1939 Massachusetts legislature
Joseph Cotton, Senate president.
Christian Herter, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1939.
The 151st Massachusetts General Court , consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives , met in 1939 during the governorship of Leverett Saltonstall . Joseph R. Cotton served as president of the Senate and Christian Herter served as speaker of the House.[ 4]
"1939 was the first year the General Court began meeting every other year instead of annually. ...No session was held in 1940 and no legislation or other materials relating thereof was published during that year."[ 5]
Senators
Portrait
Name [ 6]
Date of Birth [ 7]
District [ 7]
Frank David Babcock
August 16, 1877
4th Essex
Wilfred P. Bazinet
Chandler Bigelow
Arthur Franklin Blanchard
January 27, 1883
David M. Brackman
Thomas M. Burke
May 30, 1898
Albert Cole (Massachusetts politician)
December 28, 1904
Louis Benedict Connors
Joseph R. Cotton
November 16, 1890
Laurence Curtis
September 3, 1893
Chester A. Dolan Jr.
September 20, 1907
Joseph F. Francis
July 2, 1893
Eugene H. Giroux
January 20, 1903
Angier Goodwin
January 30, 1881
William Patrick Grant
November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn
June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley
July 15, 1875
Arthur W. Hollis
April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes
August 30, 1891
Jarvis Hunt (politician)
March 28, 1904
Thomas H. Johnston
March 5, 1872
John E. Kerrigan
October 1, 1908
George W. Krapf
Thomas J. Lane
July 6, 1898
Joseph A. Langone Jr.
September 8, 1896
Harold R. Lundgren
May 22, 1894
John D. Mackay
April 7, 1872
Joseph Patrick McCooey
Charles Gardner Miles
December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Edward O'Hearn Mullowney
Joseph L. Murphy
January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson
August 11, 1888
Edward H. Nutting
July 6, 1869
Edwin Lawrence Olander
October 31, 1891
Edmund S. Oppenheimer
Harris S. Richardson
January 10, 1887
Mason Sears
December 29, 1899
Chester T. Skibinski
Bernard Lucian Sullivan
Representatives
Portrait
Name [ 6]
Date of Birth [ 7]
District [ 7]
Wilfred J. Achin
May 12, 1891
14th Middlesex
William A. Akeroyd
October 24, 1883
Theodore Andrews
August 23, 1893
George T. Ashe
February 6, 1905
Josiah Babcock Jr.
May 21, 1880
Robert S. Backus
William Brooks Baker
January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin
January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet
December 2, 1892
Frederick M. Barnicoat
George L. Barrus
December 15, 1880
Thomas A. Barry
May 12, 1895
Walter Ray Baylies
April 28, 1902
Fred D. Beaudoin
Malcolm Lawrie Bell
November 30, 1890
Albert Bergeron
June 28, 1877
Albert Bergeron
June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette
March 25, 1876
Albert F. Bigelow
October 4, 1880
10th Norfolk
Fred Arthur Blake
January 13, 1895
Edward Boland
October 1, 1911
Albert Lionel Bourgeois
June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker
April 17, 1899
G. Edward Bradley
October 21, 1906
Edward T. Brady
October 23, 1908
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan
September 30, 1888
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom
June 25, 1899
J. Kenney Brooks
Russell P. Brown
August 24, 1891
Frank Eben Brown
January 14, 1890
William Albert Brown
February 5, 1888
Arthur I. Burgess
October 13, 1894
Harland Burke
April 22, 1888
John F. Burns
J. Elmer Callahan
Colin James Cameron
August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell
December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless
June 4, 1875
Enrico Cappucci
1910
Andrew F. Carlin
Gustaf A. Carlson
Fred Carpenter
Sydney G. Carpenter Jr.
John Henry Carroll
Eddie D. Carson
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)
June 27, 1905
Bernard P. Casey
July 29, 1894
John M. Cawley
Ralph Vester Clampit
March 28, 1896
Frank Clarkson
June 21, 1877
Andrew J. Coakley
November 6, 1906
John W. Coddaire Jr.
James S. Coffey
February 5, 1899
John T. Comerford
June 8, 1887
Michael H. Condron
Michael John Conway
Charles H. Cooke
May 13, 1878
Arthur W. Coolidge
October 13, 1881
August Joseph Cormier
George Chauncey Cousens
September 20, 1905
Francis X. Coyne
March 15, 1892
Thomas F. Coyne
John Joseph Craven
August 29, 1907
Nelson B. Crosby
June 20, 1871
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley
May 16, 1911
Leslie Bradley Cutler
March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
George F. Dean
Hiram Nichols Dearborn
December 21, 1867
Roger Dennett
September 14, 1895
Oscar DeRoy
Leo E. Diehl
Grover N. Dodge
Fred Belding Dole
January 23, 1895
Cornelius P. Donovan
March 15, 1895
Susan Bradley Donovan
October 2, 1895
Joseph H. Downey
December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle
August 8, 1895
Ernest W. Dullea
January 14, 1891
Edwin F. Eldredge
Sven August Erickson
December 9, 1875
Gustave William Everberg
June 24, 1890
Michael Paul Feeney
March 26, 1907
William Daniel Fleming
April 14, 1907
Keith Falconer Fletcher
September 24, 1900
Paul W. Foster
Douglass Brooks Francis
Stephen L. French
March 9, 1892
Clarence Henry Fuller
Richard I. Furbush
January 4, 1904
Thomas F. Gibson
William R. Gilman
Paul Martin Goddard
Hollis M. Gott
May 25, 1885
Peter J. Graham
Thomas J. Hannon
December 9, 1900
Joseph J. Harnisch
December 28, 1883
William Henry Haskell
William Alexander Hastings
February 22, 1868
Lawrence Alanson Haworth
May 23, 1871
Charles W. Hedges
March 27, 1901
Christian Herter
March 28, 1895
Joseph Allan Hines
Charles V. Hogan
April 12, 1897
Theodore P. Hollis
Charles F. Holman
June 21, 1892
Hugh C. Hunter
Fred A. Hutchinson
April 5, 1881
Charles John Innes
June 1, 1901
George A. Innes
Harvey Iris
Adolph Johnson
July 20, 1885
William A. Jones
March 27, 1885
Peter John Jordan
July 23, 1910
Harry Kalus
Charles Kaplan
September 26, 1895
Charles A. Kelley
March 24, 1862
Francis Joseph Kelley
March 21, 1890
John Joseph Kerrigan Jr.
John V. Kimball
July 17, 1875
Rudolph King
November 2, 1887
John Quincy Knowles
May 21, 1895
Morris Kritzman
Leo P. Landry
July 10, 1897
John Whitin Lasell
Laurence W. Law
Walter E. Lawrence
December 8, 1905
George J. Leary
Frank M. Leonardi
August 17, 1891
Ralph Lerche
August 19, 1899
Thomas E. Linehan
Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr.
August 29, 1907
William Christopher Lunney
December 24, 1910
Joseph Francis Luz
Philip J. Lynch
Donald Alexander MacDonald
February 21, 1893
Frank E. MacLean
Arthur Ulton Mahan
June 18, 1900
Ralph Collins Mahar
January 4, 1912
John Francis Manning
January 4, 1906
Philip M. Markley
March 28, 1897
James P. McAndrews
Charles Joseph McCaffrey
January 16, 1898
Paul Andrew McCarthy
December 23, 1902
Thomas Francis McCready
James Patrick McDevitt
James J. McGrail
Lawrence P. McHugh
Hubert L. McLaughlin
George Francis McMahon
Philip McMorrow
James Joseph Mellen
June 16, 1910
Joseph A. Melley
March 1, 1902
Julian R. Merchant
Joseph A. Milano
April 8, 1883
Daniel Joseph Minihan
William E. Mooney
Alfred James Moore
August 7, 1891
Walter James Moran
December 22, 1903
Lester Bertram Morley
April 19, 1903
Albert Edward Morris
April 4, 1903
Frank J. Morrison
September 2, 1902
Eric A. Nelson
July 6, 1899
Michael J. Neville
October 19, 1899
Leo F. Nourse
Joseph N. O'Kane
May 26, 1873
Tip O'Neill
December 9, 1912
George Joseph O'Shea
November 16, 1899
Charles William Olson
August 24, 1889
David M. Owens Jr.
Raymond P. Palmer
December 27, 1895
George Alanson Parker
Royal Bartlett Patriquin
January 7, 1895
James Austin Peckham
Harold Squire Pedler
Tycho Mouritz Petersen
August 29, 1892
Frederick Everett Pierce
May 5, 1862
Roy W. Pigeon
John E. Powers
November 10, 1910
John D. Pratt
Benjamin B. Priest
William Eben Ramsdell
May 4, 1895
William G. Reed
George Edmund Rice
February 22, 1899
Ralph Lewis Ricketson
Joseph N. Roach
March 22, 1883
Charles Holmes Roberts Jr.
George Whiting Roberts
Nathan Rosenfeld
January 31, 1906
Cyrus Cole Rounseville Jr.
William H. J. Rowan
June 21, 1879
Albert Rubin
January 15, 1872
William F. Runnells
February 18, 1865
Roland D. Sawyer
January 8, 1874
William J. Sessions
December 18, 1859
Philip Sherman
Edward Sirois
December 18, 1898
Frank William Smith
January 26, 1895
George E. Smith
Roy C. Smith
January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow
April 25, 1914
J. Francis Southgate
May 4, 1883
Manford Root Spalding
Richard H. Stacy
August 18, 1864
Edward William Staves
May 9, 1887
Avery W. Steele
August 1, 1907
George Ward Stetson
May 31, 1902
Leo J. Sullivan
December 8, 1905
Charles F. Jeff Sullivan
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan
March 9, 1905
John Timothy Sullivan
March 27, 1906
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan
November 18, 1904
Martin Swanson
July 20, 1872
Chester Randall Swenson
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.
September 16, 1903
Valmore P. Tetreault
Nathaniel Tilden
November 3, 1903
James Francis Tobin
May 8, 1903
John E. Troy Jr.
Herbert Lewis Trull
Cornelius Joseph Twomey
Christopher J. Tyrrell
June 21, 1895
John H. Valentine
July 21, 1896
James L. Vallely
John W. Vaughan
March 20, 1878
James T. Violette
Ira C. Ward
March 7, 1862
John B. Wenzler
June 11, 1881
Edgar A. Whitcomb
John Philip White
William Emmet White
June 1, 1900
Otis M. Whitney
March 25, 1909
Joseph L. Whiton
Ralph E. Williams
Frederick Willis (American politician)
May 18, 1904
Carl A. Woekel
Henry Eden Wright
Morton E. York
Arthur Lincoln Youngman
Abraham I. Zimon
See also
References
^ "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
^ "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
^ "Length of Legislative Sessions" . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780" . Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
^ Kaitlin Connolly (January 5, 2016), "Short-Lived Biennial Legislative Session System in Massachusetts" , State Library of Massachusetts blog
^ a b Public Officials of Massachusetts 1939-'40 . Boston Review. 1939.
^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1939" (PDF) , Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
Further reading
Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1938) , Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1939, hdl :2452/43430
Court, Massachusetts General (1939). Manual for the Use of the General Court . Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl :2452/40708 .
External links
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1939 , hdl :2452/265589
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1939 , hdl :2452/60143
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