1953–1954 Massachusetts legislature

158th Massachusetts General Court
← 157th 159th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 4, 1952
Senate
Members	40
President	Richard I. Furbush (5th Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Charles Gibbons (22nd Middlesex)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st January 7, 1953 (1953-01-07) – July 4, 1953 (1953-07-04) 2nd January 6, 1954 (1954-01-06) – June 11, 1954 (1954-06-11) + 1-day extra session

Richard Furbush, Senate president.

Charles Gibbons, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1953.

The 158th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1953 and 1954 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Charles Gibbons served as speaker of the House.

Senators

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	Paul Achin		1st Middlesex
	John Adams	May 30, 1915
	Philip Griggs Bowker	April 17, 1899
	Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
	Alfred B. Cenedella Jr.
	Ralph Vester Clampit	March 28, 1896
	Silvio O. Conte	November 9, 1921
	James J. Corbett	November 27, 1896
	Edmund Dinis	October 4, 1924
	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
	Philip A. Graham	May 21, 1910
	Charles W. Hedges	March 27, 1901
	Newland H. Holmes	August 30, 1891
	Charles John Innes	June 1, 1901
	William Joseph Keenan
	Hastings Keith	November 22, 1915
	Richard Henry Lee	December 20, 1901
	Ralph Lerche	August 19, 1899
	Harold R. Lundgren	May 22, 1894
	Ralph Collins Mahar	January 4, 1912
	Daniel Francis O'Brien
	Charles William Olson	August 24, 1889
	Christopher H. Phillips	December 6, 1920
	John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
	Andrew Patrick Quigley	January 13, 1926
	Daniel Rudsten
	Elizabeth Ann Stanton	May 27, 1909
	Edward C. Stone	June 29, 1878
	Richard Treadway	June 5, 1913

Representatives

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	Frank Haskell Allen	October 12, 1877	7th Worcester
	Julius Ansel	April 27, 1908
	Charles H. Anthony	July 6, 1893
	Ernest W. April	January 15, 1915
	John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
	Charles J. Artesani
	John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
	John Robert Ayers	February 18, 1911
	Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
	Clifton H. Baker	November 28, 1878
	Cyrus Barnes	August 23, 1889
	James C. Bayley	October 28, 1908
	Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
	John Joseph Beades	June 8, 1916
	Rene R. Bernardin	July 24, 1910
	Charles A. Bisbee Jr.	June 8, 1918
	Carlton H. Bliss	August 7, 1900
	Belden Bly	September 29, 1914
	Frank Edwin Boot	November 8, 1905
	Samuel Joseph Boudreau
	Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
	Gordon Dickson Boynton	August 9, 1901
	G. Edward Bradley	October 21, 1906
	Manassah E. Bradley	September 15, 1900
	Rene A. Brassard	August 5, 1917
	Jeremiah Francis Brennan
	John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
	William Joseph Brickley Jr.
	Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
	John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
	John Brox	November 16, 1910
	James A. Burke	March 30, 1910
	Pasquale Caggiano	August 31, 1909
	Oscar Josiah Cahoon	April 29, 1912
	Gardner E. Campbell	November 22, 1886
	Harold Wilson Canavan	May 13, 1915
	Richard Caples	December 23, 1921
	Charles W. Capraro	November 2, 1920
	Michael Joseph Carroll	June 21, 1891
	Francis X. Casey
	Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
	Wendell Phillips Chamberlain	October 28, 1911
	Philip Aloysius Chapman
	Amelio Della Chiesa	July 31, 1901
	Stephen Thomas Chmura	August 25, 1916
	Thomas Francis Coady Jr.	May 8, 1905
	J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
	Harry Coltun
	George Raymand Como	July 3, 1912
	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
	John Francis Cremens
	Gladys Gertrude Crockett	December 1, 1895
	Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
	John A. Davis	May 9, 1912
	Domenic Victor DePari	October 27, 1910
	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
	John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
	James R. Doncaster	January 28, 1919
	Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
	Allison Rice Dorman	December 1, 1879
	Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
	Charles E. Luke Driscoll	October 1, 1909
	Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
	Philip J. Durkin	October 21, 1903
	John Joseph Dwyer
	Arthur H. Dykeman
	Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
	Anthony J. Farin
	C. Eugene Farnam	December 31, 1916
	Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
	Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
	Lawrence F. Feloney	September 11, 1921
	Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
	Thomas M. Flaherty	September 6, 1903
	Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
	Stephen L. French	March 9, 1892
	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
	C. Henry Glovsky	March 26, 1918
	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
	Francis Appleton Harding	1908
	Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
	William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
	James W. Hennigan Jr.	March 27, 1927
	Christian A. Herter Jr.	January 29, 1919
	Paul L. Hinckley	August 16, 1910
	James Alan Hodder
	Isaac Alexander Hodgen	March 28, 1907
	Olaf Hoff Jr.	January 11, 1892
	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
	Nathaniel M. Hurwitz	March 24, 1893
	Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
	Christopher A. Iannella	May 29, 1913
	Charles Iannello	April 25, 1906
	John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
	Herbert Loring 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
	Abraham Herbert Kahalas
	Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
	Henry E. Keenan
	William Francis Keenan	January 8, 1921
	Charles T. Kelleher	July 26, 1912
	James H. Kelly	October 15, 1919
	Edward L. Kerr	March 6, 1909
	Thomas E. Key
	Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
	Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
	William James Kingston	October 17, 1909
	William Walter Kirlin	May 13, 1897
	Thomas Edward Kitchen	December 16, 1924
	Edmund Vincent Lane	August 31, 1893
	James R. Lawton	October 20, 1925
	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
	Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
	Charles Sumner Marston 3d	June 16, 1921
	Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
	Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
	Joseph F. McEvoy Jr.	April 27, 1918
	John P. McMorrow	September 19, 1926
	Augustus Gardner Means	June 8, 1925
	Arthur William Milne	March 28, 1908
	Joe Moakley	April 27, 1927
	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
	Chester W. Nelson
	Mary B. Newman	February 15, 1909	2nd Middlesex
	Thomas M. Newth	March 15, 1911
	Leo James Normandin	December 14, 1922
	William F. Nourse	September 12, 1922
	James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
	William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
	David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924
	Thomas J. O'Connor	July 27, 1925
	John Henry O'Connor Jr.	December 9, 1917
	James Lawrence O'Dea Jr.	August 25, 1922
	Joseph Michael O'Loughlin	November 26, 1914
	John J. O'Rourke	June 26, 1916
	Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan	August 17, 1921
	Frank B. Oliveira
	Anthony Parenzo
	Charles Louis Patrone	March 17, 1914
	Charles W. Patterson	January 30, 1917
	Patrick Francis Plunkett	March 21, 1917
	Michael A. Porrazzo	June 2, 1913
	George William Porter	November 6, 1885
	Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
	Meyer Pressman	February 11, 1907
	Harold Putnam	February 15, 1916
	Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
	William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
	George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
	Hibbard Richter	April 12, 1899
	William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
	Richard August Ruether	August 28, 1896
	Howard S. Russell	July 28, 1887
	Roger A. Sala	August 8, 1893
	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
	Joseph Silvano	March 1, 1909
	Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
	J. Roger Sisson	August 14, 1921
	Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
	Fletcher Smith Jr.	May 20, 1918
	George T. Smith	March 18, 1888
	Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
	H. Edward Snow	April 25, 1914
	Leo Sontag	August 16, 1922
	Franklin Sturgis Jr.	October 18, 1883
	William Christopher Sullivan	October 13, 1924
	Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
	Armand N. Tancrati	May 3, 1914
	Frank Daniel Tanner	February 3, 1888
	Clarence F. Telford
	John F. Thompson	May 20, 1920
	Irene Thresher	July 6, 1900
	Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
	Robert Xavier Tivnan	June 9, 1924
	Eino Oliver Toko
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	Philip Anthony Tracy
	Earle Stanley Tyler	December 18, 1896
	John Taylor Tynan	June 7, 1920
	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
	Chester H. Waterous	November 18, 1905
	Norman S. Weinberg	1919
	Howard J. Whitmore Jr.	May 9, 1905
	Philip F. Whitmore	September 10, 1892
	Charles E. Wilkinson	December 26, 1883
	David B. Williams	January 7, 1919
	Joseph Wisniowski	March 1, 1918
	Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
	Albert E. Wood
	Alton Hamilton Worrall	April 20, 1893
	Marcus Newell Wright
	John Yerxa	April 23, 1904
	Arthur Eaton Young
	John F. Zamparelli	December 13, 1922
	Paul G. Zollo	August 26, 1904

See also

• 1954 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
• 83rd United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• "State Election Votes for: State Senator". Election Statistics, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1952. Secretary of the Commonwealth. pp. 370–381. hdl:2452/43444.
• "State Election Votes for: Representatives in the General Court". Election Statistics, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1952. Secretary of the Commonwealth. pp. 381–418.
• John H. Fenton (July 5, 1953), "Wide Reforms Set in Massachusetts; Legislature Closes After Voting Major Portions of Overhaul Recommended by Herter", New York Times
• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1953. hdl:2452/40791.
• Joseph F. Zimmerman (1962). "Executive Veto in Massachusetts, 1947-1960". Social Science. 37. JSTOR 41884988.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1953, hdl:2452/238757 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1954, hdl:2452/238758 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1953, hdl:2452/50976
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1954, hdl:2452/50977