1975–1976 Massachusetts legislature

169th
Massachusetts General Court
169th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1974
Senate
Members	40
President	Kevin B. Harrington
Majority Leader	Joseph DiCarlo
Vice-Leader Majority of House of Representatives	Mary L. Fonseca
Minority Leader	John Francis Parker
Vice-Leader Minority	David H. Locke
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	David M. Bartley (1975); Thomas W. McGee (1975–1976)
Majority Leader	Thomas W. McGee (1975); William Q. MacLean Jr. (1975–1976)
Vice-Majority	William Q. MacLean Jr. (1975); George Keverian (1975–1976)
Minority Leader	Francis W. Hatch Jr.
Vice-Leader Minority	William G. Robinson
Party control	Democrat
Sessions
1st
1st	January 1, 1975 – January 6, 1976
2nd	January 7, 1976 – October 14, 1976

Last updated September 13, 2024

Kevin Harrington, Senate president.

Thomas McGee, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1975.

The 169th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1975 and 1976 during the governorship of Michael Dukakis. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and Thomas W. McGee served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Chester G. Atkins	April 14, 1948
John F. Aylmer	January 27, 1934
Jack Backman	April 26, 1922
Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
Walter J. Boverini	June 5, 1925
Anna Buckley	1924
William Bulger	February 2, 1934
John W. Bullock	March 13, 1929
Edward L. Burke	1942
John J. Conte	May 3, 1930
Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
Jack Fitzpatrick (businessman)	April 5, 1923
Daniel J. Foley	April 6, 1921
Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
Robert A. Hall	April 15, 1946
Kevin B. Harrington	January 9, 1929
James A. Kelly Jr.	May 11, 1926
Arthur Joseph Lewis Jr.	September 3, 1934
David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
Michael LoPresti Jr.	April 30, 1947
Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934	5th Middlesex
Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
Robert E. McCarthy	January 12, 1940
Stephen McGrail	September 23, 1948
Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
Allan R. McKinnon	June 2, 1930
John Olver	September 3, 1936
Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician)	July 6, 1937
John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
George Rogers (Massachusetts politician)	August 2, 1933
James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
William L. Saltonstall	May 14, 1927
Frederic W. Schlosstein Jr.	March 17, 1923
Alan Sisitsky	June 4, 1942
Joseph F. Timilty (state senator)	October 3, 1938
Arthur Tobin	May 22, 1930
B. Joseph Tully	January 4, 1927
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1924

Representatives

name ^[5]	date of birth ^[6]	district ^[6]
Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	13th Bristol
Theodore J. Aleixo Jr.	August 23, 1942
Alfred Almeida	October 5, 1931
Robert B. Ambler	1927
John S. Ames, III	October 18, 1936
Carol Amick
Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
Wilfred E. Balthazar	July 17, 1914
David M. Bartley	February 9, 1935
Timothy A. Bassett	December 16, 1947
Wilfred P. Beauchesne	September 3, 1923
Louis Peter Bertonazzi	October 9, 1933
Francis Bevilacqua	August 12, 1923
Donald T. Bliss	1937
Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
Raymond J. Boffetti	1924
Robert Joseph Bohigian	July 24, 1922
Royal L. Bolling Jr.	May 1, 1944
George Bourque	1913
Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
Thomas Brownell	March 25, 1940
John R. Buckley	1932
Robert C. Buell	April 23, 1931
Charles J. Buffone	1919
Nicholas J. Buglione	1932
Doris Bunte	July 2, 1933
Kevin M. Burke	December 7, 1946
Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
John Businger	February 5, 1945
Laurence R. Buxbaum	March 9, 1942
Sean Francis Cahillane	February 9, 1951
Howard C. Cahoon Jr.	December 31, 1944
Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
Andrew Card	May 10, 1947
William A. Carey	January 28, 1920
Angelo R. Cataldo	November 12, 1917
Robert A. Cerasoli	July 12, 1947
Rudy Chmura	March 21, 1932
Steve T. Chmura	March 29, 1928
John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
Gerald M. Cohen	February 22, 1934
Lincoln P. Cole Jr.	September 18, 1918
Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
James G. Collins	August 2, 1946
H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
William Augustine Connell Jr.	November 17, 1922
Edward W. Connelly	August 2, 1919
Michael J. Connolly	April 20, 1947
James S. Conway	July 4, 1930
John Sydney Conway	August 19, 1927
Francis X. Coppinger	March 12, 1935
Leo R. Corazzini	February 17, 1930
Genevra R. Counihan	December 15, 1925
Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
Gilbert W. Cox Jr.	February 28, 1933
James J. Craven Jr.	March 24, 1919
Michael C. Creedon	November 3, 1946
Thomas E. Creighton	February 1, 1922
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
John F. Cusack	October 5, 1937
Michael John Daly	July 18, 1940
Alan Paul Danovitch	September 17, 1940
William D. Delahunt
Richard H. Demers	January 19, 1928
Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
Brian J. Donnelly	March 2, 1946
Robert F. Donovan	September 13, 1936
Francis D. Doris	1931
John R. Driscoll	May 9, 1924
Dennis J. Duffin	November 24, 1930
Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
Edward J. Early Jr.	July 23, 1931
Charles F. Engdahl	July 3, 1921
Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
Mary Fantasia	October 1, 1919
John F. Farland	May 14, 1940
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Philip Frank Filosa	July 6, 1948
John J. Finnegan	July 21, 1938
Richard F. Finnigan	September 27, 1936
Kevin W. Fitzgerald	1950
Charles Flaherty (politician)	October 13, 1938
Michael F. Flaherty Sr.	September 6, 1936
Raymond Flynn	July 22, 1939
Bernard D. Flynn	April 11, 1945
Peter Y. Flynn	1940
William J. Flynn Jr.	1933
Robert I. Fortes
Barney Frank	March 31, 1940
Bruce N. Freeman	March 4, 1921
James J. Gaffney III	December 20, 1942
Anthony Michael Gallugi	May 16, 1948
Edward F. Galotti	May 11, 1925
William F. Galvin	September 17, 1950
Ann Gannett	November 7, 1916
Joseph Garczynski Jr.	February 14, 1927
Donald R. Gaudette	December 16, 1926
Robert W. Gillette	September 1, 1934
Mary Goode	July 2, 1927
Paul M. Goulston	August 1, 1932
Barbara Gray	October 11, 1926
Henry Grenier	December 9, 1924
James L. Grimaldi	May 3, 1911
Gerard A. Guilmette	October 22, 1911
Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
Peter F. Harrington	February 12, 1936
Norris W. Harris	March 16, 1915
Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
Jonathan Healy	October 10, 1945
Daniel J. Henderson
William Francis Hogan	June 6, 1925
Iris Holland	September 30, 1920
Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
James P. Hurrell	March 1, 1944
Philip W. Johnston	July 21, 1944
Gary D. Jones
Raymond A. Jordan Jr.	May 5, 1943
Daniel L. Joyce Jr.	May 14, 1934
Dennis J. Kearney	September 25, 1949
James A. Keefe Jr.
John G. Kelleher
Richard Kendall	August 21, 1934
Robert B. Kennedy	February 6, 1940
George Keverian	June 3, 1931
Arthur M. Khoury	February 5, 1940
John G. King (politician)	November 30, 1942
Mel King	October 20, 1928
William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
Raymond M. LaFontaine	May 18, 1927
Nickolas Lambros	January 9, 1933
Richard E. Landry	May 29, 1936
David Lane (Massachusetts politician)	July 6, 1927
Donat J. Laplante	August 12, 1913
Francis C. Lapointe	January 13, 1939
Peter H. Lappin	September 25, 1938
Michael E. McLaughlin	October 27, 1945
Mark E. Lawton	July 26, 1949
Edward LeLacheur	June 1, 1925
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
Michael J. Lombardi	May 27, 1917
Charles W. Long	August 14, 1940
John J. Long	December 10, 1927
Thomas D. Lopes	September 7, 1942
Garreth J. Lynch	March 13, 1943
Charles A. MacKenzie Jr.	February 4, 1919
William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
Thomas H. D. Mahoney	November 4, 1913
M. Joseph Manning	September 23, 1924
Donald J. Manning	June 23, 1929
Robert Manzelli
Ed Markey	July 11, 1946
Angelo Marotta	October 16, 1937
Frank J. Matrango	July 19, 1926
Anthony P. McBride	August 28, 1932
Peter C. McCarthy	September 8, 1941
Terrence P. McCarthy	August 12, 1941
Peter L. McDowell
Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
Charles M. McGowan	November 13, 1923
Richard J. McGrath
Richard M. McGrath	April 4, 1931
Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
Robert D. McNeil	December 16, 1930
Paul E. Means	June 18, 1945
John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
Elizabeth Metayer	August 12, 1911
David J. Mofenson	February 7, 1943
Paul F. X. Moriarty	August 18, 1929
John E. Murphy Jr.	April 3, 1943
William P. Nagle Jr.	June 10, 1951
Andrew Natsios	September 22, 1949
Joseph M. Navin	May 19, 1946
Lou Nickinello	September 8, 1940
Elaine Noble	January 22, 1944
James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
Nils L. Nordberg	November 6, 1934
Thomas C. Norton	December 11, 1934
James Anthony O'Brien Jr.	June 22, 1919
Henry J. O'Donnell	March 13, 1940
James E. O'Leary	April 7, 1933
O. Roland Orlandi	March 25, 1936
Robert Owens	October 7, 1946
Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
Robert M. Penta
Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
John B. Perry	February 15, 1935
Robert G. Phelan	March 19, 1933
William A. Pickett	June 10, 1935
Angelo Picucci	April 12, 1915
Ronald Anthony Pina	August 11, 1944
Lois Pines	August 16, 1940
Vincent J. Piro	1931
Daniel F. Pokaski	June 26, 1949
Manuel Raposa Jr.	May 13, 1915
Robert C. Reynolds	November 6, 1934
William G. Robinson	March 10, 1926
A. David Rodham	November 26, 1938
Andrew J. Rogers Jr.	May 6, 1944
Francis E. Rogers	July 18, 1932
Richard A. Rogers	July 8, 1930
Robert J. Rohan	August 15, 1921
Maurice E. Ronayne Jr.	November 16, 1917
Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
J. Michael Ruane	December 10, 1927
John Rucho	November 22, 1922
Frederick Dello Russo	December 14, 1943
Alfred E. Saggese Jr.	November 21, 1946
Sherman Saltmarsh	April 27, 1929
Angelo Scaccia	September 29, 1942
Joseph Scelsi	June 4, 1915
Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
James W. Segel	June 29, 1945
Joseph J. Semensi	March 6, 1923
Emanuel Serra	June 12, 1945
William G. Shaughnessy	July 10, 1918
C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
Philip L. Shea	October 19, 1941
James A. Sheets	June 3, 1935
Edward Shortell	August 21, 1916
Richard R. Silva	March 13, 1922
Thomas G. Simons	January 21, 1942
James E. Smith	September 3, 1946
George R. Sprague	June 19, 1938
William A. Starzec	October 14, 1918
Gregory W. Sullivan	January 29, 1952
Karen Swanson	January 15, 1954
David J. Swartz	April 2, 1931
Robert S. Teahan	March 1, 1921
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
Theodore J. Trudeau	January 22, 1916
Peter A. Velis	October 8, 1942
Robert A. Vigneau	November 4, 1920
Carlton M. Viveiros	December 4, 1938
Max Volterra	January 7, 1936
Henry A. Walker	December 7, 1919
Norman S. Weinberg	1919
Bruce E. Wetherbee	September 1, 1950
Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
W. Paul White	July 7, 1945
Thomas P. White	August 27, 1950
Bernard Wilber
George L. Woods Jr.	March 28, 1925
George Chester Young	September 18, 1912
Bruce H. Zeiser

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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 Edward B. O'Neill and Wallace C. Mills. 1975–1976 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1975" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

"State Senate Elections: 1974-1975", Sec.state.ma.us, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division
"State Representative Elections: 1974-1975", Sec.state.ma.us, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1975, hdl:2452/335749
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1976, hdl:2452/335750
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1975, hdl:2452/32845
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1976, hdl:2452/26515
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 Edward B. O'Neill and Wallace C. Mills. 1975–1976 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, 1975" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts– via State Library of Massachusetts

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