1937–1938 Massachusetts legislature

150th
Massachusetts General Court
150th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated July 16, 2024

The 150th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1937 and 1938.^[1]

Senators

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Frank David Babcock	August 16, 1877	4th Essex
Arthur Franklin Blanchard	January 27, 1883
David M. Brackman
Thomas H. Braden	September 11, 1874
Thomas M. Burke	May 30, 1898
Edward C. Carroll	December 15, 1893
Patrick Eugene Casey	September 24, 1886
Albert Cole	December 28, 1904
Walter L. Considine	August 7, 1900
Joseph R. Cotton	November 16, 1890
Laurence Curtis	September 3, 1893
Joseph P. Donahoe	September 18, 1891
Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
Angier Goodwin	January 30, 1881
William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn	June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
James W. Hennigan Sr.	1890
Arthur W. Hollis	April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Sybil Holmes	June 20, 1889
Jarvis Hunt (politician)	March 28, 1904
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
Joseph A. Langone Jr.	September 8, 1896
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
Joseph Patrick McCooey
William Henry McSweeney
James Philip Meehan	June 25, 1893
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
George G. Moyse	December 21, 1878
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
Edwin Lawrence Olander	October 31, 1891
Edmund S. Oppenheimer
Theodore Robinson Plunkett	May 10, 1882
Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
Michael H. Selzo
Chester T. Skibinski
George W. Stanton
Bernard Lucian Sullivan
Samuel H. Wragg	June 9, 1882

Representatives

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	14th Middlesex
William A. Akeroyd	October 24, 1883
Theodore Andrews	August 23, 1893
George T. Ashe	February 6, 1905
John Francis Aspell	July 8, 1906
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Edward P. Bacigalupo	October 19, 1897
William Brooks Baker	January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin	January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet	December 2, 1892
Frederick M. Barnicoat
Mary Livermore Barrows	June 30, 1877
Thomas Edmund Barry	May 14, 1899
Walter Ray Baylies	April 28, 1902
Wilfred P. Bazinet
Fred D. Beaudoin
James D. Bentley	February 6, 1884
Albert Bergeron	June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette	March 25, 1876
Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
Edward Boland	October 1, 1911
Rufus Hallowell Bond	December 24, 1896
Albert Lionel Bourgeois	June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker	April 17, 1899
Albert Ovila Boyer	May 27, 1908
G. Edward Bradley	October 21, 1906
Edward T. Brady	October 23, 1908
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom	June 25, 1899
Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
Clarence E. Buckley
Arthur I. Burgess	October 13, 1894
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician)	March 30, 1910
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
Horace T. Cahill	December 12, 1894
Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
Enrico Cappucci	1910
Andrew F. Carlin
Gustaf A. Carlson
Leo Edward Joseph Carney	November 16, 1899
Sydney G. Carpenter Jr.
Eddie D. Carson
Bernard P. Casey	July 29, 1894
Chester W. Chase	August 27, 1885
Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896
Frank Clarkson	June 21, 1877
Daniel H. Coakley Jr.	July 12, 1906
Andrew J. Coakley	November 6, 1906
John W. Coddaire Jr.
Edward A. Coffey	October 17, 1892
Samuel H. Cohen
John T. Comerford	June 8, 1887
Michael John Conway
Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
Francis X. Coyne	March 15, 1892
Thomas F. Coyne
John Joseph Craven	August 29, 1907
Nelson B. Crosby	June 20, 1871
Lawrence Harvard Davis
Hiram Nichols Dearborn	December 21, 1867
Oscar DeRoy
Leo E. Diehl
Thomas Patrick Dillon	February 19, 1901
Grover N. Dodge
John Patrick Doherty	March 27, 1906
Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
Fred Belding Dole	January 23, 1895
John Joseph Donahue	March 14, 1906
James P. Donnelly	February 26, 1890
Cornelius P. Donovan	March 15, 1895
Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
Joseph H. Downey	December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
Joseph Edward Duffy	September 25, 1912
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
Gustave William Everberg	June 24, 1890
Samuel Arthur Eyre
G. Farrington Fiske
Thomas A. Flaherty	December 21, 1898
Thomas J. Flannery	August 9, 1886
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Keith Falconer Fletcher	September 24, 1900
Cleon Francis Fobes
John J. Foley	January 25, 1888
Katherine A. Foley	May 10, 1889
Paul W. Foster
Douglass Brooks Francis
William R. Gilman
John J. Gilmartin	September 25, 1892
Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
John Halliwell	February 21, 1864
Thomas J. Hannon	December 9, 1900
Joseph J. Harnisch	December 28, 1883
William Henry Haskell
William Alexander Hastings	February 22, 1868
Lawrence Alanson Haworth	May 23, 1871
Jeremiah Joseph Healy	July 2, 1872
Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
Christian Herter	March 28, 1895
William Francis Higgins	June 16, 1899
William D. Hillis
Joseph Allan Hines
Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
Jackson J. Holtz
Daniel J. Honan	January 19, 1884
Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
Hugh C. Hunter
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
George A. Innes
Francis William Irwin	November 19, 1905
Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
William A. Jones	March 27, 1885
Michael H. Jordan	February 7, 1863
Anthony Julian	March 25, 1902
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
John Joseph Kerrigan Jr.
John V. Kimball	July 17, 1875
Rudolph King	November 2, 1887
William E. Kirkpatrick	November 12, 1901
John Quincy Knowles	May 21, 1895
Leo P. Landry	July 10, 1897
Thomas J. Lane	July 6, 1898
Charles Clifton Langille
John Whitin Lasell
George J. Leary
Thomas E. Linehan
Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr.	August 29, 1907
Clarence S. Luitwieler
William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
Philip J. Lynch
Donald Alexander MacDonald	February 21, 1893
Frank E. MacLean
Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
James Francis Mahoney	September 24, 1890
John Francis Manning	January 4, 1906
Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
Charles Joseph McCaffrey	January 16, 1898
Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
Elmer L. McCulloch
Daniel P. McGillicuddy
James J. McGrail
Hubert L. McLaughlin
George Francis McMahon
Roger Alton McNamara
Joseph A. Melley	March 1, 1902
Julian R. Merchant
Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
Daniel Joseph Minihan
John R. Mitchell
William E. Mooney
Charles H. Morrill	October 6, 1874
Albert Edward Morris	April 4, 1903
Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
John E. Murphy	February 13, 1900
John Joseph Murphy	August 28, 1892
Timothy Joseph Murphy	September 23, 1909
John M. Mutch
Eric A. Nelson	July 6, 1899
Michael J. Neville	October 19, 1899
Leo F. Nourse
Michael T. O'Brien	December 3, 1868
Joseph N. O'Kane	May 26, 1873
Tip O'Neill	December 9, 1912
George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
Otto B. Olsen
Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
David M. Owens Jr.
George Alanson Parker
James Austin Peckham
Tycho Mouritz Petersen	August 29, 1892
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
Frederick Henry Reinstein	April 14, 1899
George Edmund Rice	February 22, 1899
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
George Whiting Roberts
Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
Albert Rubin	January 15, 1872
William F. Runnells	February 18, 1865
Philip J. Russell Jr.
Charles H. Savage	January 7, 1893
Roland D. Sawyer	January 8, 1874
Louis James Scanlon	March 25, 1899
Martin Robert Schofield	September 28, 1906
Mason Sears	December 29, 1899
William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
Philip Sherman
Edward Sirois	December 18, 1898
Harry D. Sisson	January 9, 1863
E. Hayes Small	December 23, 1876
Frank William Smith	January 26, 1895
Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
J. Francis Southgate	May 4, 1883
Richard H. Stacy	August 18, 1864
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
William Stockwell
Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
Charles F. Jeff Sullivan
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
William T. Swain	December 2, 1878
Martin Swanson	July 20, 1872
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
Frederick H. Tarr Jr.	March 25, 1903
Joseph E. Theberge	April 27, 1903
James Francis Tobin	May 8, 1903
John E. Troy Jr.
Herbert Lewis Trull
Christopher J. Tyrrell	June 21, 1895
John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
Ira C. Ward	March 7, 1862
Patrick J. Welsh	October 8, 1893
John B. Wenzler	June 11, 1881
John J. Whalen	June 5, 1876
John Philip White
William Emmet White	June 1, 1900
Otis M. Whitney	March 25, 1909
Joseph L. Whiton
Raymond T. Wilde
Ralph E. Williams
Frederick Willis	May 18, 1904
John Chester Wilson	August 14, 1889
Carl A. Woekel
Henry Eden Wright
Morton E. York
Arthur Lincoln Youngman
Abraham I. Zimon

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References

1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1937.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1937" (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: 1937, hdl:2452/265587
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1938, hdl:2452/265588
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1937, hdl:2452/60141
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1938, hdl:2452/60142

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[Officials-1] 1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1937.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1937" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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