1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 154thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 7, 1944 1945 01 3 1945 07 25 1946 01 2 1946 06 15 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+ 153rd 155th Senate 40 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 Arthur W. Coolidge (7th Middlesex district) House 240 RepublicanComposition 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 Frederick Willis (10th Essex) right 308 1945 Arthur Coolidge senator Massachusetts.jpg Arthur Coolidge Arthur Coolidge, Senate president. 1945 Frederick Willis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Frederick Willis Frederick Willis, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1945. The 154th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1945 and 1946 during the governorship of Maurice J. Tobin. Arthur W. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Frederick Willis 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 House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1945 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796240/1945-House-01-Appendix.pdf center|60px John Albetski 4th Worcester center|60px Benjamin J. Bowen January 19, 1876 center|60px Richard S. Bowers June 18, 1900 center|60px J. Elmer Callahan center|60px Michael H. Condron center|60px William R. Conley September 1, 1900 center|60px Arthur W. Coolidge October 13, 1881 center|60px Clifford Rudolph Cusson January 6, 1895 center|60px Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 center|60px Burton F. Faulkner center|60px William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904 center|60px Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 center|60px Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872 center|60px Robert L. Lee center|60px Stephen F. Loughlin center|60px John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 center|60px Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 center|60px Joseph F. Montminy center|60px Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907 center|60px Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 center|60px William E. Nolen center|60px Willard A. Ormsbee center|60px James Austin Peckham center|60px Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 center|60px Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 center|60px Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902 center|60px George W. Stanton center|60px Charles F. Sullivan October 10, 1904 center|60px Leo J. Sullivan December 8, 1905 center|60px Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 center|60px Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 Representatives Portrait Name 1945-1946 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19451946bost Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove Date of Birth District center|60px Wilfred J. Achin May 12, 1891 3rd Berkshire center|60px Richard James Allen June 22, 1909 center|60px John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 center|60px Charles J. Artesani center|60px Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899 center|60px John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 center|60px Joseph A. Aspero center|60px Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 center|60px Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905 center|60px Charles Homer Barrett June 23, 1868 center|60px George L. Barrus December 15, 1880 center|60px William R. Barry February 2, 1905 center|60px Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898 center|60px Norman S. Baxter center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px C. Ray Bennett center|60px G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906 center|60px Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911 center|60px Albert F. Bigelow October 4, 1880 10th Norfolk center|60px Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 center|60px Stanley John Borsa center|60px Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901 center|60px Russell P. Brown August 24, 1891 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 William Albert Brown February 5, 1888 center|60px Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883 center|60px Harland Burke April 22, 1888 center|60px Edward Butterworth August 14, 1908 center|60px Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914 center|60px Bartholomew John Callery Jr. March 28, 1910 center|60px Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879 center|60px Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887 center|60px Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875 center|60px Edmund Euplio Capodilupo July 7, 1913 center|60px Enrico Cappucci 1910 center|60px Ernest Westervelt Carman center|60px John Henry Carroll center|60px William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 center|60px Daniel Casey May 7, 1890 center|60px James Frederick Catusi center|60px Perlie Dyar Chase July 31, 1905 center|60px David M. Cleary May 9, 1901 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady 1878 center|60px J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894 center|60px Joseph T. Conley center|60px Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916 center|60px Michael John Conway center|60px Florence E. Cook July 8, 1908 center|60px Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878 center|60px George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905 center|60px Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894 center|60px Patrick Francis Cronin center|60px Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 center|60px Adin Willard Custance center|60px Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 center|60px Lawrence Harvard Davis center|60px George Walter Dean center|60px Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889 center|60px Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 center|60px Burt Dewar December 29, 1884 center|60px Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890 center|60px Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896 center|60px Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888 center|60px Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 center|60px Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904 center|60px Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895 center|60px Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888 center|60px Howard Bernard Driscoll center|60px Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 center|60px Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891 center|60px Clifton Emerson Dwelly January 11, 1893 center|60px Louis Henry Elliot center|60px Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879 center|60px Charles Kingsbury Endicott October 4, 1892 center|60px Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 center|60px Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875 center|60px George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 center|60px John R. Fausey March 19, 1870 center|60px Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 center|60px Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 center|60px Joseph P. Ferriter March 25, 1905 center|60px Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889 center|60px John Edward Flaherty December 31, 1910 center|60px William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 center|60px Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 center|60px John F. Foster center|60px George Fuller July 24, 1893 center|60px John L. Gallant center|60px Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 center|60px Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899 center|60px Dennis P. Glynn September 29, 1906 center|60px Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 center|60px Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 center|60px George Greene March 7, 1897 center|60px Francis G. Gregory center|60px Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903 center|60px James Edward Hannon center|60px Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 center|60px Joseph B. Harrington center|60px Frederick Roy Harvey Jr. 11th Suffolk center|60px William E. Hays November 28, 1903 center|60px Henry Davis Higgins February 24, 1873 center|60px Ralph H. Hill February 5, 1915 center|60px Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 center|60px Frank Hathaway Horton July 15, 1874 center|60px J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 center|60px I. Grafton Howes June 17, 1889 center|60px Orison Valentine Hull November 9, 1873 center|60px Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 center|60px Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 center|60px Edward A. Hutchinson Jr. December 13, 1911 center|60px Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 center|60px Henderson Inches center|60px Harvey Iris 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 Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910 center|60px Walter Francis Kane center|60px Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 center|60px Clarence Karelitz center|60px Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893 center|60px Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890 center|60px Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905 center|60px Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 center|60px George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909 center|60px Laurence W. Law center|60px Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 center|60px Louis Lobel August 10, 1911 center|60px Burton Elmer Loring center|60px Jeremiah G. Lucey center|60px William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910 center|60px Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 center|60px Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897 center|60px George Francis Martin Jr. center|60px Francis V. Matera center|60px Thomas B. Matthews June 24, 1874 center|60px Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 center|60px Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 center|60px Edward A. McCarthy center|60px Frank D. McCarthy center|60px Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 center|60px Elmer L. McCulloch center|60px James Patrick McDevitt center|60px Patrick J. McDonough April 29, 1911 center|60px Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 center|60px Timothy J. McInerney center|60px Samuel D. McLeod center|60px Philip McMorrow center|60px Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883 center|60px Charles Miller January 12, 1908 center|60px Timothy J. Moriarty August 6, 1909 center|60px Lester Bertram Morley April 19, 1903 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 Henry Thomas Murray Jr. center|60px George Burkman Norton center|60px James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 center|60px William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889 center|60px Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895 center|60px George Joseph O'Shea November 16, 1899 center|60px Frank B. Oliveira center|60px John Thomas Padden May 6, 1903 center|60px Eben Parsons center|60px Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878 center|60px Oscar Houston Perkins January 3, 1879 center|60px Herman Peter Peterson November 21, 1890 center|60px Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862 center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 center|60px William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895 center|60px Stuart Craig Rand June 9, 1888 center|60px George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 center|60px Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903 center|60px John Joseph Riordan center|60px Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883 center|60px Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875 center|60px William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 center|60px Francis Edward Ryan October 6, 1895 center|60px E. Guy Sawyer center|60px Gerald F. Scally July 17, 1905 center|60px Alyce Louise Schlapp November 30, 1912 center|60px William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875 center|60px A. John Serino March 13, 1906 center|60px Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879 center|60px Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897 center|60px Charles E. Shepard September 21, 1901 center|60px Carl A. Sheridan March 24, 1908 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 Margaret Spear August 10, 1882 center|60px Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 center|60px George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902 center|60px Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904 center|60px James E. Sullivan center|60px Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905 center|60px Maurice Henry Sullivan center|60px Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904 center|60px Eugene Joseph Sweeney May 11, 1886 center|60px Joseph James Sweeney January 5, 1893 center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 center|60px Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898 center|60px John H. Taylor 1873 center|60px Robert Leroy Taylor November 22, 1907 center|60px Clarence F. Telford center|60px Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 center|60px Harold Edward Tivey center|60px Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px William Francis Troy center|60px Talbot T. Tweedy center|60px Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 center|60px John H. Valentine July 21, 1896 center|60px John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878 center|60px Arthur F. Verney center|60px James T. Violette center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px George Thomas Walsh February 20, 1904 center|60px John Cummings Webster Jr. center|60px Norman F. Wellen center|60px William Emmet White June 1, 1900 center|60px John S. Whittemore center|60px John Cyril Wickes center|60px Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904 center|60px Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910 center|60px Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 center|60px Albert E. Wood center|60px Clarence A. Wood center|60px Arthur Eaton Young center|60px Arthur Lincoln Youngman See also 1946 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 79th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References 2 Further reading 2452/43436 Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1944) Secretary of the Commonwealth 1945 1945 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40787 Court Massachusetts General Political Pot Starts Boiling as Legislature Opens Today Daily Boston Globe January 2, 1946 At the State House Daily Boston Globe January 4, 1946 External links 2452/279554 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1945 Massachusetts General Court 2452/219468 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1946 Massachusetts General Court 2452/40895 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1945 2452/55995 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1946 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts Category:1945 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1946 in Massachusetts