1947–1948 Massachusetts legislature

The 155th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met from January 1, 1947, to June 18, 1948, during the governorship of Robert F. Bradford, in Boston.

155th
Massachusetts General Court
154th 156th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1946
Senate
Members40
PresidentDonald W. Nicholson, Harris S. Richardson
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerFrederick Willis (10th Essex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1947 (1947-01-01) – July 1, 1947 (1947-07-01)
2ndJanuary 7, 1948 (1948-01-07) – June 19, 1948 (1948-06-19)[3]

State Senate

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Districts

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As established by Chapter 507 of the Acts of 1939. The state census of 1935 was the basis of the apportionment.

(*)Terminated. See Acts of 1927, chapter 321; Acts of 1938, chapter 240 and 455.

Senators

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District [4] Portrait Senator[5] Date of birth [4] Party Hometown Notes
Berkshire
 
Michael H. Condron Democratic Pittsfield
Bristol First
 
Willard A. Ormsbee Republican Raynham Chairman, Aeronautics; chairman, Mercantile Affairs
Second
 
William Emmet White June 1, 1900 Democratic Fall River
Third
 
Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 Democratic New Bedford
Cape and Plymouth
 
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 Republican Wareham President of the Senate; chairman, Rules
Essex First
 
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Democratic Lynn
Second
 
J. Elmer Callahan Republican Salem Chairman, Constitutional Law
Third
 
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 Republican Rowley Chairman, State Administration
Fourth Philip K. Allen January 3, 1910 Republican Andover Chairman, Agriculture
Fifth
 
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 Democratic Lawrence
Franklin and Hampshire
 
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 Republican Orange Chairman, Education; chairman, Public Health
Hampden First
 
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 Republican Springfield Chairman, Military Affairs and Public Safety
Second
 
William E. Nolen Democratic Holyoke
Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire
 
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 Republican Northampton Chairman, Cities; chairman, Water Supply
Middlesex First
 
William C. Geary Democratic Lowell
Second
 
Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902 Republican Cambridge Chairman, Legal Affairs; chairman, Taxation
Third
 
Burton F. Faulkner Democratic Somerville
Fourth
 
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 Republican Everett Chairman, Civil Service; chairman, Departmental Rules and Regulations
Fifth
 
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 Republican Waltham Chairman, Conservation; chairman, Power and Light
Sixth
 
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 Republican Winchester Chairman, Ways and Means
Seventh
 
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 Republican Wakefield Chairman, Labor and Industries; chairman, Pensions
Middlesex and Norfolk
 
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 Republican Ashland Chairman, Public Lands; chairman, Public Welfare
Middlesex and Suffolk
 
Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 Republican Newton Chairman, Public Service
Norfolk First
 
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 Republican Quincy Chairman, Judiciary
Second
 
Mason Sears December 29, 1899 Republican Dedham Chairman, Election Laws
Norfolk and Plymouth
 
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Republican Weymouth Chairman, Bills in the Third Reading; chairman, Counties
Norfolk and Suffolk
 
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 Republican Brookline Chairman, Metropolitan Affairs
Plymouth
 
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 Republican Brockton Chairman, Engrossed Bills; chairman, Municipal Finance
Suffolk First
 
Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 Democratic Chelsea
Second
 
Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 Democratic Boston
Third
 
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 Republican Boston Chairman, Insurance
Fourth
 
John E. Powers November 10, 1910 Democratic Boston
Fifth
 
Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 Democratic Boston Minority Floor Leader
Sixth
 
Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 Democratic Boston
Seventh
 
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907 Democratic Boston
Worcester First
 
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Democratic Worcester
Second
 
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 Republican Worcester Chairman, Banks and Banking
Third
 
George W. Stanton Democratic Fitchburg
Fourth
 
Joseph Simon Virostek Republican Douglas Chairman, Towns; chairman, Transportation
Worcester and Hampden
 
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 Republican Southbridge Chairman, Highways and Motor Vehicles

Employees

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Representatives

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portrait name [5] date of birth [4] district [4]
 
Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 
Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
 
Horace Thurber Aplington
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
Charles J. Artesani
 
Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899
 
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
 
Joseph A. Aspero
 
Samuel Greenleaf Atkinson
 
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
 
Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895
 
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
William B. Bailey December 11, 1892
 
Laurence H. Banks[6]
 
Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
 
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
 
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
 
Norman S. Baxter
 
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
William Berthiaume
 
G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906
 
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
 
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
 
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
 
Stanley John Borsa
 
Gerald Timothy Bowler
 
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
 
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
 
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
 
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
 
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
 
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883
 
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910
 
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
 
Philip Courtland Burr
 
Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914
 
Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
 
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
 
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
 
Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875
 
Enrico Cappucci 1910
 
Ernest Westervelt Carman
 
Arthur B. Carney Jr.
 
John Henry Carroll
 
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
 
Daniel Casey May 7, 1890
 
Francis X. Casey
 
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
 
Philip Aloysius Chapman
William G. Clark Jr. May 6, 1912
 
David M. Cleary May 9, 1901
 
Thomas Francis Coady 1878
 
John F. Collins[7] July 20, 1919 11th Suffolk
 
Dana S. Collins
 
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
 
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
Joseph T. Conley
 
Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916
 
Michael John Conway
 
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905
 
William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
 
Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894
 
Patrick Francis Cronin
 
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911
 
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
 
John G. Curley
 
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
Lawrence Harvard Davis
 
George Walter Dean
 
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
 
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
 
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
 
Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890
 
Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896
 
Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888
 
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
 
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
 
Howard Bernard Driscoll
 
Joseph Edward Duffy September 25, 1912
 
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
 
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
 
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
 
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
Andrew E. Faulkner September 23, 1913
 
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
 
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
 
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
 
Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889
 
William J. Fitzsimons
 
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
 
John F. Foster
 
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
 
George Fuller July 24, 1893
 
John L. Gallant
 
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
 
Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
 
Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899
 
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
 
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
 
George Greene March 7, 1897 12th Suffolk
 
Francis G. Gregory
 
Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903
 
Jacob Hakala
 
James Edward Hannon
 
Francis Appleton Harding 1908
 
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
 
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
 
James Alan Hodder
 
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
 
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
 
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
 
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893
 
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
 
C. Vernon Inett
 
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
 
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
 
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
 
Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
 
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
 
Jeremiah Kamens
 
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
 
Clarence Karelitz
 
Warren Charles Karner
 
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
 
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
 
Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905
 
Thomas E. Key
 
Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901
 
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
 
George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909
 
Laurence W. Law
 
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
 
Louis Lobel August 10, 1911
 
C. Edwin Lofgren
 
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
Raymond Joseph Lord
 
Burton Elmer Loring
C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913
 
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
 
Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 10th Suffolk
 
George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877
 
William Markland
 
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
 
George Francis Martin Jr.
 
Francis V. Matera
 
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
 
Frank D. McCarthy
 
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
 
Elmer L. McCulloch
 
Samuel D. McLeod
 
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
 
Sherman Miles December 5, 1882
 
Hugh Morton
 
Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907
 
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
 
George Bernard Murphy Jr.
 
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
 
Louis K. Nathanson 12th Suffolk
 
George Burkman Norton
 
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
 
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
 
John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
 
Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895
 
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
 
Frank B. Oliveira
 
Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
 
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
 
Anthony Parenzo
 
Eben Parsons
 
Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878
 
Henry W. Pickford
Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909
 
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862 2nd Franklin
 
George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
 
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
 
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
 
Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899
 
Hallam Taylor Ring
 
Joseph D. Rivest
 
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
 
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
 
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
 
Daniel Rudsten
 
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
 
Thomas Aloysius Scanlan
 
Raymond William Schlapp
 
William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875
 
A. John Serino March 13, 1906
 
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
 
John M. Shea December 8, 1902
 
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
 
Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881
 
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
 
Charles J. Skladzien
 
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
 
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
 
Margaret Spear August 10, 1882
 
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
 
Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904
 
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
 
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
 
Paul A. Sullivan
 
Ralph Warren Sullivan
 
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
 
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
 
Clarence F. Telford
 
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
 
Harold Edward Tivey
 
Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
Talbot T. Tweedy
 
James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908
 
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
 
Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
 
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
 
John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878
 
James T. Violette
 
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
 
John Cummings Webster Jr.
 
Norman F. Wellen
 
John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881
 
Malcolm Stuart White
 
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905
 
John S. Whittemore
 
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
 
Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910
 
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
 
Albert E. Wood
 
Clarence A. Wood
 
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
 
Arthur Eaton Young
 
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

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. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1947" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  5. ^ a b 1947-1948 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. ^ Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
  7. ^ Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

Further reading

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  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1946), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1947, hdl:2452/43438
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1947). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40788.
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1947, hdl:2452/219469
  • Massachusetts, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1948, hdl:2452/219470
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1947, hdl:2452/55996
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1948, hdl:2452/55997