1959–1960 Massachusetts legislature

161st
Massachusetts General Court
161st; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 7, 1959 – November 24, 1960
Senate
Members	40
President	John E. Powers
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	John F. Thompson
Party control	Democrat

Last updated July 16, 2024

John Powers, Senate president.

John Thompson, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1959-1960.

The 161st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1959 and 1960 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[5]	district ^[5]
John Joseph Beades	June 8, 1916	7th Suffolk
Paul H. Benoit	January 5, 1916
Otto F. Burkhardt	January 17, 1902
Harold Wilson Canavan	May 13, 1915
Richard Caples	December 23, 1921
James J. Corbett	November 27, 1896
Robert P. Cramer	October 22, 1916
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
C. Eugene Farnam	December 31, 1916
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
A. Frank Foster	February 8, 1910
Donald Linwood Gibbs	August 7, 1904
Joseph Francis Gibney	January 9, 1911
Philip A. Graham	May 21, 1910
Kevin B. Harrington	January 9, 1929
William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
James W. Hennigan Jr.	March 27, 1927
Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
Warren Sherman Keith	June 12, 1892
Fred I. Lamson	December 11, 1910
Francis L. Lappin	January 13, 1915
Michael LoPresti	June 25, 1908
Harold R. Lundgren	May 22, 1894
William Charles Madden	July 9, 1915
Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
Peter M. McCormack	April 22, 1919
Arthur Joseph Mullen	July 20, 1922
Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
Elizabeth Stanton	May 27, 1909
Edward C. Stone	June 29, 1878
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1920

Representatives

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[5]	district ^[5]
Harry Benjamin Albro	January 21, 1887	2nd Barnstable
Walter T. Anderson	January 6, 1891
Julius Ansel	April 27, 1908
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
John Robert Ayers	February 18, 1911
Fred A. Baumeister	September 24, 1892
Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
Francis Bevilacqua	August 12, 1923
Charles A. Bisbee Jr.	June 8, 1918
Vinson Blanchard	August 1, 1916
Carlton H. Bliss	August 7, 1900
Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
Stanley Joseph Bocko	August 26, 1920
Robert Joseph Bohigian	July 24, 1922
Frank Edwin Boot	November 8, 1905
Gordon Dickson Boynton	August 9, 1901
Malcolm Blanchard Boynton	November 13, 1894
G. Edward Bradley	October 21, 1906
John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
Lawrence F. Bretta	January 12, 1928
John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
John Brox	November 16, 1910
John Patrick Buckley	1906
Thaddeus M. Buczko	February 23, 1926
George H. Burgeson	December 25, 1907
Anthony Joseph Burke	July 17, 1931
Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
Gardner E. Campbell	November 22, 1886
John J. Campbell	August 26, 1922
Michael Herbert Cantwell	May 2, 1905
Charles W. Capraro	November 2, 1920
Michael Joseph Carroll	June 21, 1891
Ralph W. Cartwright Jr.	October 5, 1920
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)	June 27, 1905
Michael Catino	February 21, 1904
John Joseph Cavanaugh	December 16, 1921
Alexander J. Cella	March 1, 1929
Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
Amelio Della Chiesa	July 31, 1901
Stephen T. Chmura	August 25, 1916
Peter Joseph Cloherty	February 19, 1923
Thomas Francis Coady Jr.	May 8, 1905
Anthony M. Colonna	May 2, 1916
James Francis Condon	February 4, 1899
Lloyd E. Conn	November 26, 1904
Gilbert M. Coroa	January 13, 1925
John W. Costello	April 20, 1927
Leo Joseph Cournoyer	December 11, 1905
Russell H. Craig	February 4, 1924
Robert Q. Crane	March 21, 1926
James J. Craven, Jr.	March 24, 1919
Wallace Boyd Crawford	November 19, 1908
John J. Cronin	August 1, 1910
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
John A. Davis	May 9, 1912
John Davoren	July 27, 1915
James DeNormandie	November 10, 1907
Domenic Victor DePari	October 27, 1910
Wilfred Adolphus Derosier	March 2, 1908
Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
Theophile Jean DesRoches	June 27, 1902
Gerard F. Doherty	April 6, 1928
John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
Richard T. Dolan	January 4, 1924
Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
Henry C. Donnelly	April 13, 1922
Thomas Francis Donohue	December 6, 1902
Harold Lawrence Dower	September 16, 1908
Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
John T. Driscoll	October 26, 1925
Charles E. Luke Driscoll	October 1, 1909
James V. Duffy	March 14, 1920
John Marshall Eaton Jr.	March 26, 1918
Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
Manuel Faria	March 7, 1906
Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Lawrence F. Feloney	September 11, 1921
A. Richard Ferullo	December 29, 1929
Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr.	December 13, 1918
William H. Finnegan	March 29, 1926
Thomas M. Flaherty	September 6, 1903
Vernon R. Fletcher	February 8, 1924
Maurice Richard Flynn Jr.	December 20, 1917
Jeremiah J. Foley	October 28, 1915
John Winslow Frenning	July 19, 1922
Joseph Garczynski, Jr	February 14, 1927
Frank S. Giles	June 15, 1915
Louis Harry Glaser	June 15, 1910
Edwin Daniel Gorman	November 19, 1912
Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
George Greene	March 7, 1897
Henry W. Hallinan	February 1, 1915
David Boyce Hamilton	December 4, 1890
Samuel Harmon	April 29, 1911
Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
Russell Palmer Hayden	February 14, 1915
Arthur Graham Heaney	July 7, 1908
William John Hill	October 4, 1930
Herbert B. Hollis	September 10, 1899
Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
Walter Forbes Hurlburt	February 18, 1917
Charles Iannello	April 25, 1906
John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
Carl R. Johnson Jr.	August 22, 1926
Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
Allan Francis Jones	June 29, 1921
Oswald Louis Jordan ^[6]	May 9, 1912
William F. Joyce	July 26, 1909
Sumner Z. Kaplan	February 3, 1920
William Francis Keenan	January 8, 1921
James A. Kelly Jr.	May 11, 1926
James H. Kelly	October 15, 1919
Archibald E. Kenefick	November 4, 1896
George V. Kenneally Jr.	December 29, 1929
John P. Kennedy	February 24, 1918
Edward L. Kerr	March 6, 1909
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian	July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
William James Kingston	October 17, 1909
Thomas Edward Kitchen	December 16, 1924
Freyda Koplow	October 26, 1907
Walter Kostanski	December 10, 1923
Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
John Joseph Lawless	July 15, 1912
James R. Lawton	October 20, 1925
Frank F. Lemos	January 6, 1901
Peter John Levanti	March 19, 1903
Emmit Joseph Line	June 17, 1927
John Joseph Linehan	March 26, 1933
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
John J. Long	December 10, 1927
William Longworth	August 17, 1914
John Donald Bain Macmillan	July 14, 1917
J. Robert Mahan	December 14, 1903
Francis Joseph Marr	October 10, 1927
Rico Matera	June 21, 1917
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr.	April 27, 1918
John J. McGlynn	February 26, 1922
James McIntyre (politician)	May 25, 1930
Manuel Victor Medeiros	March 15, 1908
Paul C. Menton	April 15, 1925
Joe Moakley	April 27, 1927
Robert Francis Mooney	February 16, 1931
William James Moran	June 24, 1921
Edward S. Morrow	March 20, 1921
William Dix Morton Jr.	November 5, 1904
Charles A. Mullaly Jr.	September 28, 1910
James Gerard Mullen	May 5, 1922
Robert John Mulligan	March 29, 1931
Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
Harold Clinton Nagle	July 27, 1917
John J. Navin	September 9, 1915
Michael Anthony Nazzaro Jr.	June 2, 1925
Mary B. Newman	February 15, 1909	2nd Middlesex
Thomas M. Newth	March 15, 1911
James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
Leo James Normandin	December 14, 1922
William F. Nourse	September 12, 1922
Walter Wilson O'Brien	October 14, 1910
David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924
George Henry O'Farrell	November 15, 1910
Joseph Michael O'Loughlin	November 26, 1914
George J. O'Shea Jr.	January 5, 1929
Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan	August 17, 1921
William F. Otis	October 12, 1903
Charles Louis Patrone	March 17, 1914
Theodore Clark Perkins	January 7, 1915
Francis Whitney Perry	April 21, 1913
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Lincoln Pope Jr. ^[6]	May 29, 1916
Michael A. Porrazzo	June 2, 1913
George William Porter	November 6, 1885
Meyer Pressman	February 11, 1907
Stuart D. Putnam	February 2, 1906
Robert H. Quinn	January 30, 1928
Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
Leo Joseph Reynolds	February 29, 1920
Frank G. Rico	June 2, 1912
Daniel H. Rider	July 15, 1912
Harold Rosen (politician)	1906
Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
Harry Della Russo	May 26, 1907
Roger A. Sala	August 8, 1893
Joseph Douglas Saulnier	April 14, 1906
Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
John Ralph Sennott Jr.	April 22, 1910
Vincent Joseph Shanley	January 27, 1916
Charles Louis Shea	June 28, 1927
Antone L. Silva
Joseph Silvano	March 1, 1909
Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
Fletcher Smith Jr.	May 20, 1918
Lawrence Philip Smith	December 4, 1919
George William Spartichino	June 11, 1924
George I. Spatcher	February 2, 1902
Edmund R. St. John Jr.	April 28, 1920
C. Clifford Stone	August 20, 1897
William Christopher Sullivan	October 13, 1924
John A. Sweeney	October 22, 1926
Joseph A. Sylvia	August 19, 1892
Alvin C. Tamkin	June 19, 1924
Armand N. Tancrati	May 3, 1914
Frank Daniel Tanner	February 3, 1888
Edna Telford	February 28, 1899
John F. Thompson (politician)	May 20, 1920
George Hawley Thompson	June 8, 1917
George Breed Thomson	January 10, 1921
Irene Thresher	July 6, 1900
J. Robert Tickle	February 27, 1918
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
Henry Andrews Turner	March 22, 1887
Warren A. Turner	January 25, 1905
John Taylor Tynan	June 7, 1920
Theodore Jack Vaitses	May 8, 1901
Alfred R. Voke	February 12, 1919
Joseph Francis Walsh	February 9, 1907
Martin H. Walsh	July 31, 1916
Barclay H. Warburton III	February 5, 1922
Chester H. Waterous	November 18, 1905
Norman S. Weinberg	1919
Benjamin Horace White	April 11, 1902
Philip F. Whitmore	September 10, 1892
John W. Whittemore	January 30, 1906
Clarence Wilkinson	September 26, 1910
Arthur Williams	December 14, 1915
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski	September 18, 1926
Alton Hamilton Worrall	April 20, 1893
Albert H. Zabriskie	December 7, 1917
Paul G. Zollo	August 26, 1904

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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 1959–1960 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1959 – via Internet Archive.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1959" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
1 2 Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1959, hdl:2452/238763
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1959, hdl:2452/40894
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1960, hdl:2452/265590
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1960, hdl:2452/30629

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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 1959–1960 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1959 – via Internet Archive.

[Register-5] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1959" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[black2010-6] 1 2 Massachusetts, State Library of; Court, Massachusetts General (2010), Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/48905

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