1955–1956 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 159thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1955 01 5 1956 10 6 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+ 158th 160th 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 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 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 Michael F. Skerry right 308 1953 Richard Furbush senator Massachusetts.jpg Richard I. Furbush Richard Furbush, Senate president. 1945 Michael Skerry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Michael F. Skerry Michael Skerry, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1955-1956. The 159th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1955 and 1956 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Michael F. Skerry served as speaker of the House.1955–1956 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19551956bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1955 Internet Archive The Massachusetts Legislative Research Bureau began operating in 1955. https://student.nesl.edu/research/Legislative_Council/Index_1989.pdf Index of Special Reports Authorized by the General Court 1900-1988 6th 1989 A Word About the Research Bureau Massachusetts Legislative Research Bureau 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, 1955 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796276/1955-Senate-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px John Adams May 30, 1915 4th Essex center|60px John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 center|60px Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 center|60px Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 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 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 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 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 center|60px Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 center|60px C. Henry Glovsky March 26, 1918 center|60px Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 center|60px Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 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 Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 center|60px Hastings Keith November 22, 1915 center|60px Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 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 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906 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 Albert S. Previte Jr. September 26, 1928 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 Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px Patrick John F. Walsh Jr. July 2, 1915 Representatives portrait name 1955–1956 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19551956bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1955 Internet Archive date of birth district center|60px Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester center|60px Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897 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 Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878 center|60px Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 center|60px Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 center|60px James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910 center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 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 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894 center|60px G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 center|60px Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 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 John Patrick Buckley 1906 center|60px William Francis Burke February 12, 1925 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 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922 center|60px Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 center|60px Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905 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 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 center|60px John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 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 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 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 Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 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 Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908 center|60px John Francis Cremens center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John A. Davis May 9, 1912 center|60px John Davoren July 27, 1915 center|60px James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 center|60px Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910 center|60px Wilfred Adolphus Derosier March 2, 1908 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 John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925 center|60px Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 center|60px Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 center|60px John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 center|60px Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 center|60px Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 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 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 center|60px Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903 center|60px Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 center|60px Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915 center|60px Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 center|60px Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904 center|60px Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 center|60px Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 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 Thomas J. Hannon December 9, 1900 center|60px Francis Appleton Harding 1908 center|60px Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908 center|60px Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928 center|60px George W. Hill September 15, 1888 center|60px Paul L. Hinckley August 16, 1910 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 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 Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920 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 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 center|60px Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 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 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 center|60px Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 center|60px John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912 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 Thomas Francis Linehan November 23, 1905 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 center|60px Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927 center|60px Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921 center|60px Rico Matera June 21, 1917 center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px Hugh J. McLaughlin September 27, 1915 center|60px John P. McMorrow September 19, 1926 center|60px Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906 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 John E. Murphy February 13, 1900 center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 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 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 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 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 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 Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 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 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 Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 center|60px William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 center|60px Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896 center|60px Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 center|60px Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 center|60px Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910 center|60px John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909 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 Thomas J. Slack February 10, 1914 center|60px Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918 center|60px George T. Smith March 18, 1888 center|60px Leo Sontag August 16, 1922 center|60px Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924 center|60px George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 center|60px C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 center|60px Franklin Sturgis Jr. October 18, 1883 center|60px William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 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 Duncan Forbes Thayer February 14, 1900 center|60px John F. Thompson May 20, 1920 center|60px George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917 center|60px Irene Thresher July 6, 1900 center|60px Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 center|60px Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921 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 Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922 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 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 center|60px Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883 center|60px Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918 center|60px Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 center|60px Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 center|60px Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 center|60px John Yerxa April 23, 1904 center|60px Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 center|60px John F. Zamparelli December 13, 1922 center|60px Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904 See also 84th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading Big Job Ahead: Massachusetts Legislature Has Record Load of Bills New York Times December 12, 1954 1955 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40792 External links Photo of William Randolph Hearst Jr. speaking to members of the legislature, March 31, 1955 2452/238759 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1955 Massachusetts General Court 2452/50972 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1955 2452/238760 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1956 Massachusetts General Court 2452/40893 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1956 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1955 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1956 in Massachusetts