1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature

The 157th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1951 and 1952 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Tip O'Neill served as speaker of the House.[4]

157th
Massachusetts General Court
←156th 158th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 7, 1950
Senate
Members40
PresidentRichard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerTip O'Neill (3rd Middlesex)
Party controlDemocrat[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 3, 1951 (1951-01-03) – November 17, 1951 (1951-11-17)
2ndJanuary 2, 1952 (1952-01-02) – July 5, 1952 (1952-07-05)
+ 6-day extra session[3]
Richard Furbush
Richard Furbush, Senate president.
Tip O'Neill
Tip O'Neill, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1951.

Senators
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Paul Achin 1st Middlesex
 Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
John W. Coddaire Jr.
John F. Collins[7] July 20, 1919
Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
William Joseph Keenan
Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
Daniel Francis O'Brien
Francis J. O'Neil
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895
Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926
George W. Stanton
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899
William Emmet White June 1, 1900
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Francis Richard Atkinson
John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916
G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906
Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
Samuel Joseph Boudreau
Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901
Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
John Brox November 16, 1910
Walter D. Bryan
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
Eldridge Earl Campbell
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
William F. Carr August 4, 1910
Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
Francis X. Casey
Michael Catino February 21, 1904
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Philip Aloysius Chapman
Stephen Thomas Chmura August 25, 1916
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
Harry Coltun
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
Joseph T. Conley
William P. Constantino August 19, 1911
John W. Costello April 20, 1927
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
Vincent Francis Cronin
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
John G. Curley
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
John A. Davis May 9, 1912
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
William P. Di Vitto
Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919
James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
John Joseph Dwyer
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889
Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
Francis Thomas Gallagher
John L. Gallant
Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910
William A. Glynn
Francis John Good
Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Joseph Patrick Graham August 22, 1902
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
George Greene March 7, 1897
Frederick Clement Hailer Jr.
James Edward Hannon
Francis Appleton Harding 1908
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
Christian A. Herter Jr. January 29, 1919
Albert Fairbanks Higgins
James Alan Hodder
Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
Herbert L. Jackson
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
Francis Xavier Joyce
Abraham Herbert Kahalas
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Henry E. Keenan
William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912
Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909
Thomas E. Key
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897
Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
Bernard M. Lally
Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
Joseph F. Leahy
Carter Lee July 3, 1907
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
William Longworth August 17, 1914
Raymond Joseph Lord
C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913
John Pierce Lynch April 19, 1924
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
Frank D. McCarthy
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
Timothy J. McInerney 10th Suffolk
 Francis H. McNamara
Augustus Gardner Means June 8, 1925
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Sherman Miles December 5, 1882
Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908
Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906
William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
Louis K. Nathanson
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 10th Suffolk
 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916
Frank B. Oliveira
Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
Anthony Parenzo
Eben Parsons
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
Antone Perreira
Michael P. Pessolano
Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909
Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
Harold Putnam (Massachusetts politician) February 15, 1916
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896
Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
Edwin Andrews Seibel
John M. Shea December 8, 1902
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
Thomas H. Spurr Jr.
Walter J. Sullivan March 2, 1923
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
Walter Frank Szetela
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
Clarence F. Telford
Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Philip Anthony Tracy 10th Suffolk
 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914
Martha Ware October 6, 1917
Malcolm Stuart White
Richard James White Jr. April 14, 1890
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905
Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
David B. Williams (politician) January 7, 1919
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
Arthur Eaton Young

See also

References
  1. "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  2. "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  3. "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  4. "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1951" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

Further reading
  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1950), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1951, hdl:2452/43442
  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1951. hdl:2452/40790.
  • John Harris (December 28, 1951), "Legislators Back on Job Wadnesday After Recess", Daily Boston Globe
  • Samuel B. Cutler (1952), "Legislature Reconvenes Tomorrow in Bay State", Daily Boston Globe
  • "Be It Resolved...", Daily Boston Globe, 1952
  • "Legislators to Hear Dever Message Today", Daily Boston Globe, January 2, 1952
  • Duncan MacRae (1952). "The Relation Between Roll Call Votes and Constituencies in the Massachusetts House of Representatives". American Political Science Review. 46. doi:10.2307/1952111.
  • Joseph F. Zimmerman (1962). "Executive Veto in Massachusetts, 1947-1960". Social Science. 37. JSTOR 41884988.
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