1979–1980 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 171stMassachusetts General Court General Court 1979 01 3 1980 07 05 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+ 170th 172nd 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 President William Bulger Majority leader Daniel J. Foley Vice-Leader Majority of House of Representatives Mary L. Fonseca Minority Leader John Francis Parker Vice-Leader Minority 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 Vice-Leader Majority of State Senate John E. Murphy Jr. Vice-Leader Minority of State Senate William G. Robinson Vice-Leader Assistant Minority of Massachusetts State Senate Iris Holland right 308 Senate President William M. Bulger (9519685196).jpg William Bulger William Bulger, Senate president. Thomas W. McGee.jpg Thomas W. McGee Thomas McGee, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1979-1980. The 171st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1979 and 1980 during the governorship of Edward J. King. William Bulger served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House.1979-1980 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Boston https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19791980bost/mode/2up In 1980, the General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state.Feldberg Michael UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth-Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, Massachusetts 2015 123 978-1625341693 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, 1979 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796419/1979-Senate-02-Appendix.pdf center|60px Carol C. 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 Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933 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 Gerard D'Amico July 27, 1947 center|60px Francis D. Doris 1931 center|60px Jack Fitzpatrick (businessman) 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 Paul D. Harold September 5, 1948 center|60px Robert M. Hunt January 4, 1936 center|60px John G. King November 30, 1942 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 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 Samuel Rotondi April 22, 1946 center|60px Philip L. Shea October 19, 1941 center|60px Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942 center|60px Joseph F. Timilty October 3, 1938 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 4th Bristol center|60px Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942 center|60px Lawrence R. Alexander 1950 center|60px Alfred Almeida October 5, 1931 center|60px Robert B. Ambler 1927 center|60px Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Michael J. Barrett June 27, 1948 center|60px Timothy A. Bassett December 16, 1947 center|60px William D. Benson 1948 center|60px Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923 center|60px Walter Bickford February 16, 1942 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 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 Charles J. Buffone 1919 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 Andrew Card May 10, 1947 center|60px William A. Carey January 28, 1920 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 Salvatore Cimino October 27, 1933 center|60px Forrester Clark November 30, 1934 center|60px Deborah R. Cochran September 18, 1939 center|60px David B. Cohen (mayor) September 2, 1947 center|60px Gerald M. Cohen February 22, 1934 center|60px Lincoln P. Cole Jr. September 18, 1918 center|60px James G. Collins August 2, 1946 center|60px Edward W. Connelly August 2, 1919 center|60px Leo R. Corazzini February 17, 1930 center|60px Robert Correia January 3, 1939 center|60px Nicholas Costello 1935 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 Richard H. Demers January 19, 1928 center|60px A. Joseph DeNucci August 30, 1939 center|60px Salvatore DiMasi August 11, 1945 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 Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938 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 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 William F. Galvin September 17, 1950 center|60px Ann Gannett November 7, 1916 center|60px Mary Jane Gibson February 7, 1933 center|60px Robert W. Gillette September 1, 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 James T. Harrington June 9, 1949 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 Stephen Karol 1948 center|60px Bill Keating (politician) September 6, 1952 center|60px George Keverian June 3, 1931 center|60px Arthur M. Khoury February 5, 1940 center|60px Mel King October 20, 1928 center|60px Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927 center|60px Nickolas Lambros January 9, 1933 center|60px Robert F. Larkin Jr. May 29, 1955 center|60px Denis Lawrence 1940 center|60px Mark E. Lawton July 26, 1949 center|60px Edward LeLacheur June 1, 1925 center|60px Leon Lombardi April 16, 1949 center|60px Michael J. Lombardi May 27, 1917 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px John Loring 1926 center|60px Thomas R. Lussier April 5, 1957 center|60px Thomas K. Lynch April 30, 1946 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 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 Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 center|60px Michael J. McGlynn April 23, 1953 center|60px Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 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 John F. Melia June 5, 1915 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 David J. Mofenson February 7, 1943 center|60px F. John Monahan July 3, 1943 center|60px Richard T. Moore August 7, 1943 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 Andrew Natsios September 22, 1949 center|60px Joseph M. Navin May 19, 1946 center|60px David Robert Nelson center|60px Lou Nickinello September 8, 1940 center|60px Thomas C. Norton December 11, 1934 center|60px Nicholas Paleologos March 9, 1953 center|60px Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 center|60px John B. Perry February 15, 1935 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 Daniel F. Pokaski June 26, 1949 center|60px Michael J. Rea Jr. July 23, 1940 center|60px Richard P. Roche February 15, 1952 center|60px Andrew J. Rogers Jr. May 6, 1944 center|60px Robert J. Rohan August 15, 1921 center|60px J. Michael Ruane December 10, 1927 center|60px Alfred E. Saggese Jr. November 21, 1946 center|60px Sherman Saltmarsh April 27, 1929 center|60px Joseph Scelsi June 4, 1915 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923 center|60px Emanuel Serra June 12, 1945 center|60px Philip L. Shea October 19, 1941 center|60px Richard R. Silva March 13, 1922 center|60px Theodore C. Speliotis August 20, 1953 center|60px Gregory W. Sullivan January 29, 1952 center|60px Royall H. Switzler September 27, 1938 center|60px Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920 center|60px Richard Voke December 2, 1947 center|60px Richard L. Walsh July 26, 1948 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 96th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1979 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40803 Court Massachusetts General Massachusetts Legislature Meets on Transit Crisis New York Times December 2, 1980 External links Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1978/year_to:1978/office_id:9/stage:General 1978 State Senate General Election Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1978/year_to:1978/office_id:8/stage:General 1978 State Representative General Election 2452/335752 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1979 Massachusetts General Court 2452/3383 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1979 2452/335753 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1980 Massachusetts General Court 2452/3384 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1980 https://student.nesl.edu/research/Legislative_Council.cfm Commonwealth of Massachusetts Reports of the Legislative Research Council New England School of Law August 22, 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:1979 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1980 in Massachusetts