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The 162nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1961 and 1962 during the governorship of John Volpe. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.[5] In 1962, the General Court expanded the University of Massachusetts outside of the Amherst campus with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.[6][7]

162nd
Massachusetts General Court
←161st 163rd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1960
Senate
Members40
PresidentJohn E. Powers
Majority LeaderMaurice A. Donahue
Minority LeaderFred I. Lamson
Party controlDemocrat (25 D, 14 R)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Majority LeaderCornelius F. Kiernan
Majority WhipWilliam H. Finnegan
Minority LeaderFrank S. Giles
Minority WhipJohn A. Armstrong
Party controlDemocrat (156 D, 83 R)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1961 (1961-01-04) – May 27, 1961 (1961-05-27)
2ndJanuary 3, 1962 (1962-01-03) – July 27, 1962 (1962-07-27)[4]
John E. Powers
John Powers, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1961.

Senators

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portrait name [8] date of birth [9] district [9]
 
 John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk
 
 Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
 
 Thomas S. Burgin
 
 James F. Burke September 7, 1914
 
 Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902
 
 Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
 
 Richard Caples December 23, 1921
 
 Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916
 
 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
 C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916
 
 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
 
 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
 
 A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910
 
 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
 
 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
 Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
 
 John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930
 
 William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
 James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927
 
 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
 
 Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
 
 James J. Long November 15, 1913
 
 Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
 
 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
 
 Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
 
 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
 
 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
 
 John E. Powers November 10, 1910
 
 James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
 
 Antone L. Silva
 
 Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
 
 Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
 
 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
 
 George A. Sullivan Jr.
 
 Mario Umana May 5, 1914
 
 William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
 Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives

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portrait name [8] date of birth [9] district [9]
 
 Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable
 
 George L. Allen
 
 Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891
 
 Julius Ansel April 27, 1908
 
 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
 Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
 
 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
 
 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
 Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
 
 John T. Berry November 20, 1924
 
 Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923
 
 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
 
 Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916
 
 Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900
 
 Belden Bly September 29, 1914
 
 Stanley Joseph Bocko August 26, 1920
 
 Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922
 
 Royal L. Bolling Sr.[10] June 19, 1920
 
 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
 
 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
 
 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
 Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
 
 Lawrence F. Bretta January 12, 1928
 
 Alfred Sylvester Brothers[10] November 4, 1919
 
 John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
 John Brox November 16, 1910
 
 John Patrick Buckley 1906
 
 Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926
 
 William Bulger February 2, 1934
 
 George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907
 
 Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
 
 Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
 
 Patrick Edmund Callaghan August 13, 1895
 
 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
 
 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
 
 Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
 
 Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899
 
 William A. Carey January 28, 1920
 
 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920
 
 William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
 
 Michael Catino February 21, 1904
 
 John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921
 
 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
 
 Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
 
 John George Clark February 26, 1902
 
 Peter Joseph Cloherty February 19, 1923
 
 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
 
 Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
 
 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
 
 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
 Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
 
 William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
 
 James C. Corcoran Jr. September 22, 1926
 
 Beatrice Corliss October 21, 1910
 
 Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925
 
 Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
 Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
 
 Robert Q. Crane March 21, 1926
 
 James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
 
 Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908
 
 John J. Cronin August 1, 1910
 
 Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
 
 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
 Michael A. D'Avolio
 
 Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924
 
 John Davoren July 27, 1915
 
 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
 
 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
 
 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
 
 Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928
 
 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
 Henry C. Donnelly April 13, 1922
 
 Thomas Francis Donohue December 6, 1902
 
 Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908
 
 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
 
 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
 
 James V. Duffy March 14, 1920
 
 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
 
 Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
 
 Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
 
 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
 Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921
 
 A. Richard Ferullo December 29, 1929
 
 Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr. December 13, 1918
 
 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
 
 John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918
 
 Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
 
 Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924
 
 Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 20, 1917
 
 Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917
 
 Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915
 
 John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922
 
 Joseph Garczynski, Jr February 14, 1927
 
 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
 
 Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911
 
 Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
 
 Robert C. Hahn March 25, 1921
 
 David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890
 
 Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
 
 Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
 
 Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
 
 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
 
 J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
 
 Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
 
 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
 
 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
 Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926
 
 Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
 
 William F. Joyce July 26, 1909
 
 Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920
 
 William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
 
 James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926
 
 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919
 
 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896
 
 George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929
 
 John P. Kennedy February 24, 1918
 
 Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909
 
 Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
 
 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
 
 William James Kingston October 17, 1909
 
 Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928
 
 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
 
 Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
 
 Albert Kramer July 4, 1933
 
 Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
 
 Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917
 
 John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
 
 James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
 
 Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901
 
 Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
 
 David H. Locke August 4, 1927
 
 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
 John J. Long December 10, 1927
 
 William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
 William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
 
 J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
 
 Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
 
 Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
 
 Rico Matera June 21, 1917
 
 George C. McDermott
 
 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
 
 Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
 
 John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
 
 Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
 
 James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
 
 George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924
 
 Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
 
 Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931
 
 William James Moran June 24, 1921
 
 Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921
 
 Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902
 
 William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
 
 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
 James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922
 
 Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
 
 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
 Lorenz Francis Muther Jr. September 26, 1908
 
 John J. Navin September 9, 1915
 
 Michael Anthony Nazzaro Jr. June 2, 1925
 
 Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 
 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
 
 James R. Nolen April 17, 1933
 
 Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922
 
 James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919
 
 John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937
 
 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
 
 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
 
 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910
 
 Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914
 
 George J. O'Shea Jr. January 5, 1929
 
 William F. Otis October 12, 1903
 
 Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921
 
 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
 
 Francis Whitney Perry April 21, 1913
 
 Vite Pigaga
 
 Lincoln Pope Jr. May 29, 1916
 
 George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
 Auville Wright Putnam
 
 Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928
 
 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
 
 William I. Randall September 13, 1915
 
 George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
 
 Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920
 
 Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912
 
 Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912
 
 Harold Rosen (politician) 1906
 
 Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
 
 Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
 
 Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907
 
 Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893
 
 Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
 
 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
 
 John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910
 
 Vincent Joseph Shanley January 27, 1916
 
 Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927
 
 Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933
 
 Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914
 
 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
 George T. Smith March 18, 1888
 
 Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
 
 George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
 
 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
 Garrett Henry Spillane Jr.
 
 Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920
 
 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
 
 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
 
 Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924
 
 Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914
 
 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
 
 John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
 
 George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921
 
 J. Robert Tickle February 27, 1918
 
 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
 Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887
 
 Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
 
 Leo J. Turo December 11, 1923
 
 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
 
 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
 
 Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
 
 Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919
 
 George B. Walsh March 21, 1907
 
 Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
 
 Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916
 
 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905
 
 Norman S. Weinberg 1919
 
 Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902
 
 Thomas M. White
 
 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
 
 John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906
 
 Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
 
 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917
 
 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Directory of State Legislators: Massachusetts", Book of the States (PDF), Chicago: Council of State Governments, 1961, Supplement I, February 1961
  2. ^ "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. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  5. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  6. ^ Feldberg, Michael (2015). UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth-Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1625341693.
  7. ^ More, Ellen S. (2012). The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research. Worcester, MA: University of Massachusetts Medical School. p. 16. doi:10.13028/e2m6-hs02.
  8. ^ a b 1961-1962 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1961.
  9. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1961" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  10. ^ a b Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

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