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1957–1958 Massachusetts legislature

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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]

160th
Massachusetts General Court
←159th 161st→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 2, 1957 (1957-01-02) – October 17, 1958 (1958-10-17) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentNewland H. Holmes
Party controlRepublican[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Newland H. Holmes
Newland Holmes, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1957-1958.

Senators edit

portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 
 John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk
 
 Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
 
 Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
 
 Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902
 
 Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
 
 Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
 
 James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
 
 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
 
 Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921
 
 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
 
 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
 
 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
 
 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
 
 A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910
 
 Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904
 
 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
 
 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
 William E. Hays November 28, 1903
 
 Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
 
 James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927
 
 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
 
 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
 
 Warren Sherman Keith June 12, 1892
 
 Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
 
 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
 Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
 
 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
 
 Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906
 
 Arthur Joseph Mullen July 20, 1922
 
 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
 
 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
 
 John E. Powers November 10, 1910
 
 Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
 
 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921
 
 Mario Umana May 5, 1914
 
 William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
 John Yerxa April 23, 1904
 
 Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives edit

portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 
 Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable
 
 Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897
 
 Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891
 
 Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
 
 Ernest W. April January 15, 1915
 
 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
 Charles J. Artesani
 
 John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
 
 John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
 
 Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
 
 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
 
 James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
 
 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
 Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910
 
 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
 
 Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916
 
 Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900
 
 Belden Bly September 29, 1914
 
 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
 
 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
 
 Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894
 
 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
 
 Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917
 
 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
 John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
 John Brox November 16, 1910
 
 John Patrick Buckley 1906
 
 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
 
 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
 
 Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
 
 Richard Caples December 23, 1921
 
 Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920
 
 Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
 
 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
 
 Alexander J. Cella March 1, 1929
 
 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
 
 Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
 
 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
 
 Stephen Thomas Chmura August 25, 1916
 
 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
 
 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
 
 George Raymand Como July 3, 1912
 
 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
 Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
 
 William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
 
 Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925
 
 John W. Costello April 20, 1927
 
 Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
 
 William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
 
 Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
 
 Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916
 
 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
 
 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
 
 John A. Davis May 9, 1912
 
 John Davoren July 27, 1915
 
 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
 
 Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910
 
 Wilfred Adolphus Derosier March 2, 1908
 
 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
 
 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
 
 Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928
 
 Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919
 
 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
 Richard T. Dolan January 4, 1924
 
 James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
 
 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
 
 Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908
 
 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925
 
 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
 
 Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
 
 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
 
 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
 
 Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
 
 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
 
 Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921
 
 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
 
 Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924
 
 Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915
 
 Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
 
 Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915
 
 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
 
 Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
 
 Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
 
 Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
 
 Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
 
 George Greene March 7, 1897
 
 Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
 
 Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
 
 Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928
 
 George W. Hill September 15, 1888
 
 Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
 
 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
 
 Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
 
 J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
 
 Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
 
 Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917
 
 Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913
 
 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
 William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
 
 Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
 
 Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
 
 Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
 
 Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
 
 Abraham Herbert Kahalas
 
 Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920
 
 William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
 
 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
 
 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
 
 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
 
 William James Kingston October 17, 1909
 
 Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
 
 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
 
 Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
 
 Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
 
 John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
 
 James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
 
 Carter Lee July 3, 1907
 
 Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901
 
 Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
 
 Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
 
 John Joseph Linehan March 26, 1933
 
 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
 John J. Long December 10, 1927
 
 William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
 J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
 
 William E. Maloney June 5, 1904
 
 Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
 
 Rico Matera June 21, 1917
 
 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
 
 Manuel Victor Medeiros March 15, 1908
 
 Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906
 
 Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
 
 Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931
 
 William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
 
 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
 John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
 
 Bessie Murray February 27, 1901
 
 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
 
 John J. Navin September 9, 1915
 
 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
 
 Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922
 
 William F. Nourse September 12, 1922
 
 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
 
 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
 
 Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925
 
 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910
 
 Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914
 
 George J. O'Shea Jr. January 5, 1929
 
 Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921
 
 Frank B. Oliveira
 
 William F. Otis October 12, 1903
 
 Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
 
 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
 
 Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917
 
 Theodore Clark Perkins January 7, 1915
 
 Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
 
 Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913
 
 George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
 Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
 
 Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
 
 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
 
 John E. Riley
 
 Harold Rosen (politician) 1906
 
 Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
 
 William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
 
 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
 
 John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909
 
 Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
 
 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
 Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
 
 Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
 
 George T. Smith March 18, 1888
 
 Leo Sontag August 16, 1922
 
 Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924
 
 George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
 
 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
 
 William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924
 
 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
 
 Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
 
 Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924
 
 Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914
 
 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
 
 Edna Telford February 28, 1899
 
 John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
 
 George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917
 
 Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
 
 Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
 
 Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
 
 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
 Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887
 
 Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
 
 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
 
 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
 
 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
 
 Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919
 
 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
 
 Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916
Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922
 
 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905
 
 Norman S. Weinberg 1919
 
 Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902
 
 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
 
 John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906
Clarence Wilkinson September 26, 1910
 
 Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883
 
 Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
 
 Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918
 
 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
 Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
 
 Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
 
 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917
 
 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also edit

References edit

  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 1957–1958 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ 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
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