1965–1966 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 164thMassachusetts General Court General Court 1965 01 6 1966 09 7 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+ 163rd 165th 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 Maurice A. Donahue Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington Minority Leader Philip A. Graham 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 John Davoren Majority Leader Robert H. Quinn Majority Whip Theophile Jean DesRoches Minority Leader Sidney Curtiss Minority Whip Thomas M. Newth right 308 Maurice Donahue 1960s Massachsuetts 11191699173.png Maurice A. Donahue Maurice Donahue, Senate president. 1967 John Davoren Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John Davoren John Davoren, House speaker. Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1965-1966. The 164th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1965 and 1966 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and John Davoren served as speaker of the House.1965–1966 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/details/publicofficersof19651966bost/page/n3/mode/2up 1965 Internet Archive On April 22, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address to a joint session of the General Court after meeting with Massachusetts Governor John Volpe.Levine Hillel Harmon Lawrence The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions 1992 New York Free Press 85 978-0029138656 In the same month, Volpe filed a request for legislation from the state legislature that defined schools with nonwhite enrollments greater than 50 percent to be imbalanced and granted the State Board of Education the power to withhold state funds from any school district in the state that was found to have racial imbalance, which Volpe would sign into law the following August.Levine Hillel Harmon Lawrence The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions 1992 New York Free Press 212–213 978-0029138656Formisano Ronald P. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s 2004 1991 Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press 35–36 978-0807855263The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965 University of Massachusetts Boston https://bosdesca.omeka.net/exhibits/show/racial-imbalance_bps/racial-imbalance-act-1965 April 3, 2021 May 2, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210502040006/https://bosdesca.omeka.net/exhibits/show/racial-imbalance_bps/racial-imbalance-act-1965 dead 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, 1965 1965 2452/796343 center|60px Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk center|60px Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 center|60px James F. Burke September 7, 1914 center|60px Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934 center|60px John J. Conte May 3, 1930 center|60px Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 center|60px Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924 center|60px James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 center|60px Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 center|60px Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 center|60px Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 center|60px George D. Hammond October 29, 1906 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 James J. Long November 15, 1913 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 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 Vite Pigaga 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 Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 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, 1920 Representatives portrait name date of birth district center|60px Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 5th Bristol center|60px David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929 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 Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 center|60px Jack Backman April 26, 1922 center|60px Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914 center|60px David L. Barrett February 4, 1920 center|60px John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924 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 John T. Berry November 20, 1924 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 Royal L. Bolling June 19, 1920 center|60px Joseph G. Bradley June 14, 1930 center|60px John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 center|60px Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 center|60px John R. Buckley 1932 center|60px Charles J. Buffone 1919 center|60px William Bulger February 2, 1934 center|60px Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931 center|60px George G. Burke August 3, 1932 center|60px Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 center|60px William Francis Butters center|60px Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916 center|60px Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909 center|60px Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923 center|60px Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899 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 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 center|60px Paul A. Cataldo May 15, 1935 center|60px Michael Catino February 21, 1904 center|60px Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903 center|60px Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936 center|60px Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934 center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 center|60px Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 center|60px John George Clark February 26, 1902 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 Abraham L. Cohn May 24, 1898 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 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 center|60px Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 center|60px William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 center|60px George Thomas Contalonis center|60px Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 center|60px Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927 center|60px Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924 center|60px James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 center|60px John J. Cronin August 1, 1910 center|60px Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 center|60px John Davoren July 27, 1915 center|60px John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930 center|60px Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930 center|60px Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 center|60px Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936 center|60px Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936 center|60px Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912 center|60px George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919 center|60px Thomas Henry Doherty Jr. August 8, 1930 center|60px John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 center|60px John F. Donovan Jr. August 21, 1931 center|60px James P. Downey January 9, 1911 center|60px Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 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 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 center|60px Arnold Irving Epstein April 5, 1920 center|60px Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 center|60px Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 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 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 center|60px Irving Fishman March 29, 1921 center|60px John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918 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 Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917 center|60px Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 center|60px John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922 center|60px Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928 center|60px Lester J. Gates center|60px T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914 center|60px Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911 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 Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 center|60px Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936 center|60px Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 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 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 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 center|60px John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 center|60px John Janas September 4, 1910 center|60px Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926 center|60px Katherine Kane April 12, 1935 center|60px Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927 center|60px James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 center|60px Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 center|60px Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 center|60px Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 center|60px Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928 center|60px William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928 center|60px Benjamin Klebanow November 2, 1900 center|60px Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 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 Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936 center|60px J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940 center|60px Peter J. Levanti March 19, 1903 center|60px David H. Locke August 4, 1927 center|60px Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932 center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px John J. Long December 10, 1927 center|60px William Longworth August 17, 1914 center|60px Joseph S. Loughman January 11, 1928 center|60px William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 center|60px J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 center|60px Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940 center|60px Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922 center|60px Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 center|60px Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 center|60px Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918 center|60px John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 center|60px Allan McGuane July 26, 1928 center|60px Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 center|60px James Robert McMahon Jr. center|60px John F. Melia June 5, 1915 center|60px Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 center|60px William James Moran June 24, 1921 center|60px Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921 center|60px Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927 center|60px Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902 center|60px Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 center|60px James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922 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 Patrick William Nee November 22, 1938 center|60px Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex center|60px Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911 center|60px James R. Nolen April 17, 1933 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 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 center|60px David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 center|60px George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 center|60px Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936 center|60px Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921 center|60px Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 center|60px Felix Perrault October 27, 1915 center|60px Albert P. Pettoruto September 29, 1915 center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 center|60px Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 13, 1915 center|60px Paul de Hoff Reed Jr. center|60px Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920 center|60px Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 center|60px Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912 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 Harold Rosen (politician) 1906 center|60px Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906 center|60px Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917 center|60px George Sacco July 19, 1936 center|60px Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 center|60px Duane Thomas Sargisson 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 John W. Sears December 18, 1930 center|60px Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931 center|60px George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916 center|60px Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927 center|60px Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933 center|60px Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934 center|60px Aaron M. I. Shinberg center|60px Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914 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 Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 center|60px George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 center|60px George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 center|60px Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918 center|60px Chandler Harrison Stevens center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 center|60px A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915 center|60px Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 center|60px John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 center|60px David Spence Tobin March 16, 1939 center|60px John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 center|60px Joseph Thomas Travaline center|60px Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 center|60px Elbert Tuttle August 19, 1931 center|60px George E. Twomey February 3, 1920 center|60px John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 center|60px Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936 center|60px George B. Walsh March 21, 1907 center|60px Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 center|60px Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 center|60px Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925 center|60px Norman S. Weinberg 1919 center|60px Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 center|60px James G. Wheeler center|60px Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 center|60px Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 center|60px Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924 center|60px Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934 See also 89th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 1965 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40797 Court Massachusetts General Massachusetts Legislature Votes to Legalize Birth Control for the Married New York Times May 5, 1966 External links 2452/303859 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1965 Massachusetts General Court 2452/2669 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1965 2452/265594 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1966 Massachusetts General Court 2452/2670 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1966 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:1965 in Massachusetts massachusetts Category:1966 in Massachusetts