1969–1970 Massachusetts legislature

The 166th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1969 and 1970 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.[4]

166th
Massachusetts General Court
←165th 167th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 5, 1968
Senate
Members40
PresidentMaurice A. Donahue (2nd Hampden district)
Majority LeaderKevin B. Harrington
Majority WhipMario Umana
Minority LeaderJohn Francis Parker
Minority WhipWilliam D. Weeks
Party controlDemocrat[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerDavid M. Bartley
Majority LeaderThomas W. McGee
Majority WhipPaul F. Murphy
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipGeorge W. Shattuck
Party controlDemocrat[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 1969 (1969-01-01) – August 25, 1969 (1969-08-25)
2ndJanuary 7, 1970 (1970-01-07) – August 25, 1970 (1970-08-25)[3]
Maurice A. Donahue
Maurice Donahue, Senate president.
David M. Bartley
David Bartley, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1969.

Senators
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk
 John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924
James F. Burke September 7, 1914
Robert L. Cawley July 30, 1934
Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934
John J. Conte May 3, 1930
James DeNormandie November 10, 1907
Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936
Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918
Daniel J. Foley April 6, 1921
Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915
George D. Hammond October 29, 1906
Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911
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
David H. Locke August 4, 1927
Ronald Conrad MacKenzie May 3, 1934
Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912
James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930
Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922
George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924
Joe Moakley April 27, 1927
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927
John Francis Parker May 29, 1907
Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918
John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935
Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910
William I. Randall September 13, 1915
James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911
William L. Saltonstall May 14, 1927
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, 1924

Representatives
portrait name [5] date of birth [6] district [6]
 James A. Adams December 24, 1923
Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 10th Bristol
 David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929
Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. August 23, 1942
Robert B. Ambler [7] 1927
John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901
Robert S. Aronson July 3, 1920
Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905
Roger Sumner Babb 1935
Jack Backman[7] April 26, 1922
Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914
David M. Bartley February 9, 1935
Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930
Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927
Louis Peter Bertonazzi October 9, 1933
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
George Bourque 1913
John Jerome Bowes February 25, 1917
James John Bowler July 18, 1923
John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907
John R. Buckley 1932
Robert C. Buell April 23, 1931
Nicholas J. Buglione 1932
William Bulger February 2, 1934
Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911
Thomas Bussone September 20, 1912
Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916
Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923
William A. Carey January 28, 1920
Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919
Daniel William Carney [7] August 17, 1925
Emmett J. Cauley February 28, 1903
Paul J. Cavanaugh February 22, 1936
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
Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910
H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929
William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922
James S. Conway July 4, 1930
Francis X. Coppinger March 12, 1935
Paul J. Corriveau July 3, 1930
Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927
Gilbert W. Cox, Jr February 28, 1933
James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919
Robert Creedon November 13, 1942
Thomas E. Creighton February 1, 1922
Paul W. Cronin March 14, 1938
Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917
Michael John Daly July 18, 1940
Richard W. Daly March 25, 1936
Alan Paul Danovitch September 17, 1940
Joseph Del Grosso July 25, 1904
John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930
Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930
Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936
Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912
Anthony R. DiFruscia June 5, 1940
George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919
John F. Dolan September 7, 1922
Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925
Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926
Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933
Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early January 31, 1933
Charles F. Engdahl July 3, 1921
Seymour F. Epstein November 7, 1919
Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929
Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr April 18, 1934
Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
John J. Finnegan July 21, 1938
Irving Fishman March 29, 1921
Charles Flaherty (politician) October 13, 1938
Michael F. Flaherty Sr. September 6, 1936
Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929
Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920
David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933
Bruce N. Freeman March 4, 1921
Maurice E. Frye, Jr February 6, 1921
Edward F. Galotti May 11, 1925
Ann Gannett November 7, 1916
Donald R. Gaudette December 16, 1926
T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914
J. Laurence Golden June 10, 1933
Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930
James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911
Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913
Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911
Barry T. Hannon November 21, 1935
Walter J. Hannon September 4, 1931
Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936
Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921
J. Edmond Harris November 17, 1916
David E. Harrison June 19, 1933
Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925
Michael E. Haynes[8] May 9, 1927
Winston Healy October 20, 1937
Theodore M. Herman October 5, 1919
Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938
William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925
Franklin W. Holgate [8] May 3, 1929
Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899
Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939
John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909
John Janas September 4, 1910
Daniel L. Joyce, Jr May 14, 1934
Francis M. Keane April 8, 1933
Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927
F. Leo Kenney November 15, 1902
Walter T. Kerr May 20, 1918
George Keverian June 3, 1931
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917
William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928
Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923
Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921
Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915
Raymond M. LaFontaine May 18, 1927
Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936
Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917
Francis C. Lapointe January 13, 1939
J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940
Arthur Joseph Lewis, Jr. September 3, 1934
David Samuel Liederman April 26, 1935
Martin A. Linsky August 28, 1940
Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932
Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916
Michael J. Lombardi May 27, 1917
Charles W. Long August 14, 1940
John J. Long December 10, 1927
John C. Losch March 23, 1932
Charles A. MacKenzie, Jr February 4, 1919
William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934
Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940
Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922
Charles Mann April 27, 1935
M. Joseph Manning September 23, 1924
Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929
Clifford Marshall December 14, 1937
Frank J. Matrango July 19, 1926
Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr. October 28, 1909
Anthony P. McBride August 28, 1932
Peter C. McCarthy September 8, 1941
Edward A. McColgan March 20, 1932
Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924
Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918
John Austin Shaw McGlennon August 10, 1935
John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922
Charles M. McGowan November 13, 1923
Allan McGuane July 26, 1928
Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914
John F. Melia June 5, 1915
Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925
John J. Mooney August 14, 1930
Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921
Louis J. Morini October 8, 1907
Paul F. Murphy October 14, 1932
Paul Maurice Murphy February 24, 1932
Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921
John J. Navin September 9, 1915
Mary B. Newman February 15, 1909 2nd Middlesex
 James R. Nolen April 17, 1933
Nils L. Nordberg November 6, 1934
Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906
James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919
John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937
Norton Cornelius O'Brien April 9, 1907
Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910
David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924
Philip Conroy O'Donnell July 29, 1915
Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936
Carl R. Ohlson June 4, 1925
John Olver September 3, 1936
Bernard Paquette February 2, 1919
Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault October 27, 1915
William A. Pickett June 10, 1935
Angelo Picucci April 12, 1915
Vincent J. Piro 1931
Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 13, 1915
Harry A. S. Read November 18, 1936
William Reinstein March 26, 1929
Robert C. Reynolds November 6, 1934
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
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917
William H. Ryan July 17, 1938
George Sacco July 19, 1936
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
Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931
Joseph J. Semensi March 6, 1923
I. Edward Serlin August 21, 1912
George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916
H. James Shea Jr. December 10, 1939
C. Vincent Shea November 20, 1916
Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934
Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927
Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923
Alan Sisitsky June 4, 1942
John J. Slater Jr. November 27, 1925
Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919
George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902
William J. Spence May 4, 1930
John F. St. Cyr January 8, 1936
Kevin C. Sullivan
Charles Tagman
A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915
Arthur Tobin May 22, 1930
John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909
Daniel C. Towse December 5, 1924
George E. Twomey February 3, 1920
Robert A. Vigneau November 4, 1920
Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936
Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923
Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925
Norman S. Weinberg 1919
Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926
Richard L. Wood
George L. Woods, Jr March 28, 1925
George Chester Young September 18, 1912
Bruce H. Zeiser
Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

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. 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
  6. "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
  8. 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
  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1968), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1969, hdl:2452/43460
  • "Democrats Gain Firm Control Of Massachusetts Legislature", New York Times, November 8, 1968
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1969). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40799.
  • John F. Parker (1985), "High Drama at the State House: 'The House Cut' (Feb. 25, 1970)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
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