1965–1966 Massachusetts legislature

The 164th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1965 and 1966 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and John Davoren served as speaker of the House.[4] On April 22, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address to a joint session of the General Court after meeting with Massachusetts Governor John Volpe.[5] In the same month, Volpe filed a request for legislation from the state legislature that defined schools with nonwhite enrollments greater than 50 percent to be imbalanced and granted the State Board of Education the power to withhold state funds from any school district in the state that was found to have racial imbalance, which Volpe would sign into law the following August.[6][7][8]

164th
Massachusetts General Court
←163rd 165th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 6, 1965 (1965-01-06) – September 7, 1966 (1966-09-07) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentMaurice A. Donahue
Majority LeaderKevin B. Harrington
Minority LeaderPhilip A. Graham
Party controlDemocrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn Davoren
Majority LeaderRobert H. Quinn
Majority WhipTheophile Jean DesRoches
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipThomas M. Newth
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Maurice A. Donahue
Maurice Donahue, Senate president.
John Davoren
John Davoren, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1965-1966.

Senators
portrait name [4] date of birth [9] district [9]
 Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk
 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918
James F. Burke September 7, 1914
Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
John J. Conte May 3, 1930
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924
James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910
George D. Hammond October 29, 1906
Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929
John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921
James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926
George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929
Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910
James J. Long November 15, 1913
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918
Vite Pigaga
John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907
Mario Umana May 5, 1914
William X. Wall July 1, 1904
Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914
William D. Weeks May 9, 1926
Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives
portrait name [4] date of birth [9] district [9]
 Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 5th Bristol
 David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929
Robert B. Ambler [10] 1927
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
Jack Backman[10] April 26, 1922
Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914
David L. Barrett February 4, 1920
John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924
David M. Bartley February 9, 1935
Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
John T. Berry November 20, 1924
Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923
Donald T. Bliss 1937
Belden Bly September 29, 1914
Stanley Joseph Bocko August 26, 1920
Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922
Royal L. Bolling June 19, 1920
Joseph G. Bradley June 14, 1930
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
John R. Buckley 1932
Charles J. Buffone 1919
William Bulger February 2, 1934
Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931
George G. Burke August 3, 1932
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
William Francis Butters
Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899
William A. Carey January 28, 1920
Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919
Daniel William Carney [10] August 17, 1925
Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920
Paul A. Cataldo May 15, 1935
Michael Catino February 21, 1904
Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903
Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936
Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934
Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903
Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901
Stephen Thomas Chmura August 25, 1916
John George Clark February 26, 1902
Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905
Abraham L. Cohn May 24, 1898
Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. September 18, 1918
Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
James Francis Condon February 4, 1899
Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
George Thomas Contalonis
Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924
James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
John J. Cronin August 1, 1910
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
John Davoren July 27, 1915
John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902
Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919
Thomas Henry Doherty Jr. August 8, 1930
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
John F. Donovan Jr. August 21, 1931
James P. Downey January 9, 1911
Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909
Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926
Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918
Arnold Irving Epstein April 5, 1920
Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
Manuel Faria March 7, 1906
Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr April 18, 1934
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926
Irving Fishman March 29, 1921
John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918
Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929
Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920
David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933
Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917
Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915
John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922
Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928
Lester J. Gates
T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914
Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911
Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930
James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911
Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913
Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
David E. Harrison June 19, 1933
Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925
Michael E. Haynes[11] May 9, 1927
Winston Healy October 20, 1937
Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938
William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925
Franklin W. Holgate [11] May 3, 1929
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939
Charles Iannello April 25, 1906
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
John Janas September 4, 1910
Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926
Katherine Kane April 12, 1935
Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927
James H. Kelly October 15, 1919
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball June 6, 1918
Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928
William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928
Benjamin Klebanow November 2, 1900
Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940
Peter John Levanti March 19, 1903
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
John J. Long December 10, 1927
William Longworth August 17, 1914
Joseph S. Loughman January 11, 1928
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903
Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940
Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
James Robert McMahon Jr.
John F. Melia June 5, 1915
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
William James Moran June 24, 1921
Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921
Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927
Edwin Herbert Morse January 7, 1902
Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910
James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922
Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932
Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
Patrick William Nee November 22, 1938
Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911
James R. Nolen April 17, 1933
Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906
James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919
John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937
Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910
Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936
Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
Albert P. Pettoruto September 29, 1915
George William Porter November 6, 1885
Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928
Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 13, 1915
Paul de Hoff Reed Jr.
Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920
Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912
Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912
William G. Robinson March 10, 1926
J. Hilary Rockett January 16, 1935
George Rogers (Massachusetts politician) August 2, 1933
Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr November 16, 1917
Harold Rosen (politician) 1906
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
George Sacco July 19, 1936
Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893
Duane Thomas Sargisson
Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906
Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914
Frederic W. Schlosstein, Jr March 17, 1923
Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911
John W. Sears December 18, 1930
Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927
Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933
Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934
Aaron M. I. Shinberg
Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914
Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
George William Spartichino June 11, 1924
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918
Chandler Harrison Stevens
Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892
A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915
Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888
John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920
David Spence Tobin March 16, 1939
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Joseph Thomas Travaline
Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905
Elbert Tuttle August 19, 1931
George E. Twomey February 3, 1920
John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
George B. Walsh March 21, 1907
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916
Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
James G. Wheeler
Arthur Williams December 14, 1915
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924
Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

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. 1965–1966 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1965 – via Internet Archive.
  5. Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0029138656.
  6. Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0029138656.
  7. Formisano, Ronald P. (2004) [1991]. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0807855263.
  8. "The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  9. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1965", Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1965, hdl:2452/796343
  10. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
  11. Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

Further reading
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1965). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40797.
  • "Massachusetts Legislature Votes to Legalize Birth Control for the Married", New York Times, May 5, 1966
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