1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 156thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1949 01 5 1950 08 19 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+ 155th 157th 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 20-20 Republican/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 Chester A. Dolan Jr., Harris S. Richardson 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 Thomas P. O'Neill right 308 1945 Chester Dolan senator Massachusetts.jpg Chester A. Dolan Jr. Chester Dolan, Senate president. 1945 Harris Sawyer Richardson senator Massachusetts.jpg Harris S. Richardson Harris Richardson, Senate president. 1945 Thomas ONeill Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Thomas P. O'Neill Tip O'Neill, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1949-1950. The 156th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1949 and 1950 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Chester A. Dolan Jr. and Harris S. Richardson served as presidents of the Senate. Thomas P. O'Neill served as speaker of the House.1949–1950 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19491950bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1949 Internet Archive In 1949, after 90 years of Republican control of the House, Democrats gained a majority. Evolution of Massachusetts Party Government (1630's-1980's) John F. Parker https://archive.org/details/legislativelifei00park/page/n17/mode/2up Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor 1985 New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston In 1950, the General Court passed a bill prohibiting racial discrimination or segregation in housing.Vale Lawrence J. 2000 From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 301–302 978-0674025752 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, 1949 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796254/1949-House-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 center|60px Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 1st Hampden center|60px John W. Coddaire Jr. center|60px Michael H. Condron center|60px James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 center|60px Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 center|60px Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 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 William C. Geary October 29, 1899 center|60px Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 center|60px Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 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 William Joseph Keenan center|60px Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 center|60px Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 center|60px Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 center|60px John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 center|60px Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 center|60px Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 center|60px Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 center|60px Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 center|60px William E. Nolen center|60px Daniel Francis O'Brien center|60px Francis J. O'Neil center|60px Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 center|60px Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 center|60px Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920 center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 center|60px Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 center|60px George W. Stanton center|60px Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 center|60px Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 center|60px Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 center|60px William Emmet White June 1, 1900 center|60px Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 Representatives portrait name 1949–1950 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19491950bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1949 Internet Archive date of birth district center|60px Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester center|60px Richard James Allen June 22, 1909 center|60px Horace Thurber Aplington center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Charles J. Artesani center|60px John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 center|60px Joseph A. Aspero center|60px Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 center|60px Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895 center|60px Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905 center|60px Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 center|60px Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898 center|60px James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px Angelo Vincent Berlandi center|60px G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906 center|60px Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911 center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 center|60px Belden Bly September 29, 1914 center|60px Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 center|60px Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901 center|60px Gerald Timothy Bowler center|60px Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900 center|60px Jeremiah Francis Brennan center|60px Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877 center|60px Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890 center|60px John D. Brown January 30, 1900 center|60px John Brox November 16, 1910 James J. Bruin October 31, 1898 center|60px John A. Burke March 30, 1910 center|60px Harland Burke April 22, 1888 center|60px Philip Courtland Burr center|60px Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 center|60px Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879 center|60px Eldridge Earl Campbell center|60px Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 center|60px William F. Carr August 4, 1910 center|60px Daniel Casey May 7, 1890 center|60px Francis X. Casey center|60px Michael Catino February 21, 1904 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 center|60px Philip Aloysius Chapman center|60px Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 center|60px John F. Collins July 20, 1919 10th Suffolk center|60px Dana S. Collins center|60px J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894 center|60px James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 center|60px Joseph T. Conley center|60px Louis Benedict Connors center|60px T. Edward Corbett center|60px Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 center|60px George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905 center|60px William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 center|60px James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 center|60px Joseph Henry Cullen center|60px John G. Curley center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px George Walter Dean center|60px Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889 center|60px Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921 center|60px Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 center|60px Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890 center|60px Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896 center|60px William T. Dillon Jr. center|60px Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924 center|60px William P. Di Vitto center|60px Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919 center|60px Francis Clifton Dolan center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 center|60px Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895 center|60px Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888 center|60px Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 center|60px Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891 center|60px Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 center|60px Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 Andrew E. Faulkner September 23, 1913 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 center|60px John Charles Fiore center|60px Maurice Edward Fitzgerald center|60px Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889 center|60px John J. Fitzpatrick center|60px Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 center|60px Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 center|60px George Fuller July 24, 1893 center|60px Francis Thomas Gallagher 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 Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899 center|60px Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 center|60px William A. Glynn 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 Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903 center|60px Frederick Clement Hailer Jr. center|60px James Edward Hannon center|60px Francis Appleton Harding 1908 center|60px Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 center|60px James Alan Hodder 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 Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 center|60px Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 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 Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910 center|60px Francis Xavier Joyce center|60px Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 center|60px Clarence Karelitz center|60px Warren Charles Karner center|60px Henry E. Keenan center|60px Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893 center|60px Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890 center|60px Thomas E. Key center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 center|60px Bernard M. Lally center|60px Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 center|60px Joseph F. Leahy center|60px Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 center|60px Louis Lobel August 10, 1911 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px Raymond Joseph Lord C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913 center|60px John F. Lynch January 26, 1890 center|60px John Pierce Lynch April 19, 1924 center|60px Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 center|60px Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 center|60px Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897 center|60px George Francis Martin Jr. center|60px Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 center|60px Frank D. McCarthy center|60px Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px Timothy J. McInerney center|60px Francis H. McNamara center|60px William E. McNamara center|60px Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883 center|60px Sherman Miles December 5, 1882 center|60px Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908 center|60px Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906 center|60px Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 center|60px Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907 center|60px Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899 center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 center|60px Louis K. Nathanson center|60px James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 center|60px William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889 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 Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895 center|60px Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912 center|60px John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916 center|60px Frank B. Oliveira center|60px Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 center|60px Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895 center|60px Anthony Parenzo center|60px Eben Parsons center|60px Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878 center|60px Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 center|60px Antone Perreira center|60px Michael P. Pessolano center|60px Henry W. Pickford center|60px Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909 center|60px Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917 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 (Massachusetts politician) February 15, 1916 center|60px Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926 center|60px Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 center|60px George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 center|60px Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903 center|60px Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899 center|60px Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883 center|60px Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875 center|60px Daniel Rudsten center|60px Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896 center|60px Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887 center|60px Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson center|60px William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875 center|60px A. John Serino March 13, 1906 center|60px John M. Shea December 8, 1902 center|60px Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897 center|60px Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881 center|60px Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 center|60px Charles J. Skladzien center|60px Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890 center|60px H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914 center|60px Margaret Spear August 10, 1882 center|60px Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905 center|60px Ralph Warren Sullivan center|60px William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 center|60px Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898 center|60px Clarence F. Telford center|60px John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 center|60px Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 center|60px Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 center|60px Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908 center|60px Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 center|60px Mario Umana May 5, 1914 center|60px Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 center|60px John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878 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 John Cummings Webster Jr. center|60px Norman F. Wellen center|60px Malcolm Stuart White center|60px Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905 center|60px John S. Whittemore center|60px Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910 center|60px Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 center|60px Albert E. Wood center|60px Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden center|60px Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 center|60px Arthur Eaton Young See also 81st United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1949 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40789 Court Massachusetts General External links 2452/219471 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1949 Massachusetts General Court 2452/54342 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1949 2452/238754 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1950 Massachusetts General Court 2452/50975 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1950 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1949 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1950 in Massachusetts