1965–1966 Massachusetts legislature

The 164th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1965 and 1966 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and John Davoren served as speaker of the House.[4] On April 22, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address to a joint session of the General Court after meeting with Massachusetts Governor John Volpe.[5] In the same month, Volpe filed a request for legislation from the state legislature that defined schools with nonwhite enrollments greater than 50 percent to be imbalanced and granted the State Board of Education the power to withhold state funds from any school district in the state that was found to have racial imbalance, which Volpe would sign into law the following August.[6][7][8]

164th
Massachusetts General Court
163rd 165th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 6, 1965 (1965-01-06) – September 7, 1966 (1966-09-07) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentMaurice A. Donahue
Majority LeaderKevin B. Harrington
Minority LeaderPhilip A. Graham
Party controlDemocrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn Davoren
Majority LeaderRobert H. Quinn
Majority WhipTheophile Jean DesRoches
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipThomas M. Newth
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Maurice A. Donahue
Maurice Donahue, Senate president.
John Davoren
John Davoren, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1965-1966.

Senators

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portrait name [4] date of birth [9] district [9]
 
Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk
 
Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
 
James F. Burke September 7, 1914
 
Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
 
John J. Conte May 3, 1930
 
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924
 
James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
 
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
 
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
George D. Hammond October 29, 1906
 
Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
 
John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930
 
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
 
James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926
 
George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929
 
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
 
James J. Long November 15, 1913
 
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
 
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
 
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
 
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
 
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927
 
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
 
Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918
 
Vite Pigaga
 
John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935
 
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
 
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
 
James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
 
Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907
 
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
 
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914
 
William D. Weeks May 9, 1926
 
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives

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portrait name [4] date of birth [9] district [9]
 
Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 5th Bristol
 
David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929
 
Robert B. Ambler [10] 1927
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
 
Jack Backman[10] April 26, 1922
 
Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914
 
David L. Barrett February 4, 1920
 
John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924
 
David M. Bartley February 9, 1935
 
Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930
 
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
 
John T. Berry November 20, 1924
 
Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923
 
Donald T. Bliss 1937
 
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
 
Stanley Joseph Bocko August 26, 1920
 
Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922
 
Royal L. Bolling June 19, 1920
 
Joseph G. Bradley June 14, 1930
 
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
 
John R. Buckley 1932
 
Charles J. Buffone 1919
 
William Bulger February 2, 1934
 
Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
 
George G. Burke August 3, 1932
 
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
 
William Francis Butters
 
Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916
 
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
 
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
 
Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899
 
William A. Carey January 28, 1920
 
Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919
 
Daniel William Carney [10] August 17, 1925
 
Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920
 
Paul A. Cataldo May 15, 1935
 
Michael Catino February 21, 1904
 
Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903
 
Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936
 
Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934
 
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
 
Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
 
John George Clark February 26, 1902
 
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
Abraham L. Cohn May 24, 1898
 
Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. September 18, 1918
 
Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910
 
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
 
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
 
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
 
George Thomas Contalonis
 
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
 
Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
 
James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
 
John J. Cronin August 1, 1910
 
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
John Davoren July 27, 1915
 
John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930
 
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
 
Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
 
Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936
 
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
 
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
 
George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919
 
Thomas Henry Doherty Jr. August 8, 1930
 
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
John F. Donovan Jr. August 21, 1931
 
James P. Downey January 9, 1911
 
Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
 
Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926
 
Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933
 
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
 
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
 
John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
 
Arnold Irving Epstein April 5, 1920
 
Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
 
Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
 
Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr April 18, 1934
 
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
 
Irving Fishman March 29, 1921
 
John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918
 
Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929
 
Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920
 
David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933
 
Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917
 
Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915
 
John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922
 
Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928
 
Lester J. Gates
 
T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914
 
Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911
 
Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930
 
James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911
 
Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913
 
Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911
 
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
 
Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936
 
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
 
David E. Harrison June 19, 1933
 
Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925
 
Michael E. Haynes[11] May 9, 1927
 
Winston Healy October 20, 1937
 
Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938
 
William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925
 
Franklin W. Holgate [11] May 3, 1929
 
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
 
Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939
 
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
 
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
John Janas September 4, 1910
 
Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926
 
Katherine Kane April 12, 1935
 
Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927
 
James H. Kelly October 15, 1919
 
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
 
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
 
Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928
 
William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928
 
Benjamin Klebanow November 2, 1900
 
Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
 
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
 
Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921
 
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
 
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
 
J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940
 
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
 
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
 
Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932
 
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
John J. Long December 10, 1927
 
William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
Joseph S. Loughman January 11, 1928
 
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
 
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
 
Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940
 
Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922
 
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
 
Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924
 
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
 
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
 
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
 
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
 
James Robert McMahon Jr.
 
John F. Melia June 5, 1915
 
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
 
William James Moran June 24, 1921
 
Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921
 
Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927
 
Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902
 
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922
 
Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932
 
Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
 
Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921
 
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
 
Patrick William Nee November 22, 1938
 
Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 
Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
 
James R. Nolen April 17, 1933
 
Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906
 
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
 
Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936
 
Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921
 
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
 
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
 
Albert P. Pettoruto September 29, 1915
 
George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928
 
Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 13, 1915
 
Paul de Hoff Reed Jr.
 
Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920
 
Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912
 
Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912
 
William G. Robinson March 10, 1926
 
J. Hilary Rockett January 16, 1935
 
George Rogers (Massachusetts politician) August 2, 1933
 
Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr November 16, 1917
 
Harold Rosen (politician) 1906
 
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
 
Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
 
George Sacco July 19, 1936
 
Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893
 
Duane Thomas Sargisson
 
Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
 
Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914
 
Frederic W. Schlosstein, Jr March 17, 1923
 
Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
 
John W. Sears December 18, 1930
 
Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931
 
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
 
Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927
 
Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933
 
Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934
 
Aaron M. I. Shinberg
 
Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914
 
Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927
 
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923
 
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
 
George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
 
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918
 
Chandler Harrison Stevens
 
Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
 
A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915
 
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
 
John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
 
David Spence Tobin March 16, 1939
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
Joseph Thomas Travaline
 
Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
 
Elbert Tuttle August 19, 1931
 
George E. Twomey February 3, 1920
 
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
 
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
 
George B. Walsh March 21, 1907
 
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
 
Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916
 
Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925
 
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
 
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
 
James G. Wheeler
 
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
 
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924
 
Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

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. ^ 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
  4. ^ a b c 1965–1966 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1965 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0029138656.
  6. ^ Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0029138656.
  7. ^ Formisano, Ronald P. (2004) [1991]. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0807855263.
  8. ^ "The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  9. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1965", Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1965, hdl:2452/796343
  10. ^ a b c State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
  11. ^ 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

Further reading

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  • Court, Massachusetts General (1965). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40797.
  • "Massachusetts Legislature Votes to Legalize Birth Control for the Married", New York Times, May 5, 1966
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