1927–1928 Massachusetts legislature

145th
Massachusetts General Court
145th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated March 17, 2024

The 145th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1927 and 1928.^[1]

Senators

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Charles H. Annis	January 12, 1869
Gaspar G. Bacon	March 7, 1886	6th Suffolk
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Robert E. Bigney
Thomas H. Bilodeau	February 3, 1885
Alvin E. Bliss
John B. Cashman
George Dudley Chamberlain
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Edward J. Cox
Hugh Cregg	1888
Elbert M. Crockett	August 14, 1871
Warren Chapman Daggett	May 10, 1868
J. Bradford Davis	September 26, 1889
George B. Farrington
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
Harvey A. Gallup	October 16, 1869
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Charles H. Hartshorn
William Ignatius Hennessey
Charles Ward Johnson	March 8, 1894
Frederick E. Judd
Clarence P. Kidder
Henry L. Kincaide
Daniel Aloysius Martin
Walter E. McLane
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
James J. Mulvey
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Walter Perham
George K. Pond
Edward Simoneau	April 24, 1890
John E. Thayer Jr.
Charles C. Warren
George M. Webber
Wellington Wells	April 18, 1868
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883	14th Middlesex
George Irving Adams
George B. Ager	December 30, 1860
Augustine Airola
William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
Harry Benjamin Albro	January 21, 1887
George L. L. Allen
Charles W. Ames	March 10, 1860
George P. Anderson	February 19, 1873
J. Willis Andrews
Thomas N. Ashton	April 27, 1884
Harrison H. Atwood
Clinton E. Austin
Edward Avery
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
William A. Baldwin	January 18, 1874
William H. Barker	December 20, 1892
Elliott R. Barker
Benjamin Barnes	October 19, 1880
Edwin N. Bartlett
Thomas R. Bateman	October 11, 1878
John E. Beck	May 10, 1869
William A. Bennett	March 7, 1887
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Leo Birmingham	April 14, 1893
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
Harold M. Bradbury	July 9, 1886
Frank A. Brainerd	May 6, 1870
George E. Briggs	May 3, 1873
Conde Brodbine	April 4, 1897
Martha N. Brookings	November 16, 1881
George Francis Brooks	August 23, 1856
John P. Buckley	June 12, 1889
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
John K. Burgess	1863
Garrett H. Byrne	November 29, 1897
Julius F. Carman	August 7, 1861
Thomas Harold Carr
William Casey	November 20, 1884
Abraham B. Casson
Jeremiah K. Chandler	September 30, 1863
Chester W. Chase	August 27, 1885
Francis Peter Clark	August 22, 1896
Ezra W. Clark	October 12, 1842
Maynard Clemons	December 11, 1866
Henry Cloutier
Daniel J. Coakley	November 18, 1880
Emerson J. Coldwell	April 29, 1888
D. Herbert Cook	June 2, 1851
Azarie Z. Coutu
Francis X. Coyne	March 15, 1892
Arthur Payne Crosby	August 1, 1879
Frank D. Crowley
Thomas Charles Crowther	April 28, 1892
William J. Davison
Ernest J. Dean	April 5, 1883
Hiram Nichols Dearborn	December 21, 1867
George A. Dennett
John S. Derham
Louis N. M. DesChenes	April 7, 1872
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
Oscar U. Dionne	March 3, 1897
Sylvia Donaldson	July 12, 1849
Robert W. Dow	July 15, 1868
Andrew P. Doyle	August 15, 1869
Charles R. Doyle
William L. DuBois	July 31, 1892
Harold R. Duffie
Horace E. Dunkle
Henry T. G. Dyson	October 4, 1858
Frank W. Eaton	February 22, 1871
Louis Ellenwood
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
Henry A. Estabrook	April 22, 1850
Archibald M. Estabrook
Howard Fall
Joseph Finnegan
Peter J. Fitzgerald	September 13, 1899
Maurice E. Foley	February 8, 1893
Charles R. Foote	July 9, 1865
John Ford	January 17, 1871
Isidore H. Fox
John P. Gaffney
Owen Ambrose Gallagher	May 24, 1902
Arthur F. Ganley
Tony Garofano	May 28, 1885
Hugh H. Garrity	May 4, 1883
Félix Gatineau	November 12, 1857
Charles E. Gerrish
George A. Gilman	August 16, 1880
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
Patrick E. Granfield	March 17, 1894
Louis L. Green
Fred D. Griggs
Joseph B. Grossman	July 15, 1892
Edward J. Gurry
James E. Hagan	January 25, 1902
C. Wesley Hale	February 13, 1872
Albert Harrison Hall
Lemuel C. Hall
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Bernard F. Hanrahan	July 27, 1875
Arthur Alexander Hansen
Ernest W. Haskell
Louis E. Hathaway	June 28, 1863
Martin Hays	October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
William H. Hearn
Thomas J. Hefferon
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
Francis J. Hickey
Lyman A. Hodgdon
Charles Sumner Holden
Robert H. J. Holden
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
John Holmes	November 27, 1882
Charles H. Holmes
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Horace W. Hosie	February 2, 1864
Joseph L. Hurley	April 20, 1898
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
John Joseph Irwin
George Frederick James
Victor Francis Jewett
G. Adolph Johnson	September 9, 1889	17th Worcester
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
Richard E. Johnston	March 22, 1873
John Alfred Jones
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
John Kendall Joy Jr.
Roland M. Keith	March 16, 1847
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Thomas S. Kennedy
William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
John Fenderson Kyes
Alfred Napoleon LaBrecque
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux	December 13, 1869
Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
Joseph Lawrence Larson
Arnold Leonard
Robert Sumner Leonard
Joseph W. Leyden
Charles J. Little
Joseph A. Logan
Martin Lomasney	December 3, 1859
Clarence S. Luitwieler
Allan Barker MacGregor
James E. Mahler
Joseph Martin	February 18, 1867
William Henry McCarthy
Richard J. McCormick	August 11, 1888
Elmer L. McCulloch
Willard Spaulding McKay
Bennett V. McLaughlin
George C. McMenimen
Anthony A. McNulty
Carroll Meins	October 22, 1892
Wilbert T. Moore
Daniel F. Moriarty
Patrick E. Murray	August 22, 1869
Patrick Francis Nestor
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
John J. O’Leary
Bernard J. O’Neil
Edwin Lawrence Olander	October 31, 1891
Frank Wellman Osborne
Ralph Emerson Otis	January 16, 1890
Herman Pehrsson
George Penshorn
Francis H. Perry	June 24, 1855
Joseph Earl Perry	December 30, 1884
Lewis Hilton Peters
Chester Arthur Pike
Albert L. Potter
Edgar F. Power
Walter G. Powers
C. F. Nelson Pratt	February 4, 1891
Francis E. Rafter	November 14, 1892
Harry C. Rice
Henry Francis Ripley
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Edward J. Robbins
Henry D. Rockwell
Leverett Saltonstall	September 1, 1892
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
John Sauter
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Frank O. Scott
John F. Scott
Richard D. Seamans
William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Charles H. Shaylor
William M. Silverman
Florence Slocomb	April 26, 1867	19th or 20th Worcester
Walter Herbert Snow
Ernest H. Sparrell
Lemuel W. Standish
Frank K. Stearns
Ralph Stevens
J. Sidney Stone
Lewis R. Sullivan	1874
Charles Sumner Sullivan Jr.
Edward J. Sullivan
Charles Symonds
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
J. Valentine Thomas
Rupert C. Thompson
Maurice J. Tobin	May 22, 1901
James A. Torrey	September 27, 1868
James J. Twohig	September 26, 1886
Herbert W. Urquhart	October 19, 1883
Eliot Wadsworth	1876
Wilford Almon Walker
Irving Everett Walker
Frank W. Warfield
Andrew C. Warner
James E. Warren
Kendrick Harlow Washburn	July 29, 1893
Slater Washburn
Harold B. Webber
William H. Wellen
Patrick J. Welsh	October 8, 1893
Ralph Wheelright
Renton Whidden
Carl A. Woekel
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Thomas J. Worrell	August 21, 1874
Willard Otis Wylie

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References

1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1927.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1927" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1927, hdl:2452/279547
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1928, hdl:2452/279548
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1927, hdl:2452/64539
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1928, hdl:2452/64540

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[Officials-1] 1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1927.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1927" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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