1973–1974 Massachusetts legislature

The 168th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1973 and 1974 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.[4]

168th
Massachusetts General Court
←167th 169th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 3, 1973 (1973-01-03) – August 2, 1974 (1974-08-02) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentKevin B. Harrington
Majority LeaderMario Umana
Vice MajorityJoseph DiCarlo
Minority LeaderJohn Francis Parker
Minority ViceDavid H. Locke
Party controlDemocrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerDavid M. Bartley
Majority Leader of House of RepresentativesThomas W. McGee
Vice Majority of House of RepresentativesWilliam Q. MacLean Jr.
Minority Leader in House of RepresentativesFrancis W. Hatch Jr.
Vice Assistent Minority of House of RepresentativesWilliam G. Robinson
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Kevin B. Harrington
Kevin Harrington, Senate president.
David M. Bartley
David Bartley, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1973-1974.

Senators
portrait name [4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 Chester G. Atkins April 14, 1948 5th Middlesex
 John F. Aylmer January 27, 1934
Jack Backman April 26, 1922
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
Walter J. Boverini June 5, 1925
Anna Buckley 1924
William Bulger February 2, 1934
John W. Bullock March 13, 1929
Edward L. Burke 1942
John J. Conte May 3, 1930
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
Irving Fishman March 29, 1921
Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921
Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
Robert A. Hall April 15, 1946
Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926
Arthur Joseph Lewis, Jr. September 3, 1934
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
Stephen McGrail September 23, 1948
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
Allan R. McKinnon June 2, 1930
George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927
John Olver September 3, 1936
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935
James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927
Frederic W. Schlosstein, Jr March 17, 1923
Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942
Joseph F. Timilty (state senator) October 3, 1938
Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930
B. Joseph Tully January 4, 1927
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1924

Representatives
portrait name[4] date of birth [5] district [5]
 Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 10th Bristol
 Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942
Alfred Almeida October 5, 1931
Robert B. Ambler 1927
John S. Ames, III October 18, 1936
Frank A. Antonelli August 20, 1924
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
Roger Sumner Babb 1935
Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914
David M. Bartley February 9, 1935
Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933
Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923
Donald T. Bliss 1937
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
Raymond J. Boffetti 1924
Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922
Royal L. Bolling Sr.
Royal L. Bolling Jr.
George Bourque 1913
John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
Thomas Brownell March 25, 1940
John R. Buckley 1932
Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931
Charles J. Buffone 1919
Nicholas J. Buglione 1932
Doris Bunte July 2, 1933
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
John A. Businger
Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912
Laurence R. Buxbaum March 9, 1942
Howard C. Cahoon, Jr December 31, 1944
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
Angelo R. Cataldo November 12, 1917
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Rudy Chmura March 21, 1932
Steve T. Chmura March 29, 1928
John F. Coffey February 7, 1918
Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. September 18, 1918
James G. Collins August 2, 1946
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
Edward W. Connelly August 2, 1919
James S. Conway July 4, 1930
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
Gilbert W. Cox, Jr February 28, 1933
James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
Thomas E. Creighton February 1, 1922
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
John F. Cusack October 5, 1937
Joseph S. Daly October 26, 1931
Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940
Richard H. Demers January 19, 1928
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
William J. Dignan September 28, 1926
Robert F. Donovan September 13, 1936
Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
Dennis J. Duffin November 24, 1930
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
Albert E. Elwell October 29, 1899
Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr April 18, 1934
John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938
Richard F. Finnigan September 27, 1936
Charles Flaherty (politician) October 13, 1938
Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936
Peter Y. Flynn 1940
Barney Frank March 31, 1940
Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921
Anthony Michael Gallugi May 16, 1948
Edward F. Galotti May 11, 1925
Ann Gannett November 7, 1916
Joseph Garczynski, Jr February 14, 1927
Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926
Robert W. Gillette September 1, 1934
Barbara Gray October 11, 1926
Henry Grenier December 9, 1924
Edward J. Grimley, Jr December 26, 1943
Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913
Paul Guzzi June 17, 1942
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
Norris W. Harris March 16, 1915
Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925
Jonathan Healy October 10, 1945
Iris Holland September 30, 1920
Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939
James P. Hurrell March 1, 1944
Daniel L. Joyce, Jr May 14, 1934
Richard Kendall August 21, 1934
George Keverian June 3, 1931
Arthur M. Khoury February 5, 1940
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
John G. King (politician) November 30, 1942
Mel King October 20, 1928
William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928
Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927
Nickolas Lambros January 9, 1933
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
David Lane (Massachusetts politician) July 6, 1927
Peter H. Lappin September 25, 1938
Michael E. McLaughlin October 27, 1945
David J. Lionett October 3, 1943
Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
Charles W. Long August 14, 1940
John J. Long December 10, 1927
John Loring 1926
Garreth J. Lynch March 13, 1943
Frederick M. MacDonald August 3, 1924
Charles A. MacKenzie, Jr February 4, 1919
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
Thomas H. D. Mahoney November 4, 1913
M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
Clifford Marshall December 14, 1937
Peter L. Masnik March 13, 1942
Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926
Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932
Robert E. McCarthy January 12, 1940
Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941
Terrence P. McCarthy August 12, 1941
Edward A. McColgan March 20, 1932
Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
Charles M. McGowan November 13, 1923
Richard M. McGrath April 4, 1931
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
John C. McNeil June 8, 1945
David J. Mofenson February 7, 1943
Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
Thomas C. Norton December 11, 1934
James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919
Kenneth M. O'Brien February 5, 1951
Henry J. O'Donnell March 13, 1940
James E. O'Leary April 7, 1933
Thomas P. O'Neill III 1944
Carl R. Ohlson June 4, 1925
O. Roland Orlandi March 25, 1936
Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician) July 6, 1937
Robert Owens October 7, 1946
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
Robert G. Phelan March 19, 1933
Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915
Robert C. Reynolds November 6, 1934
William G. Robinson March 10, 1926
Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr November 16, 1917
Jon Rotenberg October 21, 1947
Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
John Rucho November 22, 1922
William H. Ryan July 17, 1938
George Sacco July 19, 1936
Angelo Scaccia September 29, 1942
Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914
Joseph Scelsi June 4, 1915
Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
Emanuel Serra June 12, 1945
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916
Edward Shortell August 21, 1916
Richard R. Silva March 13, 1922
Thomas G. Simons January 21, 1942
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923
William J. Spence May 4, 1930
George R. Sprague June 19, 1938
William A. Starzec October 14, 1918
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Daniel C. Towse December 5, 1924
Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920
Carlton M. Viveiros December 4, 1938
Henry A. Walker December 7, 1919
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
George L. Woods, Jr March 28, 1925
George Chester Young September 18, 1912

See also

References
  1. "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  2. "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
  3. "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
  4. 1973–1974 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1973 – via Internet Archive.
  5. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1973" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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