1969–1970 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 166thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 5, 1968 1969 01 1 1969 08 25 1970 01 7 1970 08 25 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+ 165th 167th Senate 40 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 Maurice A. Donahue (2nd Hampden district) Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington Majority Whip Mario Umana Minority Leader John Francis Parker Minority Whip William D. Weeks 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 David M. Bartley Majority Leader Thomas W. McGee Majority Whip Paul F. Murphy Minority Leader Sidney Curtiss Minority Whip George W. Shattuck right 308 Maurice Donahue 1960s Massachsuetts 11191699173.png Maurice A. Donahue Maurice Donahue, Senate president. David M Bartley.jpg David M. Bartley David Bartley, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1969. The 166th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1969 and 1970 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley 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 Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796359/1969-Senate-02-Appendix.pdf center|60px Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk center|60px John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924 center|60px James F. Burke September 7, 1914 center|60px Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934 center|60px Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934 center|60px John J. Conte May 3, 1930 center|60px James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 center|60px Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936 center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px George D. Hammond October 29, 1906 center|60px Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 center|60px Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 center|60px John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930 center|60px Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 center|60px Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 center|60px James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 center|60px George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929 center|60px Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 center|60px David H. Locke August 4, 1927 center|60px Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934 center|60px Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930 center|60px Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 center|60px George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924 center|60px Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 center|60px Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927 center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918 center|60px John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935 center|60px Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 center|60px William I. Randall September 13, 1915 center|60px James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 center|60px William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927 center|60px Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 center|60px William D. Weeks May 9, 1926 center|60px Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1924 Representatives portrait name 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19691970bost 1969 date of birth district center|60px James A. Adams December 24, 1923 center|60px Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 10th Bristol center|60px David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929 center|60px Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942 center|60px Robert B. Ambler https://www.mass.gov/lists/massachusetts-state-legislators-papers-collections-at-the-state-library Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library State Library of Massachusetts Mass.gov September 3, 2020 1927 center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Robert S. Aronson July 3, 1920 center|60px Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Roger Sumner Babb 1935 center|60px Jack Backman April 26, 1922 center|60px Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914 center|60px David M. Bartley February 9, 1935 center|60px Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930 center|60px Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927 center|60px Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933 center|60px Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923 center|60px Donald T. Bliss 1937 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 George Bourque 1913 center|60px John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917 center|60px James John Bowler July 18, 1923 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 center|60px John R. Buckley 1932 center|60px Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931 center|60px Nicholas J. Buglione 1932 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 center|60px Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 center|60px Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912 center|60px Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916 center|60px Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909 center|60px Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923 center|60px William A. Carey January 28, 1920 center|60px Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919 center|60px Daniel William Carney August 17, 1925 center|60px Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903 center|60px Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Rudy Chmura March 21, 1932 center|60px Steve T. Chmura March 29, 1928 center|60px John F. Coffey February 7, 1918 center|60px Lincoln P. Cole Jr. September 18, 1918 center|60px Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910 center|60px H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929 center|60px William Augustine Connell Jr. November 17, 1922 center|60px James S. Conway July 4, 1930 center|60px Francis X. Coppinger March 12, 1935 center|60px Paul J. Corriveau July 3, 1930 center|60px Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927 center|60px Gilbert W. Cox Jr. February 28, 1933 center|60px James J. Craven Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Robert Creedon November 13, 1942 center|60px Thomas E. Creighton February 1, 1922 center|60px Paul W. Cronin March 14, 1938 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px Michael John Daly July 18, 1940 center|60px Richard W. Daly March 25, 1936 center|60px Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940 center|60px Joseph Del Grosso July 25, 1904 center|60px John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930 center|60px Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930 center|60px Edward J. Dever Jr. June 21, 1936 center|60px Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912 center|60px Anthony R. DiFruscia June 5, 1940 center|60px George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919 center|60px John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926 center|60px Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933 center|60px Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917 center|60px Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933 center|60px Charles F. Engdahl July 3, 1921 center|60px Seymour F. Epstein November 7, 1919 center|60px Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Vernon R. Farnsworth Jr. April 18, 1934 center|60px Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938 center|60px Irving Fishman March 29, 1921 center|60px Charles Flaherty October 13, 1938 center|60px Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936 center|60px Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929 center|60px Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920 center|60px David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933 center|60px Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921 center|60px Maurice E. Frye Jr. February 6, 1921 center|60px Edward F. Galotti May 11, 1925 center|60px Ann Gannett November 7, 1916 center|60px Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926 center|60px T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914 center|60px J. Laurence Golden June 10, 1933 center|60px Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930 center|60px James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911 center|60px Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913 center|60px Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911 center|60px Barry T. Hannon November 21, 1935 center|60px Walter J. Hannon September 4, 1931 center|60px Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 center|60px J. Edmond Harris November 17, 1916 center|60px David E. Harrison June 19, 1933 center|60px Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925 center|60px Michael E. HaynesBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General May 9, 1927 center|60px Winston Healy October 20, 1937 center|60px Theodore M. Herman October 5, 1919 center|60px Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938 center|60px William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925 center|60px Franklin W. Holgate May 3, 1929 center|60px Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 center|60px Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939 center|60px John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 center|60px John Janas September 4, 1910 center|60px Daniel L. Joyce Jr. May 14, 1934 center|60px Francis M. Keane April 8, 1933 center|60px Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927 center|60px F. Leo Kenney November 15, 1902 center|60px Walter T. Kerr May 20, 1918 center|60px George Keverian June 3, 1931 center|60px Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928 center|60px Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 center|60px Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921 center|60px Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 center|60px Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927 center|60px Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936 center|60px Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917 center|60px Francis C. Lapointe January 13, 1939 center|60px J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940 center|60px Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr. September 3, 1934 center|60px David Samuel Liederman April 26, 1935 center|60px Martin A. Linsky August 28, 1940 center|60px Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 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 John C. Losch March 23, 1932 center|60px Charles A. MacKenzie Jr. February 4, 1919 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 center|60px Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940 center|60px Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922 center|60px Charles Mann April 27, 1935 center|60px M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924 center|60px Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 center|60px Clifford Marshall December 14, 1937 center|60px Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926 center|60px Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. October 28, 1909 center|60px Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932 center|60px Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941 center|60px Edward A. McColgan March 20, 1932 center|60px Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 center|60px Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918 center|60px John Austin Shaw McGlennon August 10, 1935 center|60px John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 center|60px Charles M. McGowan November 13, 1923 center|60px Allan McGuane July 26, 1928 center|60px Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 center|60px John F. Melia June 5, 1915 center|60px Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 center|60px John J. Mooney August 14, 1930 center|60px Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921 center|60px Louis J. Morini October 8, 1907 center|60px Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932 center|60px Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932 center|60px Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921 center|60px John J. Navin September 9, 1915 center|60px Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex center|60px James R. Nolen April 17, 1933 center|60px Nils L. Nordberg November 6, 1934 center|60px Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906 center|60px James Anthony O'Brien Jr. June 22, 1919 center|60px John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937 center|60px Norton Cornelius O'Brien April 9, 1907 center|60px Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 center|60px David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 center|60px Philip Conroy O'Donnell July 29, 1915 center|60px Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936 center|60px Carl R. Ohlson June 4, 1925 center|60px John Olver September 3, 1936 center|60px Bernard Paquette February 2, 1919 center|60px Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 center|60px Felix Perrault October 27, 1915 center|60px William A. Pickett June 10, 1935 center|60px Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915 center|60px Vincent J. Piro 1931 center|60px Manuel Raposa Jr. May 13, 1915 center|60px Harry A. S. Read November 18, 1936 center|60px William Reinstein March 26, 1929 center|60px Robert C. Reynolds November 6, 1934 center|60px William G. Robinson March 10, 1926 center|60px J. Hilary Rockett January 16, 1935 center|60px George Rogers (Massachusetts politician) August 2, 1933 center|60px Maurice E. Ronayne Jr. November 16, 1917 center|60px Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906 center|60px Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917 center|60px William H. Ryan July 17, 1938 center|60px George Sacco July 19, 1936 center|60px Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 center|60px Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914 center|60px Frederic W. Schlosstein Jr. March 17, 1923 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931 center|60px Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923 center|60px I. Edward Serlin August 21, 1912 center|60px George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916 center|60px H. James Shea Jr. December 10, 1939 center|60px C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916 center|60px Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934 center|60px Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927 center|60px Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 center|60px Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923 center|60px Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942 center|60px John J. Slater Jr. November 27, 1925 center|60px Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 center|60px George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 center|60px William J. Spence May 4, 1930 center|60px John F. St. Cyr January 8, 1936 center|60px Kevin C. Sullivan center|60px Charles Tagman center|60px A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915 center|60px Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Daniel C. Towse December 5, 1924 center|60px George E. Twomey February 3, 1920 center|60px Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920 center|60px Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 center|60px Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 center|60px Richard L. Wood center|60px George L. Woods Jr. March 28, 1925 center|60px George Chester Young September 18, 1912 center|60px Bruce H. Zeiser center|60px Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934 See also 1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 91st United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading 2452/43460 Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1968) Secretary of the Commonwealth 1969 Democrats Gain Firm Control Of Massachusetts Legislature New York Times November 8, 1968 1969 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40799 Court Massachusetts General High Drama at the State House: 'The House Cut' (Feb. 25, 1970) John F. Parker https://archive.org/details/legislativelifei00park/page/n165/mode/1up Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor 1985 New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston External links 2452/429130 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1969 Massachusetts General Court 2452/429131 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1970 Massachusetts General Court 2452/2673 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1969 2452/2674 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1970 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:1969 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1970 in Massachusetts