1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature

153rd
Massachusetts General Court
←152nd 154th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
Senate
Members40
House
Members240

The 153rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1943 and 1944.[1]

Senators

Portrait Name [1] Date of Birth [2] District [2]
Benjamin J. Bowen January 19, 1876
Richard S. Bowers June 18, 1900
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 1st Hampden
William R. Conley September 1, 1900
Arthur W. Coolidge October 13, 1881
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
Joseph F. Francis July 2, 1893
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
Eugene H. Giroux January 20, 1903
Maurice M. Goldman
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
J. Frank Hughes
Jarvis Hunt (politician) March 28, 1904
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872
Robert L. Lee
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
Donald Alexander MacDonald February 21, 1893
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872
James P. McAndrews
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888
William E. Nolen
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
James Austin Peckham
Benjamin B. Priest
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887
Edward Rowe March 17, 1902
George W. Stanton
Everett W. Stone
Charles F. Sullivan October 10, 1904
Leo J. Sullivan December 8, 1905
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives

Portrait Name [1] Date of Birth [2] District [2]
Wilfred J. Achin May 12, 1891 3rd Berkshire
Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
Theodore Andrews August 23, 1893
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899
William F. Askin May 6, 1896
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
Willis L. Baker June 25, 1875
Charles Homer Barrett June 23, 1868
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
William R. Barry February 2, 1905
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
Walter Ray Baylies April 28, 1902
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
Albert F. Bigelow October 4, 1880 10th Norfolk
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
Stanley John Borsa
Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
Russell P. Brown August 24, 1891
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
Edward Butterworth August 14, 1908
Bartholomew John Callery Jr. March 28, 1910
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
Charles J. Campbell September 28, 1877
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875
Edmund Euplio Capodilupo July 7, 1913
Enrico Cappucci 1910
Ernest Westervelt Carman
John Henry Carroll
Daniel Casey May 7, 1890
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
James Frederick Catusi
Frank H. Chambers June 14, 1898
Perlie Dyar Chase July 31, 1905
David M. Cleary May 9, 1901
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916
Michael John Conway
Florence E. Cook July 8, 1908
Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878
George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905
Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894
Nelson B. Crosby June 20, 1871
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
Clifford Rudolph Cusson January 6, 1895
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
John Joseph Deedy September 22, 1914
Roger Dennett September 14, 1895
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
Octave O. Desmarais October 26, 1889
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890
Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896
Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
Susan Bradley Donovan October 2, 1895
Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
Clifton Emerson Dwelly January 11, 1893
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
Charles Kingsbury Endicott October 4, 1892
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
Samuel Falkof
Catherine E. Falvey November 6, 1910
John J. Falvey February 22, 1904
John R. Fausey March 19, 1870
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
Joseph P. Ferriter March 25, 1905
John Edward Flaherty December 31, 1910
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
John F. Foster
Douglass Brooks Francis
George Fuller July 24, 1893
Dana Taylor Gallup April 14, 1885
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899
John F. Gilmore December 8, 1896
Dennis P. Glynn September 29, 1906
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
George Greene March 7, 1897
Edward J. Grimley December 15, 1915
Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903
Edward Childs Hall May 12, 1870
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.
Charles Howard Haskell July 26, 1878
Lawrence Alanson Haworth May 23, 1871
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
Henry Davis Higgins February 24, 1873
Ralph H. Hill February 5, 1915
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
Frank Hathaway Horton July 15, 1874
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
I. Grafton Howes June 17, 1889
Orison Valentine Hull November 9, 1873
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
Edward A. Hutchinson Jr. December 13, 1911
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
William McEwen Hyde January 27, 1910
Harvey Iris
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905
Rudolph King November 2, 1887
Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901
John Quincy Knowles May 21, 1895
David Benjamin Lane Jr. September 6, 1906
George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909
Laurence W. Law
Walter E. Lawrence December 8, 1905
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
Louis Lobel August 10, 1911
Burton Elmer Loring
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
Edward Lysek October 18, 1911
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912
Joseph Margolis September 28, 1908
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
Thomas B. Matthews June 24, 1874
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880
Charles Joseph McCaffrey January 16, 1898
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Paul J. McCarty July 22, 1906
Elmer L. McCulloch
William P. McDermott July 4, 1870
Patrick J. McDonough April 29, 1911
Harold B. L. McIntosh November 19, 1907
Philip McMorrow
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Charles Miller January 12, 1908
Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908
Walter James Moran December 22, 1903
Timothy J. Moriarty August 6, 1909
Lester Bertram Morley April 19, 1903
Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
Michael J. Neville October 19, 1899
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
Roderick L. O'Handly
Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
George Joseph O'Shea November 16, 1899
John Thomas Padden May 6, 1903
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878
Loomis Patrick May 4, 1907
Oscar Houston Perkins January 3, 1879
Herman Peter Peterson November 21, 1890
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
Sam G. Pillsbury March 7, 1873
George Perry Ponte May 24, 1905
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895
Stuart Craig Rand June 9, 1888
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
Cornelius Edward Reddy May 27, 1910
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Gerald F. Scally July 17, 1905
Alyce Louise Schlapp November 30, 1912
William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875
A. John Serino March 13, 1906
William J. Sessions December 18, 1859
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
Charles E. Shepard September 21, 1901
Carl A. Sheridan March 24, 1908
Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
Margaret Spear August 10, 1882
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
Avery W. Steele August 1, 1907
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905
Eugene Joseph Sweeney May 11, 1886
Joseph James Sweeney January 5, 1893
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
John H. Taylor 1873
Robert Leroy Taylor November 22, 1907
Clarence F. Telford
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
James Francis Tobin May 8, 1903
Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
John E. Troy Jr.
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878
Arthur F. Verney
James T. Violette
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
George Thomas Walsh February 20, 1904
Norman F. Wellen
Joseph L. Whiton
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
Clarence A. Wood
Arthur Eaton Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1943.
  2. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1943" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1943-1944, hdl:2452/219467
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1943, hdl:2452/58055
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1944, hdl:2452/40891