1973–1974 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 168thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1973 01 3 1974 08 2 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+ 167th 169th 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 Mario Umana Vice Majority Joseph DiCarlo Minority Leader John Francis Parker Minority Vice 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 David M. Bartley Majority Leader of House of Representatives Thomas W. McGee Vice Majority of House of Representatives William Q. MacLean Jr. Minority Leader in House of Representatives Francis W. Hatch Jr. Vice Assistant Minority of House of Representatives William G. Robinson right 308 1967 Kevin Brian Harrington senator Massachusetts.jpg Kevin B. Harrington Kevin Harrington, Senate president. David M Bartley.jpg David M. Bartley David Bartley, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1973-1974. The 168th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1973 and 1974 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.1973–1974 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19731974bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1973 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, 1973 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796378/1973-Senate-02-Appendix.pdf center|60px Chester G. Atkins April 14, 1948 5th Middlesex 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 Anna Buckley 1924 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 center|60px John W. Bullock March 13, 1929 center|60px Edward L. Burke 1942 center|60px John J. Conte May 3, 1930 center|60px Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936 center|60px Irving Fishman March 29, 1921 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 Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934 center|60px Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 center|60px Stephen McGrail September 23, 1948 center|60px Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 center|60px Allan R. McKinnon June 2, 1930 center|60px George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924 center|60px Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927 center|60px John Olver September 3, 1936 center|60px John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 center|60px John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935 center|60px James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 center|60px William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927 center|60px Frederic W. Schlosstein Jr. March 17, 1923 center|60px Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942 center|60px Joseph F. Timilty (state senator) October 3, 1938 center|60px Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930 center|60px B. Joseph Tully January 4, 1927 center|60px Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1924 Representatives portrait name date of birth district center|60px Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 10th 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 John S. Ames, III October 18, 1936 center|60px Frank A. Antonelli August 20, 1924 center|60px Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Roger Sumner Babb 1935 center|60px Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914 center|60px David M. Bartley February 9, 1935 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 Raymond J. Boffetti 1924 center|60px Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922 center|60px Royal L. Bolling Sr. center|60px Royal L. Bolling Jr. center|60px George Bourque 1913 center|60px John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917 center|60px Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 center|60px Thomas Brownell March 25, 1940 center|60px John R. Buckley 1932 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 Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 John A. Businger center|60px Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912 center|60px Laurence R. Buxbaum March 9, 1942 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 Angelo R. Cataldo November 12, 1917 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 James G. Collins August 2, 1946 center|60px H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929 center|60px Edward W. Connelly August 2, 1919 center|60px James S. Conway July 4, 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 Thomas E. Creighton February 1, 1922 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John F. Cusack October 5, 1937 center|60px Joseph S. Daly October 26, 1931 center|60px Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940 center|60px Richard H. Demers January 19, 1928 center|60px Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930 center|60px Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912 center|60px William J. Dignan September 28, 1926 center|60px Robert F. Donovan September 13, 1936 center|60px Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 center|60px Dennis J. Duffin November 24, 1930 center|60px Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917 center|60px Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933 center|60px Albert E. Elwell October 29, 1899 center|60px Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Vernon R. Farnsworth Jr. April 18, 1934 center|60px John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938 center|60px Richard F. Finnigan September 27, 1936 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 Barney Frank March 31, 1940 center|60px Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921 center|60px Anthony Michael Gallugi May 16, 1948 center|60px Edward F. Galotti May 11, 1925 center|60px Ann Gannett November 7, 1916 center|60px Joseph Garczynski Jr. February 14, 1927 center|60px Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926 center|60px Robert W. Gillette September 1, 1934 center|frameless|75x75pxBarbara GrayOctober 11, 1926 center|60px Henry Grenier December 9, 1924 center|60px Edward J. Grimley Jr. December 26, 1943 center|60px Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913 center|60px Paul Guzzi June 17, 1942 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 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 Iris Holland September 30, 1920 center|60px Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939 center|60px James P. Hurrell March 1, 1944 center|60px Daniel L. Joyce Jr. May 14, 1934 center|60px Richard Kendall August 21, 1934 center|60px George Keverian June 3, 1931 center|60px Arthur M. Khoury February 5, 1940 center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px John G. King (politician) November 30, 1942 center|60px Mel King October 20, 1928 center|60px William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928 center|60px Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927 center|60px Nickolas Lambros January 9, 1933 center|60px Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936 center|60px David Lane (Massachusetts politician) July 6, 1927 center|60px Peter H. Lappin September 25, 1938 center|60px Michael E. McLaughlin October 27, 1945 center|60px David J. Lionett October 3, 1943 center|60px Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px Charles W. Long August 14, 1940 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px John Loring 1926 center|60px Garreth J. Lynch March 13, 1943 center|60px Frederick M. MacDonald August 3, 1924 center|60px Charles A. MacKenzie Jr. February 4, 1919 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 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 Clifford Marshall December 14, 1937 center|60px Peter L. Masnik March 13, 1942 center|60px Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926 center|60px Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932 center|60px Robert E. McCarthy January 12, 1940 center|60px Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941 center|60px Terrence P. McCarthy August 12, 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 Charles M. McGowan November 13, 1923 center|60px Richard M. McGrath April 4, 1931 center|60px Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 center|60px John C. McNeil June 8, 1945 center|60px David J. Mofenson February 7, 1943 center|60px Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932 center|60px John J. Navin September 9, 1915 center|60px Thomas C. Norton December 11, 1934 center|60px James Anthony O'Brien Jr. June 22, 1919 center|60px Kenneth M. O'Brien February 5, 1951 center|60px Henry J. O'Donnell March 13, 1940 center|60px James E. O'Leary April 7, 1933 center|60px Thomas P. O'Neill III 1944 center|60px Carl R. Ohlson June 4, 1925 center|60px O. Roland Orlandi March 25, 1936 center|60px Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician) July 6, 1937 center|60px Robert Owens October 7, 1946 center|60px Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 center|60px Felix Perrault October 27, 1915 center|60px Robert G. Phelan March 19, 1933 center|60px Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915 center|60px Robert C. Reynolds November 6, 1934 center|60px William G. Robinson March 10, 1926 center|60px Maurice E. Ronayne Jr. November 16, 1917 center|60px Jon Rotenberg October 21, 1947 center|60px Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917 center|60px John Rucho November 22, 1922 center|60px William H. Ryan July 17, 1938 center|60px George Sacco July 19, 1936 center|60px Angelo Scaccia September 29, 1942 center|60px Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914 center|60px Joseph Scelsi June 4, 1915 center|60px Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 center|60px Emanuel Serra June 12, 1945 center|60px George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916 center|60px C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916 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 Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923 center|60px William J. Spence May 4, 1930 center|60px George R. Sprague June 19, 1938 center|60px William A. Starzec October 14, 1918 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Daniel C. Towse December 5, 1924 center|60px Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920 center|60px Carlton M. Viveiros December 4, 1938 center|60px Henry A. Walker December 7, 1919 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 center|60px George L. Woods Jr. March 28, 1925 center|60px George Chester Young September 18, 1912 See also 93rd United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading New York Times In Massachusetts, Legislature Votes To Cut Membership June 10, 1973 https://archive.org/details/manualforuseofge197376mass/page/n14/mode/2up Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1973-1974 1973 External links Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1972/year_to:1972/office_id:9/stage:General 1972 State Senate General Election Sec.state.ma.us Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/search/year_from:1972/year_to:1972/office_id:8/stage:General 1972 State Representative General Election 2452/303861 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1973 Massachusetts General Court 2452/26514 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1973 2452/335748 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1974 Massachusetts General Court 2452/32844 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1974 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:1973 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1974 in Massachusetts