1961–1962 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 162ndMassachusetts General Court General Court November 8, 1960 1961 01 4 1961 05 27 1962 01 3 1962 07 27 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+ 161st 163rd Senate 40 Democrat (25 D, 14 R)Book of the States Directory of State Legislators: Massachusetts 1961 Council of State Governments Chicago http://knowledgecenter.csg.org/kc/system/files/bos_1960_state_elective.pdf Supplement I, February 1961 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 John E. Powers Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue Minority Leader Fred I. Lamson House 240 Democrat (156 D, 83 R)Composition 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 John F. Thompson Majority Leader Cornelius F. Kiernan Majority Whip William H. Finnegan Minority Leader Frank S. Giles Minority Whip John A. Armstrong right 308 John E. Powers official portrait photograph, circa 1959 (3x4).jpeg John E. Powers John Powers, Senate president. 1953 John Forbes Thompson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png 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. 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+ 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.Feldberg Michael UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth-Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, Massachusetts 2015 5 978-1625341693More Ellen S. 2012 The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research Worcester, MA University of Massachusetts Medical School 16 10.13028/e2m6-hs02 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, 1961 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796327/1961-Senate-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk center|60px Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 center|60px Thomas S. Burgin center|60px James F. Burke September 7, 1914 center|60px Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902 center|60px Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 center|60px Richard Caples December 23, 1921 center|60px Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916 center|60px Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916 center|60px William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910 center|60px Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 center|60px Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 center|60px Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 center|60px John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930 center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927 center|60px Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 center|60px Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 center|60px Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 center|60px James J. Long November 15, 1913 center|60px Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894 center|60px Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 center|60px Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 center|60px Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 center|60px James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 center|60px Antone L. Silva center|60px Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909 center|60px Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909 center|60px Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 center|60px George A. Sullivan Jr. center|60px Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920 Representatives portrait name 1961-1962 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19611962bost 1961 date of birth district center|60px Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable center|60px George L. Allen center|60px Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891 center|60px Julius Ansel April 27, 1908 center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927 center|60px John T. Berry November 20, 1924 center|60px Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923 center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916 center|60px Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 center|60px Stanley Joseph Bocko August 26, 1920 center|60px Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922 center|60px Royal L. Bolling Sr. June 19, 1920 center|60px Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 center|60px Lawrence F. Bretta January 12, 1928 center|60px Alfred Sylvester BrothersBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General November 4, 1919 center|60px John D. Brown January 30, 1900 center|60px John Brox November 16, 1910 center|60px John Patrick Buckley 1906 center|60px Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 center|60px George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907 center|60px Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931 center|60px Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 center|60px Patrick Edmund Callaghan August 13, 1895 center|60px Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 center|60px John J. Campbell August 26, 1922 center|60px Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905 center|60px Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899 center|60px William A. Carey January 28, 1920 center|60px Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 center|60px William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 center|60px Michael Catino February 21, 1904 center|60px John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 center|60px Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 center|60px John George Clark February 26, 1902 center|60px Peter Joseph Cloherty February 19, 1923 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 center|60px Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934 center|60px Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 center|60px James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 center|60px Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 center|60px William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 center|60px James C. Corcoran Jr. September 22, 1926 center|60px Beatrice Corliss October 21, 1910 center|60px Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925 center|60px Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 center|60px Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924 center|60px Robert Q. Crane March 21, 1926 center|60px James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908 center|60px John J. Cronin August 1, 1910 center|60px Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px Michael A. D'Avolio center|60px Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924 center|60px John Davoren July 27, 1915 center|60px James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 center|60px Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 center|60px Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 center|60px Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928 center|60px John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 center|60px Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 center|60px Henry C. Donnelly April 13, 1922 center|60px Thomas Francis Donohue December 6, 1902 center|60px Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 center|60px James V. Duffy March 14, 1920 center|60px John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 center|60px Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 center|60px Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921 center|60px A. Richard Ferullo December 29, 1929 center|60px Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr. December 13, 1918 center|60px William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 center|60px John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918 center|60px Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903 center|60px Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924 center|60px Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 20, 1917 center|60px Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917 center|60px Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 center|60px John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922 center|60px Joseph Garczynski, Jr February 14, 1927 center|60px Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 center|60px Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911 center|60px Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912 center|60px Robert C. Hahn March 25, 1921 center|60px David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890 center|60px Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 center|60px Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908 center|60px Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 center|60px J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 center|60px Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 center|60px Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 center|60px John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 center|60px Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926 center|60px Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 center|60px William F. Joyce July 26, 1909 center|60px Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920 center|60px William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921 center|60px James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 center|60px James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 center|60px Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 center|60px George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929 center|60px John P. Kennedy February 24, 1918 center|60px Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 center|60px Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 center|60px William James Kingston October 17, 1909 center|60px Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928 center|60px Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 center|60px Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 center|60px Albert Kramer July 4, 1933 center|60px Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 center|60px Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917 center|60px John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912 center|60px James R. Lawton October 20, 1925 center|60px Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901 center|60px Peter J. Levanti March 19, 1903 center|60px David H. Locke August 4, 1927 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 center|60px J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 center|60px Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 center|60px Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927 center|60px Rico Matera June 21, 1917 center|60px George C. McDermott center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918 center|60px John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 center|60px Allan McGuane July 26, 1928 center|60px James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930 center|60px George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924 center|60px Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 center|60px Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931 center|60px William James Moran June 24, 1921 center|60px Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921 center|60px Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902 center|60px William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904 center|60px Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 center|60px James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922 center|60px Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932 center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Lorenz Francis Muther Jr. September 26, 1908 5th Middlesex center|60px John J. Navin September 9, 1915 center|60px Michael Anthony Nazzaro Jr. June 2, 1925 center|60px Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex center|60px Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911 center|60px James R. Nolen April 17, 1933 center|60px Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922 center|60px James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919 center|60px John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937 center|60px Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 center|60px David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 center|60px George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 center|60px Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914 center|60px George J. O'Shea Jr. January 5, 1929 center|60px William F. Otis October 12, 1903 center|60px Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921 center|60px Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 center|60px Francis W. Perry April 21, 1913 center|60px Vite Pigaga center|60px Lincoln Pope Jr. May 29, 1916 center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Auville Wright Putnam center|60px Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 center|60px Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 center|60px William I. Randall September 13, 1915 center|60px George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 center|60px Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920 center|60px Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 center|60px Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912 center|60px Harold Rosen (politician) 1906 center|60px Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906 center|60px Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917 center|60px Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 center|60px Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 center|60px Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910 center|60px Vincent Joseph Shanley January 27, 1916 center|60px Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927 center|60px Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933 center|60px Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914 center|60px Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 center|60px George T. Smith March 18, 1888 center|60px Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 center|60px George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 center|60px George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 center|60px Garrett Henry Spillane Jr. center|60px Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920 center|60px C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 center|60px Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924 center|60px Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914 center|60px Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 center|60px John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 center|60px George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921 center|60px J. Robert Tickle February 27, 1918 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887 center|60px Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 center|60px Leo J. Turo December 11, 1923 center|60px John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 center|60px Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 center|60px Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936 center|60px Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919 center|60px George B. Walsh March 21, 1907 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 center|60px Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902 center|60px Thomas M. White center|60px Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 center|60px John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906 center|60px Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 center|60px Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 center|60px Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 center|60px Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904 See also 1962 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 87th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading 2452/43452 Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1960) Secretary of the Commonwealth 1961 1961 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40795 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge196162mass Court Massachusetts General William M. Bulger. While the Music Lasts: My Life in Politics. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. 0-395-72041-9. Close and Safe State Elections in Massachusetts Pertti Pesonen Midwest Journal of Political Science 7 1963 1 54–70 10.2307/2108821 2108821 External links 2452/265591 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1961 Massachusetts General Court 2452/393336 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1962 Massachusetts General Court 2452/1961 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1961 2452/2666 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1962 https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/jfks-farewell-to-massachusetts-legislature.html January 9, 1961: JFK's Farewell to Massachusetts Legislature Massmoments.org 10 January 2005 Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1961 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1962 in Massachusetts