1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature

156th
Massachusetts General Court
156th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 5, 1949 – August 19, 1950
Senate
Members	40
President	Chester A. Dolan Jr., Harris S. Richardson
Party control	20-20 Republican/Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	Thomas P. O'Neill
Party control	Democrat

Last updated July 16, 2024

Chester Dolan, Senate president.

Harris Richardson, Senate president.

Tip O'Neill, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1949-1950.

The 156th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1949 and 1950 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Chester A. Dolan Jr. and Harris S. Richardson served as presidents of the Senate. Thomas P. O'Neill served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[7]	district ^[7]
Philip Griggs Bowker	April 17, 1899
Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896	1st Hampden
John W. Coddaire Jr.
Michael H. Condron
James J. Corbett	November 27, 1896
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Richard I. Furbush	January 4, 1904
William C. Geary
Joseph Francis Gibney	January 9, 1911
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
William Joseph Keenan
Richard Henry Lee	December 20, 1901
Ralph Lerche	August 19, 1899
Michael LoPresti	June 25, 1908
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
Joseph A. Melley	March 1, 1902
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
William E. Nolen
Daniel Francis O'Brien
Francis J. O'Neil
Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
Edward C. Peirce	March 7, 1895
Christopher H. Phillips	December 6, 1920
John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
George W. Stanton
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
Edward C. Stone	June 29, 1878
Charles I. Taylor	November 25, 1899
William Emmet White	June 1, 1900
Sumner G. Whittier	July 4, 1911

Representatives

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[7]	district ^[7]
Frank Haskell Allen	October 12, 1877	7th Worcester
Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
Horace Thurber Aplington
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Everett Breed Bacheller	August 24, 1895
Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
Cyrus Barnes	August 23, 1889
Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
James C. Bayley	October 28, 1908
Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
Angelo Vincent Berlandi
G. Leo Bessette	September 23, 1906
Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
Charles A. Bisbee Jr.	June 8, 1918
Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
Frank Edwin Boot	November 8, 1905
Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
Gerald Timothy Bowler
Gordon Dickson Boynton	August 9, 1901
Manassah E. Bradley	September 15, 1900
Jeremiah Francis Brennan
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan	September 30, 1888
John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
Clarence B. Brown	December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
John Brox	November 16, 1910
James J. Bruin	October 31, 1898
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician)	March 30, 1910
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
Philip Courtland Burr
Oscar Josiah Cahoon	April 29, 1912
Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
Eldridge Earl Campbell
Harold Wilson Canavan	May 13, 1915
William F. Carr	August 4, 1910
Daniel Casey	May 7, 1890
Francis X. Casey
Michael Catino	February 21, 1904
Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
Wendell Phillips Chamberlain	October 28, 1911
Philip Aloysius Chapman
Thomas Francis Coady Jr.	May 8, 1905
John F. Collins	July 20, 1919	10th Suffolk
Dana S. Collins
J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
James Francis Condon	February 4, 1899
Joseph T. Conley
Louis Benedict Connors
T. Edward Corbett
Leo Joseph Cournoyer	December 11, 1905
George Chauncey Cousens	September 20, 1905
William A. Cowing	January 6, 1878
James J. Craven, Jr.	March 24, 1919
Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
Joseph Henry Cullen
John G. Curley
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
Edward DeSaulnier	January 8, 1921
Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
Logan Rockwell Dickie	May 4, 1890
Vincent B. Dignam	February 22, 1896
William T. Dillon Jr.
Edmund Dinis	October 4, 1924
William P. Di Vitto
Thomas J. Doherty	August 25, 1919
Francis Clifton Dolan
Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea	January 14, 1891
Philip J. Durkin	October 21, 1903
Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
Andrew E. Faulkner	September 23, 1913
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
John Charles Fiore
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
Peter F. Fitzgerald	February 16, 1889
John J. Fitzpatrick
Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
Stephen L. French	March 9, 1892
George Fuller	July 24, 1893
Francis Thomas Gallagher
John L. Gallant
Peter B. Gay	July 13, 1915
Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
Frank S. Giles	June 15, 1915
Avery W. Gilkerson	June 5, 1899
Louis Harry Glaser	June 15, 1910
William A. Glynn
Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
Joseph Patrick Graham	August 22, 1902
Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
George Greene	March 7, 1897
Frederick C. Haigis	May 10, 1903
Frederick Clement Hailer Jr.
James Edward Hannon
Francis Appleton Harding	1908
Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
James Alan Hodder
Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz	March 24, 1893
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
William Whittem Jenness	April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
Stanley Everett Johnson	October 4, 1911
Allan Francis Jones	June 29, 1921
Peter John Jordan	July 23, 1910
Francis Xavier Joyce
Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
Clarence Karelitz
Warren Charles Karner
Henry E. Keenan
Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Thomas E. Key
Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
Bernard M. Lally
Edmund Vincent Lane	August 31, 1893
Joseph F. Leahy
Francis W. Lindstrom	December 18, 1898
Louis Lobel	August 10, 1911
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
William Longworth	August 17, 1914
Raymond Joseph Lord
C. Gerald Lucey	September 8, 1913
John F. Lynch	January 26, 1890
John Pierce Lynch	April 19, 1924
Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
Vincent Ambrose Mannering	July 11, 1912
Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
George Francis Martin Jr.
Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
Frank D. McCarthy
Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr.	April 27, 1918
Timothy J. McInerney
Francis H. McNamara
William E. McNamara
Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
Sherman Miles	December 5, 1882
Arthur William Milne	March 28, 1908
Wilfred S. Mirsky	September 14, 1906
Charles A. Mullaly Jr.	September 28, 1910
Edward J. Mulligan	February 8, 1907
Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
Harold Clinton Nagle	July 27, 1917
Louis K. Nathanson
James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
John Henry O'Connor Jr.	December 9, 1917
James O'Dea Jr.	August 25, 1922
George Henry O'Farrell	November 15, 1910
Louis F. O'Keefe	June 12, 1895
Tip O'Neill	December 9, 1912
John J. O'Rourke	June 26, 1916
Frank B. Oliveira
Harold A. Palmer	October 15, 1906
Raymond P. Palmer	December 27, 1895
Anthony Parenzo
Eben Parsons
Clark Brownson Partridge	August 26, 1878
Charles Louis Patrone	March 17, 1914
Antone Perreira
Michael P. Pessolano
Henry W. Pickford
Gabriel Piemonte	January 28, 1909
Patrick Francis Plunkett	March 21, 1917
George William Porter	November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
Meyer Pressman	February 11, 1907
Harold Putnam (Massachusetts politician)	February 15, 1916
Andrew P. Quigley	January 13, 1926
Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
Thomas Francis Reilly	August 12, 1903
Hibbard Richter	April 12, 1899
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts	November 22, 1875
Daniel Rudsten
Richard August Ruether	August 28, 1896
Howard S. Russell	July 28, 1887
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
William Henry Sears Jr.	July 14, 1875
A. John Serino	March 13, 1906
John M. Shea	December 8, 1902
Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
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
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
Ralph Warren Sullivan
William F. Sullivan	August 26, 1905
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
Clarence F. Telford
John F. Thompson (politician)	May 20, 1920
Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
Robert Xavier Tivnan	June 9, 1924
Harold Tompkins	August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
James Joseph Twohig Jr.	May 2, 1908
Earle Stanley Tyler	December 18, 1896
Mario Umana	May 5, 1914
Theodore Jack Vaitses	May 8, 1901
John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
Joseph Francis Walsh	February 9, 1907
Joseph D. Ward	March 26, 1914
John Cummings Webster Jr.
Norman F. Wellen
Malcolm Stuart White
Howard J. Whitmore Jr.	May 9, 1905
John S. Whittemore
Henry D. Winslow	September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden
Alton Hamilton Worrall	April 20, 1893
Arthur Eaton Young

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References

↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
1 2 "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
1 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
1 2 3 1949–1950 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1949 – via Internet Archive.
↑ John F. Parker (1985), "Evolution of Massachusetts Party Government (1630's-1980's)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston
↑ Vale, Lawrence J. (2000). From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 301–302. ISBN 978-0674025752.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1949" (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: 1949, hdl:2452/219471
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1949, hdl:2452/54342
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1950, hdl:2452/238754
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1950, hdl:2452/50975

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[1] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[CompSenate-2] 1 2 "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

[CompHouse-3] 1 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

[Officers-4] 1 2 3 1949–1950 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1949 – via Internet Archive.

[Parker1985-5] John F. Parker (1985), "Evolution of Massachusetts Party Government (1630's-1980's)", Legislative Life, Its Realities, Facts, Wit & Humor, New Legislators' Orientation, State House, Boston

[Vale_pp._301–302-6] Vale, Lawrence J. (2000). From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 301–302. ISBN 978-0674025752.

[Register-7] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1949" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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