1959–1960 Massachusetts legislature

The 161st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1959 and 1960 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.[4]

161st
Massachusetts General Court
160th 162nd
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 7, 1959 (1959-01-07) – November 24, 1960 (1960-11-24) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentJohn E. Powers
Party controlDemocrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Party controlDemocrat[3]
John E. Powers
John Powers, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1959-1960.

Senators

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portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk
 
Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
 
Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902
 
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
 
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
 
James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
 
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
 
Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904
 
Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
 
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
 
Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
 
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
 
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
 
Francis L. Lappin January 13, 1915
 
Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908
 
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
 
William Charles Madden July 9, 1915
 
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
 
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
Peter M. McCormack April 22, 1919
 
Arthur Joseph Mullen July 20, 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
 
Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
 
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
 
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
 
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives

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portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 
Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable
 
Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891
 
Julius Ansel April 27, 1908
 
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
 
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
 
John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
 
Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
 
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
 
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
 
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
 
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
 
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
 
Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894
 
G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
 
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
 
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
 
Lawrence F. Bretta January 12, 1928
 
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
 
John Brox November 16, 1910
 
John Patrick Buckley 1906
 
Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926
 
George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907
 
Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
 
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
 
Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
 
John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
 
Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
 
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
 
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
 
Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
 
Peter Joseph Cloherty February 19, 1923
 
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
 
Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
 
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
 
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
 
Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925
 
John W. Costello April 20, 1927
 
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
 
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
 
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
 
Richard T. Dolan January 4, 1924
 
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
John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925
 
Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
 
James V. Duffy March 14, 1920
 
John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
 
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
 
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
 
Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
 
Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924
 
Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 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
 
Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
 
Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
 
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
 
George Greene March 7, 1897
 
Henry W. Hallinan February 1, 1915
 
David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890
 
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
 
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
 
Russell Palmer Hayden February 14, 1915
 
Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
 
William John Hill October 4, 1930
 
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
 
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
 
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
 
Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926
 
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
 
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
 
Oswald Louis Jordan[6] May 9, 1912
 
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
 
Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
 
Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
 
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
 
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
 
John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
 
James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
 
Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901
 
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
 
Emmit Joseph Line June 17, 1927
 
John Joseph Linehan March 26, 1933
 
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
 
John J. Long December 10, 1927
 
William Longworth August 17, 1914
 
John Donald Bain Macmillan July 14, 1917
 
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
 
Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
 
Rico Matera June 21, 1917
 
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
 
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
 
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
 
Manuel Victor Medeiros March 15, 1908
 
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
 
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
 
Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931
 
William James Moran June 24, 1921
 
Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921
 
William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
 
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
 
James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922
 
Robert John Mulligan March 29, 1931
 
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
 
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
 
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
 
William F. Nourse September 12, 1922
 
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
 
Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921
 
William F. Otis October 12, 1903
 
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
 
Theodore Clark Perkins January 7, 1915
 
Francis Whitney Perry April 21, 1913
 
Vite Pigaga
 
Lincoln Pope Jr.[6] May 29, 1916
 
Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913
 
George William Porter November 6, 1885
 
Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
 
Stuart D. Putnam February 2, 1906
 
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
 
Antone L. Silva
 
Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
 
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
 
Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
 
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
 
George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
 
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
 
Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920
 
C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
 
William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924
 
John A. Sweeney October 22, 1926
 
Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
 
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
 
George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921
 
Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
 
J. Robert Tickle February 27, 1918
 
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
 
Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887
 
Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
 
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
 
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
 
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
 
Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
 
Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917
 
Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

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 1959–1960 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1959 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1959" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  6. ^ 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 (1959). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40794.
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  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1959, hdl:2452/238763
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1959, hdl:2452/40894
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1960, hdl:2452/265590
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1960, hdl:2452/30629