1983–1984 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 173rdMassachusetts General Court General Court November 2, 1982 1983 01 5 1985 01 1 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge00mass2/page/348/mode/1up 2009 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Length of Legislative Sessions 348+ 172nd 174th Senate 40 Democrat Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606063917/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-senate-0/download President William Bulger Majority Leader Daniel J. Foley Majority Whip Mary L. Fonseca Minority Leader John Francis Parker Minority Whip David H. Locke House 160 DemocratComposition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives Mass.gov June 6, 2020 Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library https://www.mass.gov/service-details/resources-on-massachusetts-political-figures-in-the-state-library https://web.archive.org/web/20200606064043/https://www.mass.gov/doc/composition-of-the-massachusetts-state-house-of-representatives-0/download Speaker Thomas W. McGee Majority Leader George Keverian Majority Whip John E. Murphy Jr. Minority Leader William G. Robinson Minority Whip Iris Holland right 308 Senate President William M. Bulger (9519685196).jpg William Bulger William Bulger, Senate president. Thomas W. McGee.jpg Thomas McGee Thomas McGee, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1983. The 173rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1983 and 1984 during the governorship of Michael Dukakis. William Bulger served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House. https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge200506mass/page/338/mode/2up 2005 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court Organization of the Legislature Since 1780 338+ Senators portrait name date of birth district Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1983 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796440/1983-Senate-02-Appendix.pdf center|60px Carol Amick 5th Middlesex center|60px Chester G. Atkins April 14, 1948 center|60px George Bachrach December 2, 1951 center|60px Jack Backman April 26, 1922 center|60px Frederick Berry December 20, 1949 center|60px Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933 center|60px Royal L. Bolling June 19, 1920 center|60px Walter J. Boverini June 5, 1925 center|60px John A. Brennan Jr. September 19, 1945 center|60px Anna Buckley 1924 center|60px Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 John P. Burke December 2, 1954 center|60px Edward L. Burke 1942 center|60px Nicholas Costello 1935 center|60px Gerard D'Amico July 27, 1947 center|60px Paul Doane March 26, 1943 center|60px Francis D. Doris 1931 center|60px Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px Paul D. Harold September 5, 1948 center|60px Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928 center|60px Richard Arnold Kraus 1937 center|60px Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr. September 3, 1934 center|60px David H. Locke August 4, 1927 center|60px Michael LoPresti Jr. April 30, 1947 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 center|60px Patricia McGovern August 2, 1941 center|60px Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 center|60px Allan R. McKinnon June 2, 1930 center|60px Linda Melconian center|60px John Olver September 3, 1936 center|60px Mary L. Padula center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px Sharon Pollard September 21, 1950 center|60px Martin Thomas Reilly September 1, 1956 center|60px Philip L. Shea October 19, 1941 center|60px Joseph F. Timilty (state senator) October 3, 1938 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Peter Colbourne Webber May 12, 1952 center|60px Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 Representatives portrait name 1983–1984 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19831984bost 1983 date of birth district center|60px Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942 3rd Bristol center|60px Frances Alexander (politician) June 16, 1919 center|60px Lawrence R. Alexander 1950 center|60px Robert B. Ambler 1927 center|60px Steven Angelo June 8, 1952 center|60px Michael J. Barrett June 27, 1948 center|60px Timothy A. Bassett December 16, 1947 center|60px William D. Benson 1948 center|60px Walter Bickford February 16, 1942 center|60px Kevin Blanchette 1954 center|60px Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922 center|60px Royal L. Bolling Jr. May 1, 1944 center|60px George Bourque 1913 center|60px James T. Brett December 22, 1949 center|60px Thomas Brownell March 25, 1940 center|60px Nicholas J. Buglione 1932 center|60px Doris Bunte July 2, 1933 center|60px John Businger February 5, 1945 center|60px Jeremiah F. Cahir December 4, 1924 center|60px Howard C. Cahoon Jr. December 31, 1944 center|60px Ellen Canavan December 26, 1941 center|60px William A. Carey January 28, 1920 center|60px Paul Caron November 15, 1955 center|60px Angelo R. Cataldo November 12, 1917 center|60px Paul Cellucci April 24, 1948 center|60px Robert A. Cerasoli July 12, 1947 center|60px Allan R. Chiocca May 3, 1954 center|60px Salvatore Ciccarelli February 16, 1941 center|60px Forrester Clark November 30, 1934 center|60px David B. Cohen (mayor) September 2, 1947 center|60px Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910 center|60px James G. Collins August 2, 1946 center|60px Joseph M. Connolly January 5, 1924 center|60px William Constantino Jr. May 27, 1944 center|60px Leo R. Corazzini February 17, 1930 center|60px Robert Correia January 3, 1939 center|60px Frank N. Costa October 25, 1945 center|60px Nicholas Costello 1935 center|60px John F. Cox July 27, 1955 center|60px James J. Craven Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Michael C. Creedon November 3, 1946 center|60px John F. Cusack October 5, 1937 center|60px Charles Decas October 5, 1937 center|60px Walter DeFilippi October 3, 1926 center|60px A. Joseph DeNucci August 30, 1939 center|60px Salvatore DiMasi August 11, 1945 center|60px Stephen W. Doran March 26, 1956 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px John R. Driscoll May 9, 1924 center|60px Frank Emilio (politician) August 31, 1935 center|60px Thomas Finneran January 2, 1950 center|60px Kevin W. Fitzgerald 1950 center|60px Charles Flaherty (politician) October 13, 1938 center|60px Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936 center|60px John H. Flood June 24, 1939 center|60px William J. Flynn Jr. 1933 center|60px Peter Forman April 28, 1958 center|60px Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921 center|60px Thomas M. Gallagher October 26, 1948 center|60px William F. Galvin September 17, 1950 center|60px Mary Jane Gibson February 7, 1933 center|60px William Glodis April 6, 1934 center|60px Roger R. Goyette January 22, 1925 center|60px Saundra Graham September 5, 1941 center|60px Barbara Gray October 11, 1926 center|60px John Gray January 12, 1956 center|60px Haden Greenhalgh January 16, 1931 center|60px Henry Grenier December 9, 1924 center|60px Sherwood Guernsey 1946 center|60px Robert Emmet Hayes 1951 center|60px Jonathan Healy October 10, 1945 center|60px Joseph N. Hermann June 8, 1924 center|60px Lucile Hicks May 11, 1938 center|60px Barbara Hildt April 13, 1946 center|60px Christopher Hodgkins August 24, 1957 center|60px Iris Holland September 30, 1920 center|60px Robert L. Howarth 1942 center|60px Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939 center|60px Frank Hynes December 23, 1940 center|60px Robert F. Jakubowicz 1932 center|60px Philip W. Johnston July 21, 1944 center|60px Raymond A. Jordan Jr. May 5, 1943 center|60px Stephen Karol 1948 center|60px Bill Keating (politician) September 6, 1952 center|60px Marie-Louise Kehoe December 12, 1928 center|60px Thomas P. Kennedy August 15, 1951 center|60px George Keverian June 3, 1931 center|60px Paul Kollios February 24, 1936 center|60px Denis Lawrence 1940 center|60px Mark E. Lawton July 26, 1949 center|60px Edward LeLacheur June 1, 1925 center|60px Kenneth M. Lemanski January 27, 1954 center|60px John Loring 1926 center|60px Thomas R. Lussier April 5, 1957 center|60px Thomas K. Lynch April 30, 1946 center|60px John MacGovern July 14, 1951 center|60px Charles Mann April 27, 1935 center|60px M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924 center|60px Francis Mara 1950 center|60px Angelo Marotta October 16, 1937 center|60px Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 center|60px Michael J. McGlynn April 23, 1953 center|60px Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 center|60px Mary Jane McKenna October 23, 1939 center|60px Charles F. McNally April 3, 1929 center|60px John C. McNeil June 8, 1945 center|60px Robert D. McNeil December 16, 1930 center|60px Joan Menard September 6, 1935 center|60px Elizabeth Metayer August 12, 1911 center|60px Jim Miceli March 25, 1935 center|60px Alfred A. Minahan Jr. September 14, 1953 center|60px Richard T. Moore August 7, 1943 center|60px William E. Moriarty October 4, 1923 center|60px Michael W. Morrissey August 2, 1954 center|60px William D. Mullins August 13, 1931 center|60px John E. Murphy Jr. April 3, 1943 center|60px Mary Jeanette Murray December 24, 1924 center|60px Eleanor Myerson May 9, 1922 center|60px William P. Nagle Jr. June 10, 1951 center|60px Andrew Natsios September 22, 1949 center|60px Joseph M. Navin May 19, 1946 center|60px David Robert Nelson center|60px Thomas C. Norton December 11, 1934 center|60px Nicholas Paleologos March 9, 1953 center|60px Marie Parente May 22, 1928 center|60px Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915 center|60px Steven Pierce October 10, 1949 center|60px Vincent J. Piro 1931 center|60px Kevin Poirier July 7, 1940 center|60px Michael J. Rea Jr. July 23, 1940 center|60px William G. Robinson March 10, 1926 center|60px Andrew J. Rogers Jr. May 6, 1944 center|60px Robert J. Rohan August 15, 1921 center|60px Susan Rourke March 7, 1954 center|60px Richard J. Rouse March 30, 1954 center|60px J. Michael Ruane December 10, 1927 center|60px Byron Rushing July 29, 1942 center|60px Alfred E. Saggese Jr. November 21, 1946 center|60px Sherman Saltmarsh April 27, 1929 center|60px Angelo Scaccia September 29, 1942 center|60px Susan Schur February 27, 1940 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px Emanuel Serra June 12, 1945 center|60px Richard R. Silva March 13, 1922 center|60px Walter Silveira Jr. June 15, 1934 center|60px Charles Silvia February 18, 1945 center|60px Theodore C. Speliotis August 20, 1953 center|60px Chester Suhoski March 26, 1941 center|60px Gregory W. Sullivan January 29, 1952 center|60px Royall H. Switzler September 27, 1938 center|60px Roger Tougas January 9, 1927 center|60px Marilyn Travinski June 1, 1947 center|60px Philip Travis July 2, 1940 center|60px Peter Trombley September 16, 1948 center|60px Susan Tucker (politician) November 7, 1944 center|60px Thomas J. Vallely January 6, 1950 center|60px Peter A. Vellucci 1942 center|60px William B. Vernon April 17, 1951 center|60px Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920 center|60px Richard Voke December 2, 1947 center|60px Michael P. Walsh July 1, 1956 center|60px Bruce E. Wetherbee September 1, 1950 center|60px W. Paul White July 7, 1945 center|60px Thomas P. White August 27, 1950 center|60px Francis H. Woodward March 17, 1939 See also 98th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 2452/43474 Massachusetts Election Statistics (1982) 1982 Secretary of the Commonwealth Division Massachusetts Elections 1983 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40805 Court Massachusetts General External links https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1982/year_to:1983/office_id:9 State Senate Elections: 1982-1983 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division Sec.state.ma.us https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1982/year_to:1983/office_id:8 State Representative Elections: 1982-1983 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division Sec.state.ma.us 2452/365959 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1983 Massachusetts General Court 2452/365961 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1984 Massachusetts General Court 2452/32847 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1983 2452/3568 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1984 https://student.nesl.edu/research/Legislative_Council.cfm Commonwealth of Massachusetts Reports of the Legislative Research Council New England School of Law June 10, 2020 August 20, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200820092917/https://student.nesl.edu/research/Legislative_Council.cfm dead (1964-1994) Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1983 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1984 in Massachusetts