1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature

154th
Massachusetts General Court
←153rd 155th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1944
Senate
Members40
PresidentArthur W. Coolidge (7th Middlesex district)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerFrederick Willis (10th Essex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1945 (1945-01-03) – July 25, 1945 (1945-07-25)
2ndJanuary 2, 1946 (1946-01-02) – June 15, 1946 (1946-06-15)[3]
Arthur Coolidge
Arthur Coolidge, Senate president.
Frederick Willis
Frederick Willis, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1945.

The 154th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1945 and 1946 during the governorship of Maurice J. Tobin. Arthur W. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Frederick Willis served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

Portrait Name [5] Date of Birth [6] District [6]
John Albetski 4th Worcester
Benjamin J. Bowen January 19, 1876
Richard S. Bowers June 18, 1900
J. Elmer Callahan
Michael H. Condron
William R. Conley September 1, 1900
Arthur W. Coolidge October 13, 1881
Clifford Rudolph Cusson January 6, 1895
Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907
Burton F. Faulkner
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872
Robert L. Lee
Stephen F. Loughlin
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888
William E. Nolen
Willard A. Ormsbee
James Austin Peckham
Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887
Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902
George W. Stanton
Charles F. Sullivan October 10, 1904
Leo J. Sullivan December 8, 1905
Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives

Portrait Name [5] Date of Birth [6] District [6]
Wilfred J. Achin May 12, 1891 3rd Berkshire
Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
Charles Homer Barrett June 23, 1868
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
William R. Barry February 2, 1905
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
Norman S. Baxter
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
C. Ray Bennett
G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906
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
Russell P. Brown August 24, 1891
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
Edward Butterworth August 14, 1908
Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914
Bartholomew John Callery Jr. March 28, 1910
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
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
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
Daniel Casey May 7, 1890
James Frederick Catusi
Perlie Dyar Chase July 31, 1905
David M. Cleary May 9, 1901
Thomas Francis Coady 1878
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
Joseph T. Conley
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
Patrick Francis Cronin
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
Adin Willard Custance
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 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
Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
Howard Bernard Driscoll
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
Clifton Emerson Dwelly January 11, 1893
Louis Henry Elliot
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
Charles Kingsbury Endicott October 4, 1892
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
John R. Fausey March 19, 1870
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
Joseph P. Ferriter March 25, 1905
Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889
John Edward Flaherty December 31, 1910
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
John F. Foster
George Fuller July 24, 1893
John L. Gallant
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899
Dennis P. Glynn September 29, 1906
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
George Greene March 7, 1897
Francis G. Gregory
Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903
James Edward Hannon
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
Joseph B. Harrington
Frederick Roy Harvey Jr. 11th Suffolk
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
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893
Edward A. Hutchinson Jr. December 13, 1911
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
Henderson Inches
Harvey Iris
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
Walter Francis Kane
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Clarence Karelitz
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909
Laurence W. Law
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
Louis Lobel August 10, 1911
Burton Elmer Loring
Jeremiah G. Lucey
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
George Francis Martin Jr.
Francis V. Matera
Thomas B. Matthews June 24, 1874
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
Edward A. McCarthy
Frank D. McCarthy
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Elmer L. McCulloch
James Patrick McDevitt
Patrick J. McDonough April 29, 1911
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
Timothy J. McInerney
Samuel D. McLeod
Philip McMorrow
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Charles Miller January 12, 1908
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
Henry Thomas Murray Jr.
George Burkman Norton
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895
George Joseph O'Shea November 16, 1899
Frank B. Oliveira
John Thomas Padden May 6, 1903
Eben Parsons
Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878
Oscar Houston Perkins January 3, 1879
Herman Peter Peterson November 21, 1890
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
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
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
John Joseph Riordan
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Francis Edward Ryan October 6, 1895
E. Guy Sawyer
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
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
Margaret Spear August 10, 1882
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904
James E. Sullivan
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
Maurice Henry Sullivan
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
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
Harold Edward Tivey
Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
William Francis Troy
Talbot T. Tweedy
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
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
John Cummings Webster Jr.
Norman F. Wellen
William Emmet White June 1, 1900
John S. Whittemore
John Cyril Wickes
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Clarence A. Wood
Arthur Eaton Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

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. ^ a b Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove. 1945-1946 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1945" (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 (1944), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1945, hdl:2452/43436
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1945). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40787.
  • "Political Pot Starts Boiling as Legislature Opens Today", Daily Boston Globe, January 2, 1946
  • "At the State House", Daily Boston Globe, January 4, 1946
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