1967–1968 Massachusetts legislature

The 165th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1967 and 1968 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and Robert H. Quinn served as speaker of the House.[4]

165th
Massachusetts General Court
←164th 166th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1966
Senate
Members40
PresidentMaurice A. Donahue
Majority LeaderKevin B. Harrington
Majority WhipMario Umana
Minority LeaderJohn Francis Parker
Minority WhipWilliam D. Weeks
Party controlDemocrat[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerRobert H. Quinn
Majority LeaderThomas W. McGee
Majority WhipJohn Cornelius Bresnahan
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipThomas M. Newth
Party controlDemocrat[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1967 (1967-01-04) – January 2, 1968 (1968-01-02)
2ndJanuary 3, 1968 (1968-01-03) – July 20, 1968 (1968-07-20)[3]
Maurice Donahue
Maurice Donahue, Senate president.
Robert Quinn
Robert Quinn, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1967.

Senators
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
Harold Clasky March 2, 1896
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
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
Ronald MacKenzie May 3, 1934
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
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
Donald N. Ryan January 27, 1930
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

Representatives
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 5th Bristol
 David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929
Robert B. Ambler [7] 1927
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
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
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 Sr.[8] June 19, 1920
John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917
James John Bowler July 18, 1923
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
Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899
William A. Carey September 2, 1899
Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919
Daniel William Carney [7] August 17, 1925
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 Thomas Chmura August 25, 1916
Steve T. Chmura March 29, 1928
John George Clark February 26, 1902
John F. Coffey February 7, 1918
Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. September 18, 1918
Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
George Thomas Contalonis
Paul J. Corriveau July 3, 1930
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
Michael A. D'Avolio
Michael John Daly July 18, 1940
Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940
John Davoren July 27, 1915
John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
Anthony R. DiFruscia June 5, 1940
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 Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
Arnold Irving Epstein April 5, 1920
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
Maurice E. Frye, Jr February 6, 1921
Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928
Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926
T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914
Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911
Harold D. Gould Jr. May 18, 1934
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
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
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
James P. Hurrell March 1, 1944
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
John Janas September 4, 1910
Katherine Kane April 12, 1935
Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927
F. Leo Kenney November 15, 1902
Walter T. Kerr May 20, 1918
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
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
Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
Arthur Joseph Lewis, Jr. September 3, 1934
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
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
William Longworth August 17, 1914
Joseph S. Loughman January 11, 1928
Charles A. MacKenzie, Jr February 4, 1919
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
Donald Warren Madsen July 13, 1924
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
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
Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. October 28, 1909
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
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
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
Louis J. Morini October 8, 1907
Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927
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
 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
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
George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910
Gerald O'Leary August 7, 1933
Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936
Bernard Paquette February 2, 1919
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928
Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 13, 1915
Harry A. S. Read November 18, 1936
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
Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923
I. Edward Serlin August 21, 1912
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916
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 I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
John F. St. Cyr January 8, 1936
Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918
Chandler Harrison Stevens
A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930
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
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
George B. Walsh March 21, 1907
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
Frederick McClellan Whitney Jr. December 12, 1922
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
George Chester Young September 18, 1912
Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924
Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

See also

References
  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. Norman L. Pidgeon and William C. Maiers. 1967–1968 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1967", Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1967, hdl:2452/796352
  7. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
  8. 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
  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1966), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1967, hdl:2452/43458
  • "The New Legislature", Boston Globe, January 4, 1967
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1967). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston. hdl:2452/40798.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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