1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature

157th
Massachusetts General Court
157th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1950
Senate
Members	40
President	Richard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Tip O'Neill (3rd Middlesex)
Party control	Democrat
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3, 1951 – November 17, 1951
2nd	January 2, 1952 – July 5, 1952; + 6-day extra session

Last updated July 16, 2024

Richard Furbush, Senate president.

Tip O'Neill, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1951.

The 157th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1951 and 1952 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Tip O'Neill served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Paul Achin		1st Middlesex
Philip Griggs Bowker	April 17, 1899
Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896
John W. Coddaire Jr.
John F. Collins ^[7]	July 20, 1919
Silvio O. Conte	November 9, 1921
James J. Corbett	November 27, 1896
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
Michael A. Flanagan	February 21, 1890
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Richard I. Furbush	January 4, 1904
Joseph Francis Gibney	January 9, 1911
Philip A. Graham	May 21, 1910
Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
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
Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
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
Andrew P. Quigley	January 13, 1926
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 ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Frank Haskell Allen	October 12, 1877	7th Worcester
Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
Charles H. Anthony	July 6, 1893
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Francis Richard Atkinson
John Robert Ayers	February 18, 1911
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Everett Breed Bacheller	August 24, 1895
Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
Clifton H. Baker	November 28, 1878
Cyrus Barnes	August 23, 1889
Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
James C. Bayley	October 28, 1908
Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
John Joseph Beades	June 8, 1916
G. Leo Bessette	September 23, 1906
Charles A. Bisbee Jr.	June 8, 1918
Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
Frank Edwin Boot	November 8, 1905
Samuel Joseph Boudreau
Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 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 Brox	November 16, 1910
Walter D. Bryan
James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician)	March 30, 1910
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
Oscar Josiah Cahoon	April 29, 1912
Eldridge Earl Campbell
Harold Wilson Canavan	May 13, 1915
Richard Caples	December 23, 1921
William F. Carr	August 4, 1910
Michael Joseph Carroll	June 21, 1891
Francis X. Casey
Michael Catino	February 21, 1904
Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
Philip Aloysius Chapman
Stephen T. Chmura	August 25, 1916
Thomas Francis Coady Jr.	May 8, 1905
J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
Harry Coltun
James Francis Condon	February 4, 1899
Joseph T. Conley
William P. Constantino	August 19, 1911
John W. Costello	April 20, 1927
Leo Joseph Cournoyer	December 11, 1905
William A. Cowing	January 6, 1878
Vincent Francis Cronin
Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
John G. Curley
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
John A. Davis	May 9, 1912
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
Edward DeSaulnier	January 8, 1921
Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
Theophile Jean DesRoches	June 27, 1902
William P. Di Vitto
Thomas J. Doherty	August 25, 1919
James R. Doncaster	January 28, 1919
Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
Allison Rice Dorman	December 1, 1879
Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
Philip J. Durkin	October 21, 1903
John Joseph Dwyer
Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
C. Eugene Farnam	December 31, 1916
Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
Maurice Edward Fitzgerald
Peter F. Fitzgerald	February 16, 1889
Thomas M. Flaherty	September 6, 1903
Stephen L. French	March 9, 1892
Francis Thomas Gallagher
John L. Gallant
Peter B. Gay	July 13, 1915
Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
Frank S. Giles	June 15, 1915
Louis Harry Glaser	June 15, 1910
William A. Glynn
Francis John Good
Edwin Daniel Gorman	November 19, 1912
Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
Joseph Patrick Graham	August 22, 1902
Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
George Greene	March 7, 1897
Frederick Clement Hailer Jr.
James Edward Hannon
Francis Appleton Harding	1908
Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
Christian A. Herter Jr.	January 29, 1919
Albert Fairbanks Higgins
James Alan Hodder
Isaac Alexander Hodgen	March 28, 1907
Olaf Hoff Jr.	January 11, 1892
Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
Walter Forbes Hurlburt	February 18, 1917
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz	March 24, 1893
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
Christopher A. Iannella	May 29, 1913
Charles Iannello	April 25, 1906
Herbert L. Jackson
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
Francis Xavier Joyce
Abraham Herbert Kahalas
Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
Henry E. Keenan
William Francis Keenan	January 8, 1921
Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
Charles T. Kelleher	July 26, 1912
Edward L. Kerr	March 6, 1909
Thomas E. Key
Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
William Walter Kirlin	May 13, 1897
Thomas Edward Kitchen	December 16, 1924
Bernard M. Lally
Edmund Vincent Lane	August 31, 1893
Joseph F. Leahy
Carter Lee	July 3, 1907
Francis W. Lindstrom	December 18, 1898
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
William Longworth	August 17, 1914
Raymond Joseph Lord
C. Gerald Lucey	September 8, 1913
John Pierce Lynch	April 19, 1924
Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
Charles Sumner Marston 3d	June 16, 1921
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		10th Suffolk
Francis H. McNamara
Augustus Gardner Means	June 8, 1925
Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
Sherman Miles	December 5, 1882
Arthur William Milne	March 28, 1908
Wilfred S. Mirsky	September 14, 1906
William Dix Morton Jr.	November 5, 1904
Charles A. Mullaly Jr.	September 28, 1910
Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
John E. Murphy	February 13, 1900
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
David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924	10th Suffolk
John Henry O'Connor Jr.	December 9, 1917
James O'Dea Jr.	August 25, 1922
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
Charles Louis Patrone	March 17, 1914
Antone Perreira
Michael P. Pessolano
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
Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
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
William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
Richard August Ruether	August 28, 1896
Howard S. Russell	July 28, 1887
Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson
Joseph Douglas Saulnier	April 14, 1906
Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
Edwin Andrews Seibel
John M. Shea	December 8, 1902
Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Fletcher Smith Jr.	May 20, 1918
Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow	April 25, 1914
Thomas H. Spurr Jr.
Walter J. Sullivan	March 2, 1923
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
William F. Sullivan	August 26, 1905
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
Walter Frank Szetela
Frank Daniel Tanner	February 3, 1888
Clarence F. Telford
Irene Thresher	July 6, 1900
Robert Xavier Tivnan	June 9, 1924
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
Philip Anthony Tracy		10th Suffolk
Earle Stanley Tyler	December 18, 1896
John Taylor Tynan	June 7, 1920
Mario Umana	May 5, 1914
Theodore Jack Vaitses	May 8, 1901
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
Joseph Francis Walsh	February 9, 1907
Joseph D. Ward	March 26, 1914
Martha Ware	October 6, 1917
Malcolm Stuart White
Richard James White Jr.	April 14, 1890
Howard J. Whitmore Jr.	May 9, 1905
Philip F. Whitmore	September 10, 1892
David B. Williams (politician)	January 7, 1919
Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Alton Hamilton Worrall	April 20, 1893
Arthur Eaton Young

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References

↑ "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
↑ "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
↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
1 2 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1951" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
↑ Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1951, hdl:2452/238755 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1952, hdl:2452/238756
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1951, hdl:2452/50973
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1952, hdl:2452/50974
"April 16, 1952: Tip O'Neill Announces Run for Congress", Massmoments.org, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

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[CompSenate-1] "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-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

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

[4] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.

[Officers-5] 1 2 1951–1952 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1951" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[7] Pamela W. Schofield (April 14, 2014), "Some Mayors of Boston who had been members of the General Court", State Library of Massachusetts blog

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