1947–1948 Massachusetts legislature

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.

155th
Massachusetts General Court
←154th 156th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1946
Senate
Members40
PresidentDonald W. Nicholson, Harris S. Richardson
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerFrederick Willis (10th Essex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1947 (1947-01-01) – July 1, 1947 (1947-07-01)
2ndJanuary 7, 1948 (1948-01-07) – June 19, 1948 (1948-06-19)[3]

State Senate

Districts

As established by Chapter 507 of the Acts of 1939. The state census of 1935 was the basis of the apportionment.

(*)Terminated. See Acts of 1927, chapter 321; Acts of 1938, chapter 240 and 455.

Senators
District [4] Portrait Senator[5] Date of birth [4] Party Hometown Notes
Berkshire
Michael H. Condron Democratic Pittsfield
Bristol First
Willard A. Ormsbee Republican Raynham Chairman, Aeronautics; chairman, Mercantile Affairs
Second
William Emmet White June 1, 1900 Democratic Fall River
Third
Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 Democratic New Bedford
Cape and Plymouth
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 Republican Wareham President of the Senate; chairman, Rules
Essex First
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Democratic Lynn
Second
J. Elmer Callahan Republican Salem Chairman, Constitutional Law
Third
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 Republican Rowley Chairman, State Administration
Fourth Philip K. Allen January 3, 1910 Republican Andover Chairman, Agriculture
Fifth
Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 Democratic Lawrence
Franklin and Hampshire
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 Republican Orange Chairman, Education; chairman, Public Health
Hampden First
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 Republican Springfield Chairman, Military Affairs and Public Safety
Second
William E. Nolen Democratic Holyoke
Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 Republican Northampton Chairman, Cities; chairman, Water Supply
Middlesex First
William C. Geary Democratic Lowell
Second
Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902 Republican Cambridge Chairman, Legal Affairs; chairman, Taxation
Third
Burton F. Faulkner Democratic Somerville
Fourth
Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 Republican Everett Chairman, Civil Service; chairman, Departmental Rules and Regulations
Fifth
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 Republican Waltham Chairman, Conservation; chairman, Power and Light
Sixth
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 Republican Winchester Chairman, Ways and Means
Seventh
George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 Republican Wakefield Chairman, Labor and Industries; chairman, Pensions
Middlesex and Norfolk
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 Republican Ashland Chairman, Public Lands; chairman, Public Welfare
Middlesex and Suffolk
Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 Republican Newton Chairman, Public Service
Norfolk First
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 Republican Quincy Chairman, Judiciary
Second
Mason Sears December 29, 1899 Republican Dedham Chairman, Election Laws
Norfolk and Plymouth
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Republican Weymouth Chairman, Bills in the Third Reading; chairman, Counties
Norfolk and Suffolk
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 Republican Brookline Chairman, Metropolitan Affairs
Plymouth
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 Republican Brockton Chairman, Engrossed Bills; chairman, Municipal Finance
Suffolk First
Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 Democratic Chelsea
Second
Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 Democratic Boston
Third
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 Republican Boston Chairman, Insurance
Fourth
John E. Powers November 10, 1910 Democratic Boston
Fifth
Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 Democratic Boston Minority Floor Leader
Sixth
Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 Democratic Boston
Seventh
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907 Democratic Boston
Worcester First
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Democratic Worcester
Second
Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 Republican Worcester Chairman, Banks and Banking
Third
George W. Stanton Democratic Fitchburg
Fourth
Joseph Simon Virostek Republican Douglas Chairman, Towns; chairman, Transportation
Worcester and Hampden
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 Republican Southbridge Chairman, 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 [5] date of birth [4] district [4]
 Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 Richard James Allen June 22, 1909
Horace Thurber Aplington
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Samuel Greenleaf Atkinson
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895
Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905
William B. Bailey December 11, 1892
Laurence H. Banks[6]
Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898
Norman S. Baxter
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
William Berthiaume
G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
Stanley John Borsa
Gerald Timothy Bowler
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
Philip Courtland Burr
Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914
Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875
Enrico Cappucci 1910
Ernest Westervelt Carman
Arthur B. Carney Jr.
John Henry Carroll
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
Daniel Casey May 7, 1890
Francis X. Casey
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
Philip Aloysius Chapman
William G. Clark Jr. May 6, 1912
David M. Cleary May 9, 1901
Thomas Francis Coady 1878
John F. Collins[7] July 20, 1919 11th Suffolk
 Dana S. Collins
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
Joseph T. Conley
Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916
Michael John Conway
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905
William A. Cowing January 6, 1878
Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894
Patrick Francis Cronin
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911
Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898
John G. Curley
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889
Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890
Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896
Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888
Howard Bernard Driscoll
Joseph Edward Duffy September 25, 1912
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
Andrew E. Faulkner September 23, 1913
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889
William J. Fitzsimons
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
John F. Foster
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
George Fuller July 24, 1893
John L. Gallant
Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901
Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915
Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892
George Greene March 7, 1897 12th Suffolk
 Francis G. Gregory
Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903
Jacob Hakala
James Edward Hannon
Francis Appleton Harding 1908
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
James Alan Hodder
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
C. Vernon Inett
William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897
Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
Jeremiah Kamens
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Clarence Karelitz
Warren Charles Karner
Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905
Thomas E. Key
Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909
Laurence W. Law
Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898
Louis Lobel August 10, 1911
C. Edwin Lofgren
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
Raymond Joseph Lord
Burton Elmer Loring
C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 10th Suffolk
 George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877
William Markland
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
George Francis Martin Jr.
Francis V. Matera
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
Frank D. McCarthy
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Elmer L. McCulloch
Samuel D. McLeod
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Sherman Miles December 5, 1882
Hugh Morton
Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907
Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899
George Bernard Murphy Jr.
Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890
Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917
Louis K. Nathanson 12th Suffolk
George Burkman Norton
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
Frank B. Oliveira
Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
Anthony Parenzo
Eben Parsons
Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878
Henry W. Pickford
Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862 2nd Franklin
 George William Porter November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903
Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899
Hallam Taylor Ring
Joseph D. Rivest
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Daniel Rudsten
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
Thomas Aloysius Scanlan
Raymond William Schlapp
William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875
A. John Serino March 13, 1906
Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879
John M. Shea December 8, 1902
Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897
Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
Margaret Spear August 10, 1882
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
Paul A. Sullivan
Ralph Warren Sullivan
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
Clarence F. Telford
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
Harold Edward Tivey
Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Talbot T. Tweedy
James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878
James T. Violette
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907
John Cummings Webster Jr.
Norman F. Wellen
John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881
Malcolm Stuart White
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905
John S. Whittemore
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Clarence A. Wood
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Arthur Eaton Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

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. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1947" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  5. 1947-1948 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905
  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 (1946), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1947, hdl:2452/43438
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1947). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40788.
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1947, hdl:2452/219469
  • Massachusetts, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1948, hdl:2452/219470
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1947, hdl:2452/55996
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1948, hdl:2452/55997
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