie | November 10, 1907 | |
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Domenic Victor DePari | October 27, 1910 | |
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Wilfred Adolphus Derosier | March 2, 1908 | |
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Cornelius Desmond | October 4, 1893 | |
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Theophile Jean DesRoches | June 27, 1902 | |
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Gerard F. Doherty | April 6, 1928 | |
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Thomas J. Doherty | August 25, 1919 | |
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John F. Dolan | September 7, 1922 | |
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Richard T. Dolan | January 4, 1924 | |
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James R. Doncaster | January 28, 1919 | |
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Edmond J. Donlan | December 19, 1899 | |
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Harold Lawrence Dower | September 16, 1908 | |
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Charles Robert Doyle | September 24, 1925 | |
| John T. Driscoll | October 26, 1925 | ||
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Charles E. Luke Driscoll | October 1, 1909 | |
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Philip J. Durkin | October 21, 1903 | |
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John Marshall Eaton Jr. | March 26, 1918 | |
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Thomas Edward Enright | August 1, 1881 | |
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Manuel Faria | March 7, 1906 | |
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Thomas F. Farrell | October 10, 1897 | |
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Lawrence F. Feloney | September 11, 1921 | |
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William H. Finnegan | March 29, 1926 | |
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Vernon R. Fletcher | February 8, 1924 | |
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Jeremiah J. Foley | October 28, 1915 | |
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Stephen L. French | March 9, 1892 | |
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Peter B. Gay | July 13, 1915 | |
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Frank S. Giles | June 15, 1915 | |
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Louis Harry Glaser | June 15, 1910 | |
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Edwin Daniel Gorman | November 19, 1912 | |
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Hollis M. Gott | May 25, 1885 | |
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Thomas T. Gray | July 22, 1892 | |
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George Greene | March 7, 1897 | |
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Edward D. Harrington Jr. | August 11, 1921 | |
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Arthur Graham Heaney | July 7, 1908 | |
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Francis J. Hickey, Jr. | March 7, 1928 | |
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George W. Hill | September 15, 1888 | |
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Isaac Alexander Hodgen | March 28, 1907 | |
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Herbert B. Hollis | September 10, 1899 | |
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Charles F. Holman | June 21, 1892 | |
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J. Philip Howard | February 16, 1907 | |
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Richard Lester Hull | November 30, 1917 | |
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Walter Forbes Hurlburt | February 18, 1917 | |
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Christopher A. Iannella | May 29, 1913 | |
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John Peter Ivascyn | October 19, 1909 | |
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William Whittem Jenness | April 3, 1904 | |
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Adolph Johnson | July 20, 1885 | |
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Ernest A. Johnson | March 13, 1897 | |
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Stanley Everett Johnson | October 4, 1911 | |
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Allan Francis Jones | June 29, 1921 | |
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Abraham Herbert Kahalas | ||
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Sumner Z. Kaplan | February 3, 1920 | |
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William Francis Keenan | January 8, 1921 | |
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James H. Kelly | October 15, 1919 | |
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Archibald E. Kenefick | November 4, 1896 | |
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George V. Kenneally Jr. | December 29, 1929 | |
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John P. Kennedy | February 24, 1918 | |
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Edward L. Kerr | March 6, 1909 | |
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Cornelius F. Kiernan | August 15, 1917 | |
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Philip Kimball | June 6, 1918 | |
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William James Kingston | October 17, 1909 | |
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Thomas Edward Kitchen | December 16, 1924 | |
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Freyda Koplow | October 26, 1907 | |
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Walter Kostanski | December 10, 1923 | |
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Edmund Vincent Lane | August 31, 1893 | |
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John Joseph Lawless | July 15, 1912 | |
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James R. Lawton | October 20, 1925 | |
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Carter Lee | July 3, 1907 | |
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Frank F. Lemos | January 6, 1901 | |
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Peter John Levanti | March 19, 1903 | |
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Francis W. Lindstrom | December 18, 1898 | |
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John Joseph Linehan | March 26, 1933 | |
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Gerald P. Lombard | January 4, 1916 | |
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John J. Long | December 10, 1927 | |
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William Longworth | August 17, 1914 | |
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J. Robert Mahan | December 14, 1903 | |
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William E. Maloney | June 5, 1904 | |
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Francis Joseph Marr | October 10, 1927 | |
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Rico Matera | June 21, 1917 | |
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Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. | April 27, 1918 | |
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Manuel Victor Medeiros | March 15, 1908 | |
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Wilfred S. Mirsky | September 14, 1906 | |
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Joe Moakley | April 27, 1927 | |
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Robert Francis Mooney | February 16, 1931 | |
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William Dix Morton Jr. | November 5, 1904 | |
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Charles A. Mullaly Jr. | September 28, 1910 | |
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John E. Murphy | February 13, 1900 | |
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Bessie Murray | February 27, 1901 | |
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Cornelius Joseph Murray | August 19, 1890 | |
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Harold Clinton Nagle | July 27, 1917 | |
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John J. Navin | September 9, 1915 | |
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Thomas M. Newth | March 15, 1911 | |
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Leo James Normandin | December 14, 1922 | |
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William F. Nourse | September 12, 1922 | |
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Walter Wilson O'Brien | October 14, 1910 | |
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David J. O'Connor | November 9, 1924 | |
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Thomas J. O'Connor | July 27, 1925 | |
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George Henry O'Farrell | November 15, 1910 | |
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Joseph Michael O'Loughlin | November 26, 1914 | |
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George J. O'Shea Jr. | January 5, 1929 | |
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Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan | August 17, 1921 | |
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Frank B. Oliveira | ||
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William F. Otis | October 12, 1903 | |
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Harold A. Palmer | October 15, 1906 | |
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Charles Louis Patrone | March 17, 1914 | |
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Charles W. Patterson | January 30, 1917 | |
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Theodore Clark Perkins | January 7, 1915 | |
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Patrick Francis Plunkett | March 21, 1917 | |
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Michael A. Porrazzo | June 2, 1913 | |
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George William Porter | November 6, 1885 | |
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Harvey Armand Pothier | September 6, 1901 | |
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Meyer Pressman | February 11, 1907 | |
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Robert H. Quinn | January 30, 1928 | |
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Philip Andrew Quinn | February 21, 1910 | |
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William I. Randall | September 13, 1915 | |
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George E. Rawson | December 6, 1886 | |
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Leo Joseph Reynolds | February 29, 1920 | |
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Frank G. Rico | June 2, 1912 | |
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Daniel H. Rider | July 15, 1912 | |
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John E. Riley | ||
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Harold Rosen (politician) | 1906 | |
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Nathan Rosenfeld | January 31, 1906 | |
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William H. J. Rowan | June 21, 1879 | |
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Harry Della Russo | May 26, 1907 | |
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Roger A. Sala | August 8, 1893 | |
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Joseph Douglas Saulnier | April 14, 1906 | |
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Anthony M. Scibelli | October 16, 1911 | |
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John Ralph Sennott Jr. | April 22, 1910 | |
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John Ellsworth Sheldon | August 17, 1909 | |
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Joseph Silvano | March 1, 1909 | |
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Michael John Simonelli | May 9, 1913 | |
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Michael F. Skerry | January 3, 1909 | |
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Fletcher Smith Jr. | May 20, 1918 | |
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George T. Smith | March 18, 1888 | |
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Leo Sontag | August 16, 1922 | |
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Anthony William Spadafora | October 20, 1924 | |
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George William Spartichino | June 11, 1924 | |
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George I. Spatcher | February 2, 1902 | |
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C. Clifford Stone | August 20, 1897 | |
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William Christopher Sullivan | October 13, 1924 | |
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Joseph A. Sylvia | August 19, 1892 | |
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Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. | September 16, 1903 | |
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Alvin C. Tamkin | June 19, 1924 | |
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Armand N. Tancrati | May 3, 1914 | |
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Frank Daniel Tanner | February 3, 1888 | |
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Edna Telford | February 28, 1899 | |
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John F. Thompson (politician) | May 20, 1920 | |
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George Hawley Thompson | June 8, 1917 | |
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Irene Thresher | July 6, 1900 | |
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Nathaniel Tilden | November 3, 1903 | |
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Robert Xavier Tivnan | June 9, 1924 | |
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John Joseph Toomey | March 25, 1909 | |
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Henry Andrews Turner | March 22, 1887 | |
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Warren A. Turner | January 25, 1905 | |
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Earle Stanley Tyler | December 18, 1896 | |
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John Taylor Tynan | June 7, 1920 | |
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Theodore Jack Vaitses | May 8, 1901 | |
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Alfred R. Voke | February 12, 1919 | |
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Joseph Francis Walsh | February 9, 1907 | |
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Martin H. Walsh | July 31, 1916 | |
| Barclay H. Warburton III | February 5, 1922 | ||
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Chester H. Waterous | November 18, 1905 | |
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Norman S. Weinberg | 1919 | |
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Benjamin Horace White | April 11, 1902 | |
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Philip F. Whitmore | September 10, 1892 | |
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John W. Whittemore | January 30, 1906 | |
| Clarence Wilkinson | September 26, 1910 | ||
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Charles E. Wilkinson | December 26, 1883 | |
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Arthur Williams | December 14, 1915 | |
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Joseph Wisniowski | March 1, 1918 | |
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Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski | September 18, 1926 | |
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Stanislaus George Wondolowski | August 20, 1909 | |
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Alton Hamilton Worrall | April 20, 1893 | |
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Albert H. Zabriskie | December 7, 1917 | |
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Paul G. Zollo | August 26, 1904 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "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
- ^ a b c 1957–1958 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1957" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
Further reading
edit- Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957. hdl:2452/40793.
- Teale, Edwin Way; Hosmer, Gladys E. H.; Harding, Walter; Harrison, Dorothea K.; Jackson, Randolph; Nelson, Truman; Nichols, John E.; Robbins, Roland; Schoenfeldt, Arthur; Wheeler, Ruth R.; Zahniser, Howard (1958). "A letter to the members of the Massachusetts General Court". Thoreau Society Bulletin (62): 5–6. JSTOR 23397957. ("Please support Senate Bill 280 to place Walden Pond State Reservation under control of the Department of Natural Resources...")
External links
edit- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1957, hdl:2452/238761
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1957, hdl:2452/46056
- Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1958, hdl:2452/238762
- Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1958, hdl:2452/40892