1969–1970 Massachusetts legislature

The 166th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1969 and 1970 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.[4]

166th
Massachusetts General Court
165th 167th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1968
Senate
Members40
PresidentMaurice A. Donahue (2nd Hampden district)
Majority LeaderKevin B. Harrington
Majority WhipMario Umana
Minority LeaderJohn Francis Parker
Minority WhipWilliam D. Weeks
Party controlDemocrat[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerDavid M. Bartley
Majority LeaderThomas W. McGee
Majority WhipPaul F. Murphy
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipGeorge W. Shattuck
Party controlDemocrat[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1969 (1969-01-01) – August 25, 1969 (1969-08-25)
2ndJanuary 7, 1970 (1970-01-07) – August 25, 1970 (1970-08-25)[3]
Maurice A. Donahue
Maurice Donahue, Senate president.
David M. Bartley
David Bartley, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1969.

Senators

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk
 
John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924
 
James F. Burke September 7, 1914
 
Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934
 
Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
 
John J. Conte May 3, 1930
 
James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
 
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
 
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921
 
Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
 
George D. Hammond October 29, 1906
 
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
 
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
 
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
 
Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934
 
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
 
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
 
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
 
George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924
 
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
 
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927
 
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
 
Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918
 
John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935
 
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
 
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
 
James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
 
William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927
 
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, 1924

Representatives

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portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 
James A. Adams December 24, 1923
 
Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 10th Bristol
 
David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929
 
Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942
 
Robert B. Ambler [7] 1927
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
Robert S. Aronson July 3, 1920
 
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
 
Roger Sumner Babb 1935
 
Jack Backman[7] April 26, 1922
 
Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914
 
David M. Bartley February 9, 1935
 
Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930
 
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
 
Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933
 
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
 
George Bourque 1913
 
John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917
 
James John Bowler July 18, 1923
 
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
 
John R. Buckley 1932
 
Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931
 
Nicholas J. Buglione 1932
 
William Bulger February 2, 1934
 
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
 
Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912
 
Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916
 
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
 
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
 
William A. Carey January 28, 1920
 
Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919
 
Daniel William Carney [7] August 17, 1925
 
Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903
 
Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936
 
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
Rudy Chmura March 21, 1932
 
Steve T. Chmura March 29, 1928
 
John F. Coffey February 7, 1918
 
Lincoln P. Cole Jr. September 18, 1918
 
Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910
 
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
 
William Augustine Connell Jr. November 17, 1922
 
James S. Conway July 4, 1930
 
Francis X. Coppinger March 12, 1935
 
Paul J. Corriveau July 3, 1930
 
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
 
Gilbert W. Cox Jr. February 28, 1933
 
James J. Craven Jr. March 24, 1919
 
Robert Creedon November 13, 1942
 
Thomas E. Creighton February 1, 1922
 
Paul W. Cronin March 14, 1938
 
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
Michael John Daly July 18, 1940
 
Richard W. Daly March 25, 1936
 
Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940
 
Joseph Del Grosso July 25, 1904
 
John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930
 
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
 
Edward J. Dever Jr. June 21, 1936
 
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
 
Anthony R. DiFruscia June 5, 1940
 
George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919
 
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
 
Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926
 
Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933
 
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
 
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
 
Charles F. Engdahl July 3, 1921
 
Seymour F. Epstein November 7, 1919
 
Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
 
Vernon R. Farnsworth Jr. April 18, 1934
 
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938
 
Irving Fishman March 29, 1921
 
Charles Flaherty (politician) October 13, 1938
 
Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936
 
Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929
 
Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920
 
David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933
 
Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921
 
Maurice E. Frye Jr. February 6, 1921
 
Edward F. Galotti May 11, 1925
 
Ann Gannett November 7, 1916
 
Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926
 
T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914
 
J. Laurence Golden June 10, 1933
 
Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930
 
James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911
 
Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913
 
Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911
 
Barry T. Hannon November 21, 1935
 
Walter J. Hannon September 4, 1931
 
Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936
 
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
 
J. Edmond Harris November 17, 1916
 
David E. Harrison June 19, 1933
 
Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925
 
Michael E. Haynes[8] May 9, 1927
 
Winston Healy October 20, 1937
 
Theodore M. Herman October 5, 1919
 
Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938
 
William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925
 
Franklin W. Holgate [8] May 3, 1929
 
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
 
Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939
 
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
John Janas September 4, 1910
 
Daniel L. Joyce Jr. May 14, 1934
 
Francis M. Keane April 8, 1933
 
Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927
 
F. Leo Kenney November 15, 1902
 
Walter T. Kerr May 20, 1918
 
George Keverian June 3, 1931
 
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
 
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928
 
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
 
Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921
 
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
 
Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927
 
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
 
Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917
 
Francis C. Lapointe January 13, 1939
 
J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940
 
Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr. September 3, 1934
 
David Samuel Liederman April 26, 1935
 
Martin A. Linsky August 28, 1940
 
Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932
 
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
Michael J. Lombardi May 27, 1917
 
Charles W. Long August 14, 1940
 
John J. Long December 10, 1927
 
John C. Losch March 23, 1932
 
Charles A. MacKenzie Jr. February 4, 1919
 
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
 
Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940
 
Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922
 
Charles Mann April 27, 1935
 
M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924
 
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
 
Clifford Marshall December 14, 1937
 
Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926
 
Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. October 28, 1909
 
Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932
 
Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941
 
Edward A. McColgan March 20, 1932
 
Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924
 
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
 
John Austin Shaw McGlennon August 10, 1935
 
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
 
Charles M. McGowan November 13, 1923
 
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
 
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
 
John F. Melia June 5, 1915
 
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
 
John J. Mooney August 14, 1930
 
Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921
 
Louis J. Morini October 8, 1907
 
Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932
 
Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
 
Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921
 
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
 
Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 
James R. Nolen April 17, 1933
 
Nils L. Nordberg November 6, 1934
 
Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906
 
James Anthony O'Brien Jr. June 22, 1919
 
John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937
 
Norton Cornelius O'Brien April 9, 1907
 
Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
 
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
 
Philip Conroy O'Donnell July 29, 1915
 
Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936
 
Carl R. Ohlson June 4, 1925
 
John Olver September 3, 1936
 
Bernard Paquette February 2, 1919
 
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
 
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
 
William A. Pickett June 10, 1935
 
Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915
 
Vincent J. Piro 1931
 
Manuel Raposa Jr. May 13, 1915
 
Harry A. S. Read November 18, 1936
 
William Reinstein March 26, 1929
 
Robert C. Reynolds November 6, 1934
 
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
 
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
 
Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
 
William H. Ryan July 17, 1938
 
George Sacco July 19, 1936
 
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
 
Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931
 
Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923
 
I. Edward Serlin August 21, 1912
 
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
 
H. James Shea Jr. December 10, 1939
 
C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916
 
Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934
 
Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927
 
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923
 
Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942
 
John J. Slater Jr. November 27, 1925
 
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
 
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
William J. Spence May 4, 1930
 
John F. St. Cyr January 8, 1936
 
Kevin C. Sullivan
 
Charles Tagman
 
A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915
 
Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
Daniel C. Towse December 5, 1924
 
George E. Twomey February 3, 1920
 
Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920
 
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
 
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
 
Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925
 
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
 
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
 
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
Richard L. Wood
 
George L. Woods Jr. March 28, 1925
 
George Chester Young September 18, 1912
 
Bruce H. Zeiser
 
Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

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 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ a b c State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
  8. ^ 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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  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1968), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1969, hdl:2452/43460
  • "Democrats Gain Firm Control Of Massachusetts Legislature", New York Times, November 8, 1968
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1969). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40799.
  • John F. Parker (1985), "High Drama at the State House: 'The House Cut' (Feb. 25, 1970)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
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