1969–1970 Massachusetts legislature

166th
Massachusetts General Court
166th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 5, 1968
Senate
Members	40
President	Maurice A. Donahue (2nd Hampden district)
Majority Leader	Kevin B. Harrington
Majority Whip	Mario Umana
Minority Leader	John Francis Parker
Minority Whip	William D. Weeks
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	David M. Bartley
Majority Leader	Thomas W. McGee
Majority Whip	Paul F. Murphy
Minority Leader	Sidney Curtiss
Minority Whip	George W. Shattuck
Party control	Democrat
Sessions
1st
1st	January 1, 1969 – August 25, 1969
2nd	January 7, 1970 – August 25, 1970

Last updated September 13, 2024

Maurice Donahue, Senate president.

David Bartley, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1969.

The 166th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1969 and 1970 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Oliver F. Ames	December 13, 1920	3rd Suffolk
John Dowkontt Barrus	August 19, 1924
James F. Burke	September 7, 1914
Robert L. Cawley	July 30, 1934
Beryl Cohen	September 18, 1934
John J. Conte	May 3, 1930
James DeNormandie	November 10, 1907
Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
Daniel J. Foley	April 6, 1921
Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
George D. Hammond	October 29, 1906
Samuel Harmon	April 29, 1911
Kevin B. Harrington	January 9, 1929
John Edward Harrington Jr.	July 30, 1930
Charles V. Hogan	April 12, 1897
Allan Francis Jones	June 29, 1921
James A. Kelly Jr.	May 11, 1926
George V. Kenneally Jr.	December 29, 1929
Fred I. Lamson	December 11, 1910
David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934
Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
James McIntyre (politician)	May 25, 1930
Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
George G. Mendonca	March 26, 1924
Joe Moakley	April 27, 1927
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr.	July 14, 1927
John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
Philibert L. Pellegrini	September 4, 1918
John M. Quinlan	July 11, 1935
Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
William L. Saltonstall	May 14, 1927
Mario Umana	May 5, 1914
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
Joseph D. Ward	March 26, 1914
William D. Weeks	May 9, 1926
Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1924

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
James A. Adams	December 24, 1923
Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	10th Bristol
David C. Ahearn	July 28, 1929
Theodore J. Aleixo Jr.	August 23, 1942
Robert B. Ambler ^[7]	1927
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Robert S. Aronson	July 3, 1920
Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
Roger Sumner Babb	1935
Jack Backman ^[7]	April 26, 1922
Wilfred E. Balthazar	July 17, 1914
David M. Bartley	February 9, 1935
Robert A. Belmonte	July 2, 1930
Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
Louis Peter Bertonazzi	October 9, 1933
Francis Bevilacqua	August 12, 1923
Donald T. Bliss	1937
Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
Stanley Joseph Bocko	August 26, 1920
Robert Joseph Bohigian	July 24, 1922
George Bourque	1913
John Jerome Bowes	February 25, 1917
James John Bowler	July 18, 1923
John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
John R. Buckley	1932
Robert C. Buell	April 23, 1931
Nicholas J. Buglione	1932
William Bulger	February 2, 1934
Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
Thomas Bussone	September 20, 1912
Louis Buttiglieri	May 18, 1916
Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
William A. Carey	January 28, 1920
Philip N. Carney	June 6, 1919
Daniel William Carney ^[7]	August 17, 1925
Emmett J. Cauley	February 28, 1903
Paul J. Cavanaugh	February 22, 1936
Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
Rudy Chmura	March 21, 1932
Steve T. Chmura	March 29, 1928
John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
Lincoln P. Cole Jr.	September 18, 1918
Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
William Augustine Connell Jr.	November 17, 1922
James S. Conway	July 4, 1930
Francis X. Coppinger	March 12, 1935
Paul J. Corriveau	July 3, 1930
Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
Gilbert W. Cox Jr.	February 28, 1933
James J. Craven Jr.	March 24, 1919
Robert Creedon	November 13, 1942
Thomas E. Creighton	February 1, 1922
Paul W. Cronin	March 14, 1938
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
Michael John Daly	July 18, 1940
Richard W. Daly	March 25, 1936
Alan Paul Danovitch	September 17, 1940
Joseph Del Grosso	July 25, 1904
John Joseph Desmond	July 1, 1930
Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
Edward J. Dever Jr.	June 21, 1936
Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
Anthony R. DiFruscia	June 5, 1940
George DiLorenzo	March 24, 1919
John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
Wilfred C. Driscoll	December 31, 1926
Michael Dukakis	November 3, 1933
Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early	January 31, 1933
Charles F. Engdahl	July 3, 1921
Seymour F. Epstein	November 7, 1919
Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
Vernon R. Farnsworth Jr.	April 18, 1934
Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
John J. Finnegan	July 21, 1938
Irving Fishman	March 29, 1921
Charles Flaherty (politician)	October 13, 1938
Michael F. Flaherty Sr.	September 6, 1936
Edward M. Flanagan	January 9, 1929
Charles L. Flannery	March 22, 1920
David Lawrence Flynn	February 5, 1933
Bruce N. Freeman	March 4, 1921
Maurice E. Frye Jr.	February 6, 1921
Edward F. Galotti	May 11, 1925
Ann Gannett	November 7, 1916
Donald R. Gaudette	December 16, 1926
T. Harold Gayron	August 31, 1914
J. Laurence Golden	June 10, 1933
Joel S. Greenberg	May 31, 1930
James L. Grimaldi	May 3, 1911
Anthony P. Grosso	October 19, 1913
Gerard A. Guilmette	October 22, 1911
Barry T. Hannon	November 21, 1935
Walter J. Hannon	September 4, 1931
Michael J. Harrington	September 2, 1936
Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
J. Edmond Harris	November 17, 1916
David E. Harrison	June 19, 1933
Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
Michael E. Haynes ^[8]	May 9, 1927
Winston Healy	October 20, 1937
Theodore M. Herman	October 5, 1919
Timothy William Hickey	February 14, 1938
William Francis Hogan	June 6, 1925
Franklin W. Holgate ^[8]	May 3, 1929
Herbert B. Hollis	September 10, 1899
Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
John Janas	September 4, 1910
Daniel L. Joyce Jr.	May 14, 1934
Francis M. Keane	April 8, 1933
Joseph M. Kearney	February 23, 1927
F. Leo Kenney	November 15, 1902
Walter T. Kerr	May 20, 1918
George Keverian	June 3, 1931
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian	July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
Walter Kostanski	December 10, 1923
Mitsie T. Kulig	May 18, 1921
Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
Raymond M. LaFontaine	May 18, 1927
Richard E. Landry	May 29, 1936
Joseph A. Langone, III	January 25, 1917
Francis C. Lapointe	January 13, 1939
J. Louis Leblanc	January 6, 1940
Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr.	September 3, 1934
David Samuel Liederman	April 26, 1935
Martin A. Linsky	August 28, 1940
Alexander Lolas	July 9, 1932
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
Michael J. Lombardi	May 27, 1917
Charles W. Long	August 14, 1940
John J. Long	December 10, 1927
John C. Losch	March 23, 1932
Charles A. MacKenzie Jr.	February 4, 1919
William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
Paul F. Malloy	April 29, 1940
Theodore D. Mann	May 13, 1922
Charles Mann	April 27, 1935
M. Joseph Manning	September 23, 1924
Donald J. Manning	June 23, 1929
Clifford Marshall	December 14, 1937
Frank J. Matrango	July 19, 1926
Benjamin C. Mayhew Jr.	October 28, 1909
Anthony P. McBride	August 28, 1932
Peter C. McCarthy	September 8, 1941
Edward A. McColgan	March 20, 1932
Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
Robert J. McGinn	December 18, 1918
John Austin Shaw McGlennon	August 10, 1935
John J. McGlynn	February 26, 1922
Charles M. McGowan	November 13, 1923
Allan McGuane	July 26, 1928
Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
Paul C. Menton	April 15, 1925
John J. Mooney	August 14, 1930
Hugh J. Morgan Jr.	April 4, 1921
Louis J. Morini	October 8, 1907
Paul F. Murphy	October 14, 1932
Paul Maurice Murphy	February 24, 1932
Albert L. Nash	May 13, 1921
John J. Navin	September 9, 1915
Mary B. Newman	February 15, 1909	2nd Middlesex
James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
Nils L. Nordberg	November 6, 1934
Karl S. Nordin	September 10, 1906
James Anthony O'Brien Jr.	June 22, 1919
John Paul O'Brien	June 10, 1937
Norton Cornelius O'Brien	April 9, 1907
Walter Wilson O'Brien	October 14, 1910
David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924
Philip Conroy O'Donnell	July 29, 1915
Charles Ohanian	September 2, 1936
Carl R. Ohlson	June 4, 1925
John Olver	September 3, 1936
Bernard Paquette	February 2, 1919
Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
William A. Pickett	June 10, 1935
Angelo Picucci	April 12, 1915
Vincent J. Piro	1931
Manuel Raposa Jr.	May 13, 1915
Harry A. S. Read	November 18, 1936
William Reinstein	March 26, 1929
Robert C. Reynolds	November 6, 1934
William G. Robinson	March 10, 1926
J. Hilary Rockett	January 16, 1935
George Rogers (Massachusetts politician)	August 2, 1933
Maurice E. Ronayne Jr.	November 16, 1917
Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
William H. Ryan	July 17, 1938
George Sacco	July 19, 1936
Joseph Douglas Saulnier	April 14, 1906
Anthony James Scalli	November 11, 1914
Frederic W. Schlosstein Jr.	March 17, 1923
Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
Jerome A. Segal	June 3, 1931
Joseph J. Semensi	March 6, 1923
I. Edward Serlin	August 21, 1912
George W. Shattuck	July 17, 1916
H. James Shea Jr.	December 10, 1939
C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
Paul J. Sheehy	November 1, 1934
Andre Rives Sigourney	June 30, 1927
Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr.	1923
Alan Sisitsky	June 4, 1942
John J. Slater Jr.	November 27, 1925
Lawrence Philip Smith	December 4, 1919
George I. Spatcher	February 2, 1902
William J. Spence	May 4, 1930
John F. St. Cyr	January 8, 1936
Kevin C. Sullivan
Charles Tagman
A. Edward Talbot	January 24, 1915
Arthur Tobin	May 22, 1930
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
Daniel C. Towse	December 5, 1924
George E. Twomey	February 3, 1920
Robert A. Vigneau	November 4, 1920
Dave Norman Vigneault	September 3, 1936
Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
Stephen Weekes	February 1, 1925
Norman S. Weinberg	1919
Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski	September 18, 1926
Richard L. Wood
George L. Woods Jr.	March 28, 1925
George Chester Young	September 18, 1912
Bruce H. Zeiser
Samuel Zoll	June 20, 1934

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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 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts
1 2 3 State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
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: 1969, hdl:2452/429130
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1970, hdl:2452/429131
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1969, hdl:2452/2673
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1970, hdl:2452/2674
Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)

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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 1969–1970 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1969.

[Register-6] 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1969" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

[Papers-7] 1 2 3 State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

[black2010-8] 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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