1947–1948 Massachusetts legislature

none February 2025 January 2025 155thMassachusetts General Court General Court November 5, 1946 1947 01 1 1947 07 1 1948 01 7 1948 06 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+ 154th 156th 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 Donald W. Nicholson, Harris S. Richardson 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) The 155th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met from January 1, 1947, to June 18, 1948, during the governorship of Robert F. Bradford, in Boston. State Senate Districts As established by Chapter 507 of the Acts of 1939. The state census of 1935 was the basis of the apportionment. 30em Berkshire District: Adams, Becket, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Dalton, Florida, Hancock, Hinsdale, Lanesborough, Lenox, New Ashford, North Adams, Peru, Pittsfield, Richmond, Savoy, Stockbridge, Washington, West Stockbridge, Williamstown, Windsor First Bristol District: Acushnet, Attleboro, Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Freetown, Mansfield, North Attleboro, Norton, Plainville, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Swansea, Taunton Second Bristol District: Fall River, Somerset Third Bristol District: Dartmouth, Fairhaven, New Bedford, Westport Cape and Plymouth District: Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Carver, Chatham, Chilmark, Dennis, Duxbury, Eastham, Edgartown, Falmouth, Gay Head, Gosnold, Halifax, Hanson, Harwich, Kingston, Marion, Mashpee, Mattapoisett, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Provincetown, Rochester, Sandwich, Tisbury, Truro, Wareham, Wellfleet, West Tisbury, Whitman, Yarmouth First Essex District: Lynn, Nahant, Swampscott Second Essex District: Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Salem Third Essex District: Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynnfield, Manchester, Middleton, Newbury, Newburyport, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Saugus, Topsfield, Wenham Fourth Essex District: Amesbury, Andover, Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Merrimac, North Andover, North Reading, Salisbury, West Newbury Fifth Essex District: Lawrence, Methuen Franklin and Hampshire District: Amherst, Ashfield, Bernardston, Belchertown, Buckland, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Easthampton, Enfield*, Erving, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Greenfield, Greenwich*, Hadley, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Huntington, Leverett, Leyden, Ludlow, Middlefield, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northfield, Orange, Pelham, Prescott*, Rowe, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Sunderland, Ware, Warwick, Wendell, Whately, Williamsburg, Worthington First Hampden District: Longmedaow, Springfield Wards 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Second Hampden District: Chicopee, Holyoke, Springfield Ward 1 Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire District: Agawam, Alford, Blandford, Chester, Egremont, Granville, Great Barrington, Lee, Monterey, Montgomery, Mount Washington, New Marlborough, Otis, Russell, Sandisfield, Sheffield, Southwick, Springfield Ward 3, Tollan, Tyringham, Westfield, West Springfield First Middlesex District: Ashby, Ayer, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Littleton Wards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Lowell Ward 11, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Westford Second Middlesex District: Belmont, Cambridge Wards 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Somerville Wards 6, 7 Third Middlesex District: Cambridge Ward 3, Malden Ward 3, Medford Wards 1, 5, 7, Somerville Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (*)Terminated. See Acts of 1927, chapter 321; Acts of 1938, chapter 240 and 455. Senators 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, 1947 State Library of Massachusetts https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/796249/1947-House-01-Appendix.pdf Portrait Senator Date of birth Party Hometown Notes Berkshire center|60px Michael H. Condron DemocraticPittsfield BristolFirst center|60px Willard A. Ormsbee RepublicanRaynhamChairman, Aeronautics; chairman, Mercantile AffairsSecond center|60px William Emmet White June 1, 1900 DemocraticFall RiverThird center|60px Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 DemocraticNew Bedford Cape and Plymouth center|60px Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 RepublicanWarehamPresident of the Senate; chairman, Rules EssexFirst center|60px Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 DemocraticLynnSecond center|60px J. Elmer Callahan RepublicanSalemChairman, Constitutional LawThird center|60px Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 RepublicanRowleyChairman, State AdministrationFourth Philip K. Allen January 3, 1910 RepublicanAndoverChairman, AgricultureFifth center|60px Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 DemocraticLawrence Franklin and Hampshire center|60px Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 RepublicanOrangeChairman, Education; chairman, Public Health HampdenFirst center|60px Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 RepublicanSpringfieldChairman, Military Affairs and Public SafetySecond center|60px William E. Nolen DemocraticHolyoke Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire center|60px Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 RepublicanNorthamptonChairman, Cities; chairman, Water Supply MiddlesexFirst center|60px William C. Geary DemocraticLowellSecond center|60px Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902 RepublicanCambridgeChairman, Legal Affairs; chairman, TaxationThird center|60px Burton F. Faulkner DemocraticSomervilleFourth center|60px Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 RepublicanEverettChairman, Civil Service; chairman, Departmental Rules and RegulationsFifth center|60px Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 RepublicanWalthamChairman, Conservation; chairman, Power and LightSixth center|60px Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 RepublicanWinchesterChairman, Ways and MeansSeventh center|60px George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 RepublicanWakefieldChairman, Labor and Industries; chairman, Pensions Middlesex and Norfolk center|60px Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 RepublicanAshlandChairman, Public Lands; chairman, Public Welfare Middlesex and Suffolk center|60px Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 RepublicanNewtonChairman, Public Service NorfolkFirst center|60px John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 RepublicanQuincyChairman, JudiciarySecond center|60px Mason Sears December 29, 1899 RepublicanDedhamChairman, Election Laws Norfolk and Plymouth center|60px Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 RepublicanWeymouthChairman, Bills in the Third Reading; chairman, Counties Norfolk and Suffolk center|60px Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 RepublicanBrooklineChairman, Metropolitan Affairs Plymouth center|60px Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 RepublicanBrocktonChairman, Engrossed Bills; chairman, Municipal Finance SuffolkFirst center|60px Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 DemocraticChelseaSecond center|60px Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 DemocraticBostonThird center|60px Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 RepublicanBostonChairman, InsuranceFourth center|60px John E. Powers November 10, 1910 DemocraticBostonFifth center|60px Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 DemocraticBostonMinority Floor LeaderSixth center|60px Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 DemocraticBostonSeventh center|60px Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907 DemocraticBoston WorcesterFirst center|60px William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 DemocraticWorcesterSecond center|60px Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 RepublicanWorcesterChairman, Banks and BankingThird center|60px George W. Stanton DemocraticFitchburgFourth center|60px Joseph Simon Virostek RepublicanDouglasChairman, Towns; chairman, Transportation Worcester and Hampden center|60px Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 RepublicanSouthbridgeChairman, Highways and Motor Vehicles Employees Irving N. Hayden, Clerk of the Senate Thomas A. Chadwick, Assistant Clerk of the Senate William F. Dillon, Clerical Assistant to Clerk of the Senate Frederick May Elliot, Chaplain of the Senate William F. Furbush, Secretary to the President of the Senate and Clerk of the Senate Committee on Rules Fernald Hutchins, Counsel to the Senate Thomas R. Bateman, Assistant Counsel to the Senate Royal B. Patriquin, Assistant to Counsel of the Senate Representatives portrait name 1947-1948 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19471948bost 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 Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899 center|60px John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 center|60px Joseph A. Aspero center|60px Samuel Greenleaf Atkinson center|60px Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 center|60px Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895 center|60px Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905 William B. Bailey December 11, 1892 center|60px Laurence H. BanksBlack Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present 2452/48905 State Library of Massachusetts 2010 Massachusetts State Library of Court Massachusetts General center|60px Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 center|60px George L. Barrus December 15, 1880 center|60px Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898 center|60px Norman S. Baxter center|60px Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 center|60px William Berthiaume center|60px G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906 center|60px Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911 center|60px Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 center|60px Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 center|60px Stanley John Borsa center|60px Gerald Timothy Bowler center|60px Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 center|60px Jeremiah Francis Brennan center|60px Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888 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 Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883 center|60px James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910 center|60px Harland Burke April 22, 1888 center|60px Philip Courtland Burr center|60px Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914 center|60px Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 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 Enrico Cappucci 1910 center|60px Ernest Westervelt Carman center|60px Arthur B. Carney Jr. center|60px John Henry Carroll center|60px William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 center|60px Daniel Casey May 7, 1890 center|60px Francis X. Casey center|60px Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 center|60px Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 center|60px Philip Aloysius Chapman William G. Clark Jr. May 6, 1912 center|60px David M. Cleary May 9, 1901 center|60px Thomas Francis Coady 1878 center|60px John F. Collins http://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2014/04/some-mayors-of-boston-who-had-been.html Pamela W. Schofield Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court April 14, 2014 State Library of Massachusetts blog July 20, 1919 11th 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 Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916 center|60px Michael John Conway 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 Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894 center|60px Patrick Francis Cronin center|60px Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911 center|60px Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 center|60px John G. Curley 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 Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895 center|60px Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888 center|60px Howard Bernard Driscoll center|60px Joseph Edward Duffy September 25, 1912 center|60px Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 center|60px Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891 center|60px Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879 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 Maurice Edward Fitzgerald center|60px Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889 center|60px William J. Fitzsimons center|60px Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 center|60px John F. Foster center|60px Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 center|60px George Fuller July 24, 1893 center|60px John L. Gallant 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 Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 center|60px Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 center|60px George Greene March 7, 1897 12th Suffolk center|60px Francis G. Gregory center|60px Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903 center|60px Jacob Hakala 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 C. Vernon Inett 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 Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910 center|60px Jeremiah Kamens center|60px Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 center|60px Clarence Karelitz center|60px Warren Charles Karner 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 Thomas E. Key center|60px Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901 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 C. Edwin Lofgren center|60px Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 center|60px Raymond Joseph Lord center|60px Burton Elmer Loring C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913 center|60px Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 center|60px Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 10th Suffolk center|60px George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877 center|60px William Markland center|60px Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897 center|60px George Francis Martin Jr. center|60px Francis V. Matera center|60px Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 center|60px Frank D. McCarthy center|60px Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 center|60px Elmer L. McCulloch center|60px Samuel D. McLeod center|60px Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883 center|60px Sherman Miles December 5, 1882 center|60px Hugh Morton center|60px Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907 center|60px Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899 center|60px George Bernard Murphy Jr. center|60px Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 center|60px Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 center|60px Louis K. Nathanson 12th Suffolk 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 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917 center|60px Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895 center|60px Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912 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 Henry W. Pickford center|60px Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909 center|60px Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862 2nd Franklin center|60px George William Porter November 6, 1885 center|60px Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 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 Hallam Taylor Ring center|60px Joseph D. Rivest 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 Daniel Rudsten center|60px Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson center|60px Thomas Aloysius Scanlan center|60px Raymond William Schlapp 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 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 George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902 center|60px Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904 center|60px Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905 center|60px Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904 center|60px Paul A. Sullivan center|60px Ralph Warren Sullivan center|60px Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 center|60px Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898 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 Talbot T. Tweedy center|60px James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908 center|60px Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 center|60px Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 center|60px John H. Valentine July 21, 1896 center|60px John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878 center|60px James T. Violette center|60px William X. Wall July 1, 1904 center|60px Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 center|60px John Cummings Webster Jr. center|60px Norman F. Wellen center|60px John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881 center|60px Malcolm Stuart White center|60px Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905 center|60px John S. Whittemore 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 Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden center|60px Arthur Eaton Young center|60px Arthur Lincoln Youngman See also 1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 80th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts References Further reading 2452/43438 Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1946) Secretary of the Commonwealth 1947 1947 Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts Manual for the Use of the General Court 2452/40788 Court Massachusetts General External links 2452/219469 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1947 Massachusetts General Court 2452/219470 Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1948 Massachusetts 2452/55996 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1947 2452/55997 Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1948 Category:Political history of Massachusetts Category:Massachusetts legislative sessions massachusetts massachusetts