1977–1978 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 170thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1977 01 5 1978 07 12 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+ 169th 171st Senate 40 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 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 Kevin B. Harrington Majority leader of House of Representatives Joseph DiCarlo (1977)William Bulger (1977–1978) Vice-Leader Majority of House of Representatives Mary L. Fonseca Minority Leader John Francis Parker Vice-Leader Minority David H. Locke House 240 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 of State Senate William Q. MacLean Jr. Vice-Leader Majority of State Senate George Keverian Minority Leader of State Senate Francis W. Hatch Jr. Vice-Leader Minority of State Senate William G. Robinson right 308 1967 Kevin Brian Harrington senator Massachusetts.jpg Kevin B. Harrington Kevin Harrington, Senate president. Thomas W. McGee.jpg Thomas W. McGee Thomas McGee, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1977-1978. The 170th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1977 and 1978 during the governorship of Michael Dukakis. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House.1977–1978 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19771978bost 1977 Internet Archive 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, 1977 2452/796412 center|60px Carol Amick 5th Middlesex center|60px Chester G. Atkins April 14, 1948 center|60px John F. Aylmer January 27, 1934 center|60px Jack Backman April 26, 1922 center|60px Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927 center|60px Walter J. Boverini June 5, 1925 center|60px John A. Brennan Jr. September 19, 1945 center|60px Anna Buckley 1924 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 center|60px Edward L. Burke 1942 center|60px Gerard D'Amico July 27, 1947 center|60px Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936 center|60px Jack Fitzpatrick April 5, 1923 center|60px Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px Robert A. Hall April 15, 1946 center|60px Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 center|60px James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 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 Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934 Frank J. Mastrocola Jr. center|60px Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px Robert E. McCarthy January 12, 1940 center|60px Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 center|60px Allan R. McKinnon June 2, 1930 center|60px John Olver September 3, 1936 center|60px Bill Owens July 6, 1937 center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px Sharon Pollard September 21, 1950 center|60px George Rogers August 2, 1933 center|60px Samuel Rotondi April 22, 1946 center|60px William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927 center|60px Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942 center|60px Joseph F. Timilty October 3, 1938 center|60px Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930 center|60px B. Joseph Tully January 4, 1927 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 center|60px Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1924 Representatives portrait name date of birth district center|60px Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 13th Bristol center|60px Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942 center|60px Alfred Almeida October 5, 1931 center|60px Robert B. Ambler 1927 center|60px Carol Amick center|60px Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Dennis J. Baker August 19, 1948 center|60px Stanley E. Barnicoat February 5, 1927 center|60px Timothy A. Bassett December 16, 1947 center|60px Wilfred P. Beauchesne September 3, 1923 center|60px Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933 center|60px Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923 center|60px Walter Bickford February 16, 1942 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 center|60px Raymond J. Boffetti 1924 center|60px Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922 center|60px Royal L. Bolling Jr. May 1, 1944 center|60px George Bourque 1913 center|60px Thomas Brownell March 25, 1940 center|60px Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931 center|60px Charles J. Buffone 1919 center|60px Nicholas J. Buglione 1932 center|60px Doris Bunte July 2, 1933 center|60px Kevin M. Burke December 7, 1946 center|60px Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 center|60px John Businger February 5, 1945 center|60px Sean Francis Cahillane February 9, 1951 center|60px Jeremiah F. Cahir December 4, 1924 center|60px Howard C. Cahoon Jr. December 31, 1944 center|60px Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909 center|60px Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923 center|60px Andrew Card May 10, 1947 center|60px William A. Carey January 28, 1920 center|60px Robert F. X. Casey April 14, 1925 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 Rudy Chmura March 21, 1932 center|60px Salvatore Ciccarelli February 16, 1941 center|60px John F. Coffey February 7, 1918 center|60px Gerald M. Cohen February 22, 1934 center|60px Lincoln P. Cole Jr. September 18, 1918 center|60px Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910 center|60px James G. Collins August 2, 1946 center|60px H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929 center|60px Edward W. Connelly August 2, 1919 center|60px Michael J. Connolly April 20, 1947 center|60px John Sydney Conway August 19, 1927 center|60px Leo R. Corazzini February 17, 1930 center|60px Robert Correia January 3, 1939 center|60px Genevra Counihan December 15, 1925 center|60px Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927 center|60px James J. Craven Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Michael C. Creedon November 3, 1946 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John F. Cusack October 5, 1937 center|60px Charles Decas October 5, 1937 center|60px Richard H. Demers January 19, 1928 center|60px A. Joseph DeNucci August 30, 1939 center|60px Michael J. Devito May 30, 1949 center|60px Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912 center|60px Brian J. Donnelly March 2, 1946 center|60px Francis D. Doris 1931 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px John R. Driscoll May 9, 1924 center|60px Dennis J. Duffin November 24, 1930 center|60px Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917 center|60px Charles F. Engdahl July 3, 1921 center|60px Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Mary Fantasia October 1, 1919 center|60px John F. Farland May 14, 1940 center|60px Leo J. Farley Jr. June 1, 1926 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px Philip Frank Filosa July 6, 1948 center|60px John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938 center|60px Richard F. Finnigan September 27, 1936 center|60px Kevin W. Fitzgerald 1950 center|60px Mark Fitzsimmons March 15, 1951 center|60px Charles Flaherty October 13, 1938 center|60px Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936 center|60px Raymond Flynn July 22, 1939 center|60px Bernard D. Flynn April 11, 1945 center|60px Peter Y. Flynn 1940 center|60px William J. Flynn Jr. 1933 center|60px Barney Frank March 31, 1940 center|60px Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921 center|60px James J. Gaffney III December 20, 1942 center|60px Anthony Michael Gallugi May 16, 1948 center|60px William F. Galvin September 17, 1950 center|60px John B. Galvin February 3, 1930 center|60px Ann Gannett November 7, 1916 center|60px Henry S. Gillet Jr. September 13, 1944 center|60px Robert W. Gillette September 1, 1934 center|60px Mary Goode July 2, 1927 center|60px Paul M. Goulston August 1, 1932 center|60px Roger R. Goyette January 22, 1925 center|60px Saundra Graham September 5, 1941 center|60px John Granara January 23, 1943 center|60px Barbara Gray October 11, 1926 center|60px Henry Grenier December 9, 1924 center|60px James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911 center|60px Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 center|60px Peter F. Harrington February 12, 1936 center|60px Norris W. Harris March 16, 1915 center|60px Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925 center|60px Jonathan Healy October 10, 1945 center|60px Joseph N. Hermann June 8, 1924 center|60px Iris Holland September 30, 1920 center|60px Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939 center|60px Philip W. Johnston July 21, 1944 center|60px Raymond A. Jordan Jr. May 5, 1943 center|60px Dennis J. Kearney September 25, 1949 center|60px Bill Keating September 6, 1952 center|60px James A. Keefe Jr. center|60px Richard Kendall August 21, 1934 center|60px Robert B. Kennedy February 6, 1940 center|60px George Keverian June 3, 1931 center|60px Arthur M. Khoury February 5, 1940 center|60px John G. King November 30, 1942 center|60px Mel King October 20, 1928 center|60px Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 center|60px Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927 center|60px Nickolas Lambros January 9, 1933 center|60px David Lane July 6, 1927 center|60px Donat J. Laplante August 12, 1913 center|60px Francis C. Lapointe January 13, 1939 center|60px Robert F. Larkin Jr. May 29, 1955 center|60px Mark E. Lawton July 26, 1949 center|60px Edward LeLacheur June 1, 1925 center|60px Kenneth M. Lemanski January 27, 1954 Paula Lewellen center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px Leon Lombardi April 16, 1949 center|60px Michael J. Lombardi May 27, 1917 center|60px Charles W. Long August 14, 1940 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px Thomas D. Lopes September 7, 1942 center|60px John Loring 1926 center|60px Edwin C. Lucey March 18, 1932 center|60px Thomas R. Lussier April 5, 1957 center|60px Thomas K. Lynch April 30, 1946 center|60px Garreth J. Lynch March 13, 1943 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 center|60px Joseph T. Maguire June 10, 1926 center|60px Thomas H. D. Mahoney November 4, 1913 center|60px M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924 center|60px Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 center|60px Angelo Marotta October 16, 1937 center|60px Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926 center|60px Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932 center|60px Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941 center|60px Terrence P. McCarthy August 12, 1941 center|60px Peter McDowell June 5, 1938 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 Bruce J. McLaughlin February 2, 1935 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 Paul E. Means June 18, 1945 center|60px John F. Melia June 5, 1915 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 David J. Mofenson February 7, 1943 center|60px Richard T. Moore August 7, 1943 center|60px Paul F. X. Moriarty August 18, 1929 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 William P. Nagle Jr. June 10, 1951 center|60px Robert L. Nardone September 13, 1953 center|60px Andrew Natsios September 22, 1949 center|60px Joseph M. Navin May 19, 1946 center|60px Lou Nickinello September 8, 1940 center|60px Elaine Noble January 22, 1944 center|60px James R. Nolen April 17, 1933 center|60px Nils L. Nordberg November 6, 1934 center|60px Thomas C. Norton December 11, 1934 center|60px O. Roland Orlandi March 25, 1936 center|60px Nicholas Paleologos March 9, 1953 center|60px Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 center|60px Felix Perrault October 27, 1915 center|60px John B. Perry February 15, 1935 center|60px Robert G. Phelan March 19, 1933 center|60px William A. Pickett June 10, 1935 center|60px Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915 center|60px Ronald Anthony Pina August 11, 1944 center|60px Lois Pines August 16, 1940 center|60px Vincent J. Piro 1931 center|60px Kevin Poirier July 7, 1940 center|60px Daniel F. Pokaski June 26, 1949 center|60px Manuel Raposa Jr. May 13, 1915 center|60px Michael J. Rea Jr. July 23, 1940 center|60px William G. Robinson March 10, 1926 center|60px Richard P. Roche February 15, 1952 center|60px A. David Rodham November 26, 1938 center|60px Andrew J. Rogers Jr. May 6, 1944 center|60px Francis E. Rogers July 18, 1932 center|60px Richard A. Rogers July 8, 1930 center|60px Robert J. Rohan August 15, 1921 center|60px J. Michael Ruane December 10, 1927 center|60px John Rucho November 22, 1922 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 Joseph Scelsi June 4, 1915 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px James W. Segel June 29, 1945 center|60px Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923 center|60px Emanuel Serra June 12, 1945 center|60px William G. Shaughnessy July 10, 1918 center|60px C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916 center|60px Philip L. Shea October 19, 1941 center|60px James A. Sheets June 3, 1935 center|60px Edward Shortell August 21, 1916 center|60px Richard R. Silva March 13, 1922 center|60px Thomas G. Simons January 21, 1942 center|60px James E. Smith September 3, 1946 center|60px George R. Sprague June 19, 1938 center|60px William F. Stanley June 25, 1937 center|60px Caroline Stouffer April 5, 1933 center|60px Gregory W. Sullivan January 29, 1952 center|60px Karen Swanson January 15, 1954 center|60px David J. Swartz April 2, 1931 center|60px Royall H. Switzler September 27, 1938 center|60px Robert S. Teahan March 1, 1921 center|60px Theodore J. Trudeau January 22, 1916 center|60px Peter A. Velis October 8, 1942 center|60px Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920 center|60px Carlton M. Viveiros December 4, 1938 center|60px Richard Voke December 2, 1947 center|60px Max Volterra January 7, 1936 center|60px Henry A. Walker December 7, 1919 center|60px Richard L. Walsh July 26, 1948 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 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 A. James Whitney April 15, 1943 center|60px Francis H. Woodward March 17, 1939 See also 95th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1977 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40802 Court Massachusetts General External links Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1976/year_to:1976/office_id:9/stage:General 1976 State Senate General Election Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1976/year_to:1976/office_id:8/stage:General 1976 State Representative General Election 2452/429135 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1977 Massachusetts General Court 2452/26516 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1977 2452/335751 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1978 Massachusetts General Court 2452/3382 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1978 https://student.nesl.edu/research/Legislative_Council.cfm Commonwealth of Massachusetts Reports of the Legislative Research Council New England School of Law (1964-1994) Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1977 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1978 in Massachusetts