1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature

156th
Massachusetts General Court
←155th 157th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 5, 1949 (1949-01-05) – August 19, 1950 (1950-08-19) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentChester A. Dolan Jr., Harris S. Richardson
Party control20-20 Republican/Democrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerThomas P. O'Neill
Party controlDemocrat[3]
Chester A. Dolan Jr.
Chester Dolan, Senate president.
Harris S. Richardson
Harris Richardson, Senate president.
Thomas P. O'Neill
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]

In 1949, after 90 years of Republican control of the House, Democrats gained a majority.[5] In 1950, the General Court passed a bill prohibiting racial discrimination or segregation in housing.[6]

Senators

portrait 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 October 29, 1899
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

portrait 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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  2. ^ a b "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
  3. ^ a b "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
  4. ^ a b c 1949–1950 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1949 – via Internet Archive.
  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
  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.
  7. ^ a b c d "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

Further reading

  • Court, Massachusetts General (1949). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40789.
  • 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