1943–1944 Massachusetts legislature

153rd
Massachusetts General Court
153rd; Massachusetts General Court
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Legislative body	General Court
Senate
Members	40
House
Members	240

Last updated January 22, 2024

The 153rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1943 and 1944.^[1]

Senators

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Benjamin J. Bowen	January 19, 1876
Richard S. Bowers	June 18, 1900
Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896	1st Hampden
William R. Conley	September 1, 1900
Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
Joseph F. Francis	July 2, 1893
Richard I. Furbush	January 4, 1904
Eugene H. Giroux	January 20, 1903
Maurice M. Goldman
William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn	June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
J. Frank Hughes
Jarvis Hunt (politician)	March 28, 1904
Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
Robert L. Lee
Harold R. Lundgren	May 22, 1894
Donald Alexander MacDonald	February 21, 1893
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
James P. McAndrews
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
William E. Nolen
Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
James Austin Peckham
Benjamin B. Priest
Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
Edward Rowe	March 17, 1902
George W. Stanton
Everett W. Stone
Charles F. Sullivan	October 10, 1904
Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
Sumner G. Whittier	July 4, 1911

Representatives

Name ^[1]	Date of Birth ^[2]	District ^[2]
Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	3rd Berkshire
Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
Theodore Andrews	August 23, 1893
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
Edward C. Ashworth	April 22, 1899
William F. Askin	May 6, 1896
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
Willis L. Baker	June 25, 1875
Charles Homer Barrett	June 23, 1868
George L. Barrus	December 15, 1880
William R. Barry	February 2, 1905
Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
Walter Ray Baylies	April 28, 1902
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
Stanley John Borsa
Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
Clarence B. Brown	December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
Archie Edward Bruce	August 20, 1883
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
Edward Butterworth	August 14, 1908
Bartholomew John Callery Jr.	March 28, 1910
Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
Charles J. Campbell	September 28, 1877
Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
Edmund Euplio Capodilupo	July 7, 1913
Enrico Cappucci	1910
Ernest Westervelt Carman
John Henry Carroll
Daniel Casey	May 7, 1890
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)	June 27, 1905
James Frederick Catusi
Frank H. Chambers	June 14, 1898
Perlie Dyar Chase	July 31, 1905
David M. Cleary	May 9, 1901
J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
Robert Gerard Connolly	September 11, 1916
Michael John Conway
Florence E. Cook	July 8, 1908
Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
George Chauncey Cousens	September 20, 1905
Earl Gustavus Crockett	March 23, 1894
Nelson B. Crosby	June 20, 1871
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley	May 16, 1911
Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
Clifford Rudolph Cusson	January 6, 1895
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
John Joseph Deedy	September 22, 1914
Roger Dennett	September 14, 1895
Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
Octave O. Desmarais	October 26, 1889
Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
Logan Rockwell Dickie	May 4, 1890
Vincent B. Dignam	February 22, 1896
Jacinto F. Diniz	October 3, 1888
Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
Susan Bradley Donovan	October 2, 1895
Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea	January 14, 1891
Clifton Emerson Dwelly	January 11, 1893
Henry Allen Ellis	November 5, 1879
Charles Kingsbury Endicott	October 4, 1892
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
Samuel Falkof
Catherine E. Falvey	November 6, 1910
John J. Falvey	February 22, 1904
John R. Fausey	March 19, 1870
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
Joseph P. Ferriter	March 25, 1905
John Edward Flaherty	December 31, 1910
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
John F. Foster
Douglass Brooks Francis
George Fuller	July 24, 1893
Dana Taylor Gallup	April 14, 1885
Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
Avery W. Gilkerson	June 5, 1899
John F. Gilmore	December 8, 1896
Dennis P. Glynn	September 29, 1906
Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
George Greene	March 7, 1897
Edward J. Grimley	December 15, 1915
Frederick C. Haigis	May 10, 1903
Edward Childs Hall	May 12, 1870
Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.
Charles Howard Haskell	July 26, 1878
Lawrence Alanson Haworth	May 23, 1871
William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
Henry Davis Higgins	February 24, 1873
Ralph H. Hill	February 5, 1915
Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
I. Grafton Howes	June 17, 1889
Orison Valentine Hull	November 9, 1873
Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
Edward A. Hutchinson Jr.	December 13, 1911
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
William McEwen Hyde	January 27, 1910
Harvey Iris
Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
Peter John Jordan	July 23, 1910
Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
Charles A. Kelley	March 24, 1862
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Richard A. Kelly	August 7, 1905
Rudolph King	November 2, 1887
Allan Roy Kingston	November 23, 1901
John Quincy Knowles	May 21, 1895
David Benjamin Lane Jr.	September 6, 1906
George Thomas Lanigan	January 4, 1909
Laurence W. Law
Walter E. Lawrence	December 8, 1905
Ralph Lerche	August 19, 1899
Louis Lobel	August 10, 1911
Burton Elmer Loring
William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
Edward Lysek	October 18, 1911
Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
Vincent Ambrose Mannering	July 11, 1912
Joseph Margolis	September 28, 1908
Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
Thomas B. Matthews	June 24, 1874
Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
Charles Joseph McCaffrey	January 16, 1898
Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
Paul J. McCarty	July 22, 1906
Elmer L. McCulloch
William P. McDermott	July 4, 1870
Patrick J. McDonough	April 29, 1911
Harold B. L. McIntosh	November 19, 1907
Philip McMorrow
Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
Arthur William Milne	March 28, 1908
Walter James Moran	December 22, 1903
Timothy J. Moriarty	August 6, 1909
Lester Bertram Morley	April 19, 1903
Edward J. Mulligan	February 8, 1907
Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
Michael J. Neville	October 19, 1899
James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
Roderick L. O'Handly
Louis F. O'Keefe	June 12, 1895
Tip O'Neill	December 9, 1912
George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
John Thomas Padden	May 6, 1903
Raymond P. Palmer	December 27, 1895
Clark Brownson Partridge	August 26, 1878
Loomis Patrick	May 4, 1907
Oscar Houston Perkins	January 3, 1879
Herman Peter Peterson	November 21, 1890
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
Sam G. Pillsbury	March 7, 1873
George Perry Ponte	May 24, 1905
George William Porter	November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
Stuart Craig Rand	June 9, 1888
George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
Cornelius Edward Reddy	May 27, 1910
Thomas Francis Reilly	August 12, 1903
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts	November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
Gerald F. Scally	July 17, 1905
Alyce Louise Schlapp	November 30, 1912
William Henry Sears Jr.	July 14, 1875
A. John Serino	March 13, 1906
William J. Sessions	December 18, 1859
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
Charles E. Shepard	September 21, 1901
Carl A. Sheridan	March 24, 1908
Robert T. Sisson	February 21, 1881
Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow	April 25, 1914
Margaret Spear	August 10, 1882
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
Avery W. Steele	August 1, 1907
George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
Daniel Francis Sullivan	February 15, 1904
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
William F. Sullivan	August 26, 1905
Eugene Joseph Sweeney	May 11, 1886
Joseph James Sweeney	January 5, 1893
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
John H. Taylor	1873
Robert Leroy Taylor	November 22, 1907
Clarence F. Telford
Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
James Francis Tobin	May 8, 1903
Harold Tompkins	August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
John E. Troy Jr.
John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
Arthur F. Verney
James T. Violette
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
George Thomas Walsh	February 20, 1904
Norman F. Wellen
Joseph L. Whiton
Frederick Willis (American politician)	May 18, 1904
Henry D. Winslow	September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
Clarence A. Wood
Arthur Eaton Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

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References

1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1943.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1943" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1943-1944, hdl:2452/219467
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1943, hdl:2452/58055
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1944, hdl:2452/40891

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[Officials-1] 1 2 3 Public Officials of Massachusetts. Boston Review. 1943.

[Register-2] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1943" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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