1931–1932 Massachusetts legislature

147th
Massachusetts General Court
147th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated January 18, 2024

The 147th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1931 and 1932.^[1]

Senators

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Chester Willard Allen
Gaspar G. Bacon	March 7, 1886	6th Suffolk
Malcolm Lawrie Bell	November 30, 1890
Albert C. Bray
Conde Brodbine	April 4, 1897
John P. Buckley	June 12, 1889
William S. Conroy	October 2, 1877
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Elbert M. Crockett	August 14, 1871
J. Bradford Davis	September 26, 1889
Joseph Finnegan
Erland F. Fish	December 7, 1883
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Frank Hurley	March 9, 1900
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
Frederick E. Judd
Roger Keith
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
Joseph William Monahan
James G. Moran	May 2, 1870
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
Christian Nelson
George H. Nelson
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Edward H. Nutting	July 6, 1869
Henry Parkman Jr.	April 26, 1894
Theodore Robinson Plunkett	May 10, 1882
James Conlan Scanlan	December 18, 1896
William F. Shanahan
Charles Abbot Stevens
James J. Twohig	September 26, 1886
Max Ulin
Michael James Ward	September 19, 1899
Charles C. Warren
James E. Warren
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Henry Achin Jr.	June 30, 1883	14th Middlesex
Augustine Airola
Charles W. Ames	March 10, 1860
George P. Anderson	February 19, 1873
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
William Brooks Baker	January 10, 1879
William H. Barker	December 20, 1892
Philip Barnet	December 2, 1892
Mary Livermore Barrows	June 30, 1877
Albert L. Bartlett	June 1, 1851
Thomas R. Bateman	October 11, 1878
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Leo Birmingham	April 14, 1893
Frederick H. Bowser Jr.
Emma E. Brigham	June 10, 1872
George Francis Brooks	August 23, 1856
Harry Dunlap Brown
William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
Charles Bruce
Albert W. Bullock	April 18, 1872
John K. Burgess	1863
Arthur I. Burgess	October 13, 1894
Albert H. Burnham
Marion Cowan Burrows	May 7, 1865
Fred L. Butler
Horace T. Cahill	December 12, 1894
Jerome Joseph Cahill
Thomas Francis Carroll
William Casey	November 20, 1884
Abraham B. Casson
Charles Thomas Cavanagh	June 12, 1893
Edward Michael Cawley
Chester W. Chase	August 27, 1885
Charles Daniel Chevalier
John Patrick Clancy
Francis Peter Clark	August 22, 1896
James W. Clark
Frank Clarkson	June 21, 1877
Daniel J. Coakley	November 18, 1880
Harold E. Cole
John T. Comerford	June 8, 1887
John J. Concannon
John Patrick Connolly	June 28, 1894	9th Suffolk
William Patrick Corbett
Timothy J. Costello
Frank Bernard Coughlin	January 11, 1891
Richard D. Crockwell	October 23, 1886
Timothy James Cronin
Arthur Payne Crosby	August 1, 1879
Nelson B. Crosby	June 20, 1871
John J. Crowley	September 20, 1900
Francis Daniel Dailey
Daniel P. Day
Harry E. Day
Ernest J. Dean	April 5, 1883
John S. Derham
Louis N. M. DesChenes	April 7, 1872
Paul A. Dever	January 15, 1903
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
William Charles Dolan
Joseph H. Downey	December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
William Henry Doyle
Harold R. Duffie
Norman Le Roy Duncan
Eugene Patrick Durgin	December 12, 1884
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
Archibald M. Estabrook
Henry A. Estabrook	April 22, 1850
Bruno M. Findeisen
Bernard Finkelstein	July 4, 1887
Peter J. Fitzgerald	September 13, 1899
John Ford	January 17, 1871
Winfred F. Forward
John P. Gaffney
Owen Ambrose Gallagher	May 24, 1902
Arthur F. Ganley
Tony Garofano	May 28, 1885
George A. Gilman	August 16, 1880
Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
J. Henry Goguen	March 8, 1899
Arthur Goulart
Lewis S. Gray
Joseph B. Grossman	July 15, 1892
James E. Hagan	January 25, 1902
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Ralph N. Hamilton	November 16, 1898
Arthur Alexander Hansen
Louis E. Hathaway	June 28, 1863
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
James W. Hennigan Sr.	1890
Christian Herter	March 28, 1895
William P. Hickey	November 17, 1871
John P. Higgins
William Anthony Higgins	July 23, 1897
Charles Sumner Holden
John Holmes	November 27, 1882
Herbert P. Houghton
William T. Hudson
John E. Hurley	November 2, 1906
Alfred Wesley Ingalls
John Joseph Irwin
Felix Irzyk
Victor Francis Jewett
Richard E. Johnston	March 22, 1873
Arthur Westgate Jones	January 11, 1873
John Alfred Jones
William A. Jones	March 27, 1885
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Francis Kearney
William H. Keating
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley	December 25, 1897
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Thomas S. Kennedy
John V. Kimball	July 17, 1875
William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
John Quincy Knowles	May 21, 1895
Wilfrid J. Lamoureux	December 13, 1869
Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
Elmer E. Lane
Robert L. Lee
Robert Vincent Lee
Arnold Leonard
Marcus J. Levins
Joseph W. Leyden
Lester Blaine Libbey
Joseph A. Logan
Clarence S. Luitwieler
John P. Lyons	June 24, 1879
Harold Wayne Macauley
Frank E. MacLean
John Whitman MacLeod
William Francis Madden	January 4, 1897
John V. Mahoney	July 20, 1889
Thomas F. Malloy
Stephen Andrew Manning
Felix A. Marcella
Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
Paul G. Martel
Dennis F. McCarthy
William Henry McCarthy
Elmer L. McCulloch
Timothy J. McDonough
Frank Joseph McFarland
Fred Joseph McGuinness
Owen D. McLellan
George McLeod
George C. McMenimen
Anthony A. McNulty
James Philip Meehan	June 25, 1893
William H. Melley	May 18, 1903
Harry Carrol Mohr
Patrick J. Moore	December 22, 1863
Daniel F. Moriarty
John Francis Murphy
Patrick Francis Nestor
Frank Daniel O'Brien	April 25, 1905
Michael T. O'Brien	December 3, 1868
Daniel J. O'Connor Jr.
Daniel W. O'Connor	March 12, 1877
James H. O'Dea
Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
John Thomas O'Neill	August 22, 1900
Ralph Emerson Otis	January 16, 1890
Herman Pehrsson
Francis H. Perry	June 24, 1855
Tycho Mouritz Petersen	August 29, 1892
Louis Pfeiffer
Herbert Wilson Porter
Albert L. Potter
C. F. Nelson Pratt	February 4, 1891
William Patrick Prendergast
Francis E. Rafter	November 14, 1892
John J. Reardon
Josiah B. Reed
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Victor E. Rolander	March 8, 1871
Joseph D. Rolfe	May 17, 1893
Elmer Gould Royce
Samuel Rushton
Leverett Saltonstall	September 1, 1892
Edward Julius Sandberg	October 21, 1866
John Sauter
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Frank O. Scott
William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
Herbert Parker Philip Shaughnessy
Charles H. Shaylor
Howard Samuel Shepard	September 18, 1865
Philip Sherman
Leslie W. Sims
Harry D. Sisson	January 9, 1863
Charles Henry Slowey
B. Farnham Smith
Dexter Avery Snow	January 3, 1890
Norman Leon Snow
Julius H. Soble	March 1, 1906
Ernest H. Sparrell
Arthur T. Squires
Philip Huntley Stacy
Richard H. Stacy	August 18, 1864
Lemuel W. Standish
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
Alexander Francis Sullivan
Lewis R. Sullivan Jr.	March 9, 1900
Clyde Henry Swan
Martin Swanson	July 20, 1872
Frank A. Teele	August 25, 1866
Joseph E. Theberge	April 27, 1903
William Franklin Thomas Jr.
William R. Thomas	September 24, 1871
Jabez P. Thompson
Rupert C. Thompson
George Henry Tinker
Joseph Walton Tuttle Jr.	August 20, 1894
George M. Underwood
Herbert W. Urquhart	October 19, 1883
Eliot Wadsworth	1876
Ira C. Ward	March 7, 1862
Andrew C. Warner
Kendrick Harlow Washburn	July 29, 1893
Harold B. Webber
Louis A. Webster
Patrick J. Welsh	October 8, 1893
John J. Whalen	June 5, 1876
Ralph Wheelright
Frank Lewis Whipple
Joseph C. White	1899
Ernest Albert White
Sydney M. Williams
John Chester Wilson	August 14, 1889
Carl A. Woekel
Charles Frederick Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman
Michael Zack

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References

1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1931.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1931" (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: 1931, hdl:2452/265584
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1932, hdl:2452/265585
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1931, hdl:2452/62555
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1932, hdl:2452/62556

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[Officials-1] 1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1931.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1931" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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