1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 158thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 4, 1952 1953 01 7 1953 07 4 1954 01 6 1954 06 11+ 1-day extra session 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+ 157th 159th Senate 40 Republican 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 Richard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex) House 240 RepublicanComposition 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 Charles Gibbons (22nd Middlesex) right 308 1953 Richard Furbush senator Massachusetts.jpg Richard Furbush Richard Furbush, Senate president. 1953 Charles Gibbons Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Charles Gibbons Charles Gibbons, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1953. The 158th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1953 and 1954 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Charles Gibbons 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 House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1953 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796269/1953-House-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px Paul Achin 1st Middlesex center|60px John Adams May 30, 1915 center|60px Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 center|60px Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887 center|60px Alfred B. Cenedella Jr. center|60px Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 center|60px Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921 center|60px James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 center|60px Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924 center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 center|60px Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 center|60px William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 center|60px Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 center|60px Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 center|60px Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 center|60px Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 center|60px Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 center|60px William Joseph Keenan center|60px Hastings Keith November 22, 1915 center|60px Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 center|60px Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 center|60px Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894 center|60px Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 center|60px Daniel Francis O'Brien center|60px Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 center|60px Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920 center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 center|60px Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926 center|60px Daniel Rudsten center|60px Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909 center|60px Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 center|60px Richard Treadway June 5, 1913 Representatives portrait name 1953-1954 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19531954bost Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove date of birth district center|60px Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester center|60px Julius Ansel April 27, 1908 center|60px Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893 center|60px Ernest W. April January 15, 1915 center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Charles J. Artesani center|60px John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 center|60px John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911 center|60px Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 center|60px Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878 center|60px Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 center|60px James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 center|60px Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910 center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 center|60px Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 center|60px Samuel Joseph Boudreau center|60px Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901 center|60px Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 center|60px Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900 center|60px Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917 center|60px Jeremiah Francis Brennan center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px William Joseph Brickley Jr. center|60px Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890 center|60px John D. Brown January 30, 1900 center|60px John Brox November 16, 1910 center|60px James A. Burke March 30, 1910 center|60px Pasquale Caggiano August 31, 1909 center|60px Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 center|60px Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 center|60px Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 center|60px Richard Caples December 23, 1921 center|60px Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920 center|60px Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891 center|60px Francis X. Casey center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 center|60px Philip Aloysius Chapman center|60px Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 center|60px Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 center|60px J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894 center|60px Harry Coltun center|60px George Raymand Como July 3, 1912 center|60px James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 center|60px Joseph T. Conley center|60px William P. Constantino August 19, 1911 center|60px John W. Costello April 20, 1927 center|60px Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 center|60px William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 center|60px John Francis Cremens center|60px Gladys Gertrude Crockett December 1, 1895 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John A. Davis May 9, 1912 center|60px Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910 center|60px Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921 center|60px Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 center|60px Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 center|60px William P. Di Vitto center|60px Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919 center|60px John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 center|60px James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919 center|60px Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 center|60px Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 center|60px Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 center|60px Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 center|60px John Joseph Dwyer center|60px Arthur H. Dykeman center|60px Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 center|60px Anthony J. Farin center|60px C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916 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 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 center|60px Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903 center|60px Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 center|60px Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 center|60px John L. Gallant center|60px Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915 center|60px Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 center|60px Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 center|60px Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 center|60px C. Henry Glovsky March 26, 1918 center|60px William A. Glynn center|60px Francis John Good center|60px Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912 center|60px Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 center|60px Joseph Patrick Graham August 22, 1902 center|60px Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 center|60px George Greene March 7, 1897 center|60px Francis Appleton Harding 1908 center|60px Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927 center|60px Christian A. Herter Jr. January 29, 1919 center|60px Paul L. Hinckley August 16, 1910 center|60px James Alan Hodder center|60px Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907 center|60px Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892 center|60px Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 center|60px Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 center|60px J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 center|60px Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 center|60px Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917 center|60px Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 center|60px Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 center|60px Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913 center|60px Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 center|60px John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 center|60px Herbert L. Jackson center|60px William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904 center|60px Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885 center|60px Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897 center|60px Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911 center|60px Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 center|60px Abraham Herbert Kahalas center|60px Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 center|60px Henry E. Keenan center|60px William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921 center|60px Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912 center|60px James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 center|60px Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 center|60px Thomas E. Key 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 William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897 center|60px Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924 center|60px Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 center|60px James R. Lawton October 20, 1925 center|60px Carter Lee July 3, 1907 center|60px Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px Raymond Joseph Lord center|60px Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 center|60px Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921 center|60px Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 center|60px Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px John P. McMorrow September 19, 1926 center|60px Augustus Gardner Means June 8, 1925 center|60px Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908 center|60px Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 center|60px William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904 center|60px Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 center|60px Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899 center|60px John E. Murphy February 13, 1900 center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 center|60px Chester W. Nelson center|60px Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex center|60px Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911 center|60px Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922 center|60px William F. Nourse September 12, 1922 center|60px James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 center|60px William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889 center|60px David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 center|60px Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925 center|60px John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917 center|60px James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922 center|60px Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914 center|60px John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916 center|60px Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921 center|60px Frank B. Oliveira center|60px Anthony Parenzo center|60px Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 center|60px Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917 center|60px Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917 center|60px Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913 center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 center|60px Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907 center|60px Harold Putnam February 15, 1916 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 Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899 center|60px William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 center|60px Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896 center|60px Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887 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 Edwin Andrews Seibel center|60px John M. Shea December 8, 1902 center|60px Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897 center|60px Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909 center|60px Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 center|60px J. Roger Sisson August 14, 1921 center|60px Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 center|60px Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918 center|60px George T. Smith March 18, 1888 center|60px Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890 center|60px H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914 center|60px Leo Sontag August 16, 1922 center|60px Franklin Sturgis Jr. October 18, 1883 center|60px William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 center|60px Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914 center|60px Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 center|60px Clarence F. Telford center|60px John F. Thompson May 20, 1920 center|60px Irene Thresher July 6, 1900 center|60px Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 center|60px Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 center|60px Eino Oliver Toko center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Philip Anthony Tracy center|60px Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 center|60px John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 center|60px Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 center|60px Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 center|60px Martha Ware October 6, 1917 center|60px Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905 center|60px Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 center|60px Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883 David B. Williams January 7, 1919 center|60px Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918 center|60px Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 center|60px Albert E. Wood center|60px Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 center|60px Marcus Newell Wright center|60px John Yerxa April 23, 1904 center|60px Arthur Eaton Young center|60px John F. Zamparelli December 13, 1922 center|60px Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904 See also 1954 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 83rd United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading State Election Votes for: State Senator https://archive.org/details/electionstatisti1952mass/page/370/mode/2up 370–381 Election Statistics, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1952 Secretary of the Commonwealth 2452/43444 State Election Votes for: Representatives in the General Court https://archive.org/details/electionstatisti1952mass/page/381/mode/2up 381–418 Election Statistics, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1952 Secretary of the Commonwealth Wide Reforms Set in Massachusetts; Legislature Closes After Voting Major Portions of Overhaul Recommended by Herter New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1953/07/05/archives/wide-reforms-set-in-massachusetts-legislature-closes-after-voting.html July 5, 1953 John H. Fenton 1953 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40791 Executive Veto in Massachusetts, 1947-1960 Joseph F. Zimmerman Social Science 37 1962 3 162–168 41884988 External links 2452/238757 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1953 Massachusetts General Court 2452/238758 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1954 Massachusetts General Court 2452/50976 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1953 2452/50977 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1954 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1953 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1954 in Massachusetts