1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature

The 158th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1953 and 1954 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Charles Gibbons served as speaker of the House.[4]

158th
Massachusetts General Court
←157th 159th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 4, 1952
Senate
Members40
PresidentRichard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerCharles Gibbons (22nd Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 7, 1953 (1953-01-07) – July 4, 1953 (1953-07-04)
2ndJanuary 6, 1954 (1954-01-06) – June 11, 1954 (1954-06-11)
+ 1-day extra session[3]
Richard Furbush
Richard Furbush, Senate president.
Charles Gibbons
Charles Gibbons, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1953.

Senators
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Paul Achin 1st Middlesex
 John Adams May 30, 1915
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
Alfred B. Cenedella Jr.
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921
James J. Corbett November 27, 1896
Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924
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
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
William Joseph Keenan
Hastings Keith November 22, 1915
Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
Daniel Francis O'Brien
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926
Daniel Rudsten
Elizabeth Ann Stanton May 27, 1909
Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878
Richard Treadway June 5, 1913

Representatives
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester
 Julius Ansel April 27, 1908
Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893
Ernest W. April January 15, 1915
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
John George Asiaf June 30, 1900
John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878
Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889
James C. Bayley October 28, 1908
Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888
John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916
Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910
Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905
Samuel Joseph Boudreau
Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901
Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901
G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900
Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
William Joseph Brickley Jr.
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
John D. Brown January 30, 1900
John Brox November 16, 1910
James A. Burke March 30, 1910
Pasquale Caggiano August 31, 1909
Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912
Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886
Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915
Richard Caples December 23, 1921
Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920
Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
Francis X. Casey
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911
Philip Aloysius Chapman
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
Stephen Thomas Chmura August 25, 1916
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894
Harry Coltun
George Raymand Como July 3, 1912
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
John Francis Cremens
Gladys Gertrude Crockett December 1, 1895
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
John A. Davis May 9, 1912
Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910
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
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919
Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899
Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879
Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896
Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903
John Joseph Dwyer
Arthur H. Dykeman
Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881
Anthony J. Farin
C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921
Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894
Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903
Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
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
C. Henry Glovsky March 26, 1918
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
Francis Appleton Harding 1908
Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902
William E. Hays November 28, 1903
James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927
Christian A. Herter Jr. January 29, 1919
Paul L. Hinckley August 16, 1910
James Alan Hodder
Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907
Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
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
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
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
Abraham Herbert Kahalas
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Henry E. Keenan
William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921
Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912
James H. Kelly October 15, 1919
Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909
Thomas E. Key
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
William James Kingston October 17, 1909
William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897
Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924
Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893
James R. Lawton October 20, 1925
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
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921
Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918
John P. McMorrow September 19, 1926
Augustus Gardner Means June 8, 1925
Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
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
Chester W. Nelson
Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922
William F. Nourse September 12, 1922
James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925
John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917
James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922
Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914
John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916
Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921
Frank B. Oliveira
Anthony Parenzo
Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914
Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917
Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917
Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901
Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907
Harold Putnam February 15, 1916
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
George E. Rawson December 6, 1886
Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896
Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887
Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893
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
Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
J. Roger Sisson August 14, 1921
Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909
Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918
George T. Smith March 18, 1888
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
Leo Sontag August 16, 1922
Franklin Sturgis Jr. October 18, 1883
William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
Clarence F. Telford
John F. Thompson May 20, 1920
Irene Thresher July 6, 1900
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924
Eino Oliver Toko
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Philip Anthony Tracy
Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
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
Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905
Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892
Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883
David B. Williams January 7, 1919
Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918
Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893
Marcus Newell Wright
John Yerxa April 23, 1904
Arthur Eaton Young
John F. Zamparelli December 13, 1922
Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

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. Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove. 1953-1954 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1953" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature.
  • Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1953, hdl:2452/238757
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  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1953, hdl:2452/50976
  • Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1954, hdl:2452/50977
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