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
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 Ann Stanton May 27, 1909
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives
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 Thomas 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

References
  1. "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  2. "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. "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. 1959–1960 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1959 – via Internet Archive.
  5. "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. 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
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1959). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40794.
  • 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
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