1957–1958 Massachusetts legislature

160th
Massachusetts General Court
←159th 161st→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 2, 1957 (1957-01-02) – October 17, 1958 (1958-10-17) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentNewland H. Holmes
Party controlRepublican[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Newland H. Holmes
Newland Holmes, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1957-1958.

The 160th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1957 and 1958 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. Newland H. Holmes served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk
Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
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
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
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906
Arthur Joseph Mullen July 20, 1922
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
John Yerxa April 23, 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
Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897
Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891
Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
Ernest W. April January 15, 1915
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910
Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916
Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894
G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
John Brox November 16, 1910
John Patrick Buckley 1906
Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
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
Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
George Raymand Como July 3, 1912
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925
John W. Costello April 20, 1927
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916
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
Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
Richard T. Dolan January 4, 1924
James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
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
Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921
William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924
Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915
Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
George Greene March 7, 1897
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928
George W. Hill September 15, 1888
Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
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
Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
Abraham Herbert Kahalas
Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920
William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
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
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
Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
Carter Lee July 3, 1907
Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
John Joseph Linehan March 26, 1933
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
John J. Long December 10, 1927
William Longworth August 17, 1914
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
William E. Maloney June 5, 1904
Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
Rico Matera June 21, 1917
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
Manuel Victor Medeiros March 15, 1908
Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931
William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
Bessie Murray February 27, 1901
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
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
Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925
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
Frank B. Oliveira
William F. Otis October 12, 1903
Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917
Theodore Clark Perkins January 7, 1915
Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
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
John E. Riley
Harold Rosen (politician) 1906
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
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
John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909
Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
George T. Smith March 18, 1888
Leo Sontag August 16, 1922
Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924
George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924
Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
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
Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887
Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
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
Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c 1957–1958 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1957" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1957. hdl:2452/40793.
  • Teale, Edwin Way; Hosmer, Gladys E. H.; Harding, Walter; Harrison, Dorothea K.; Jackson, Randolph; Nelson, Truman; Nichols, John E.; Robbins, Roland; Schoenfeldt, Arthur; Wheeler, Ruth R.; Zahniser, Howard (1958). "A letter to the members of the Massachusetts General Court". Thoreau Society Bulletin (62): 5–6. JSTOR 23397957. ("Please support Senate Bill 280 to place Walden Pond State Reservation under control of the Department of Natural Resources...")
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1957, hdl:2452/238761
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1957, hdl:2452/46056
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1958, hdl:2452/238762
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1958, hdl:2452/40892