1961–1962 Massachusetts legislature

162nd
Massachusetts General Court
←161st 163rd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1960
Senate
Members40
PresidentJohn E. Powers
Majority LeaderMaurice A. Donahue
Minority LeaderFred I. Lamson
Party controlDemocrat (25 D, 14 R)[1][2]
House
Members240
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Majority LeaderCornelius F. Kiernan
Majority WhipWilliam H. Finnegan
Minority LeaderFrank S. Giles
Minority WhipJohn A. Armstrong
Party controlDemocrat (156 D, 83 R)[1][3]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1961 (1961-01-04) – May 27, 1961 (1961-05-27)
2ndJanuary 3, 1962 (1962-01-03) – July 27, 1962 (1962-07-27)[4]
John E. Powers
John Powers, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1961.

The 162nd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1961 and 1962 during the governorship of John Volpe. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.[5] In 1962, the General Court expanded the University of Massachusetts outside of the Amherst campus with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.[6][7]

Senators

portrait name [8] date of birth [9] district [9]
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk
Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916
Thomas S. Burgin
James F. Burke September 7, 1914
Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
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
Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
James J. Long November 15, 1913
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 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
Antone L. Silva
Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
George A. Sullivan Jr.
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives

portrait name [8] date of birth [9] district [9]
Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable
George L. Allen
Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891
Julius Ansel April 27, 1908
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
John T. Berry November 20, 1924
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
Royal L. Bolling Sr.[10] June 19, 1920
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
Lawrence F. Bretta January 12, 1928
Alfred Sylvester Brothers[10] November 4, 1919
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
John Brox November 16, 1910
John Patrick Buckley 1906
Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926
William Bulger February 2, 1934
George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907
Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
Patrick Edmund Callaghan August 13, 1895
Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
John J. Campbell August 26, 1922
Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905
Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899
William A. Carey January 28, 1920
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
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916
John George Clark February 26, 1902
Peter Joseph Cloherty February 19, 1923
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
James C. Corcoran Jr. September 22, 1926
Beatrice Corliss October 21, 1910
Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925
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
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
Michael A. D'Avolio
Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924
John Davoren July 27, 1915
James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
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
Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
James V. Duffy March 14, 1920
John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
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
John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918
Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924
Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 20, 1917
Bernard J. Pat Foley July 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
Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911
Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
Robert C. Hahn March 25, 1921
David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
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
Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928
Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
Albert Kramer July 4, 1933
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917
John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912
James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
John J. Long December 10, 1927
William Longworth August 17, 1914
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927
Rico Matera June 21, 1917
George C. McDermott
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931
William James Moran June 24, 1921
Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921
Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902
William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922
Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
Lorenz Francis Muther Jr. September 26, 1908
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
James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919
John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937
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
William F. Otis October 12, 1903
Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
Francis Whitney Perry April 21, 1913
Vite Pigaga
Lincoln Pope Jr. May 29, 1916
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Auville Wright Putnam
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
Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933
Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
George T. Smith March 18, 1888
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
Garrett Henry Spillane Jr.
Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920
C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897
Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924
Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921
J. Robert Tickle February 27, 1918
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887
Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
Leo J. Turo December 11, 1923
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919
George B. Walsh March 21, 1907
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916
Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902
Thomas M. White
Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917
Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Directory of State Legislators: Massachusetts", Book of the States (PDF), Chicago: Council of State Governments, 1961, Supplement I, February 1961
  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. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  5. ^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  6. ^ Feldberg, Michael (2015). UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth-Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1625341693.
  7. ^ More, Ellen S. (2012). The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research. Worcester, MA: University of Massachusetts Medical School. p. 16. doi:10.13028/e2m6-hs02.
  8. ^ a b 1961-1962 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1961.
  9. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1961" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  10. ^ a b Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

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