1959–1960 Massachusetts legislature

161st Massachusetts General Court
← 160th 162nd →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 7, 1959 (1959-01-07) – November 24, 1960 (1960-11-24)
Senate
Members	40
President	John E. Powers
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	John F. Thompson
Party control	Democrat

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.

Senators

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	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 Ann Stanton	May 27, 1909
	Edward C. Stone	June 29, 1878
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1920

Representatives

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	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 Thomas 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 Walter 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	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
	Vite Pigaga
	Lincoln G. Pope Jr.	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

See also

• 86th United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1959. hdl:2452/40794.

External links

• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1959, hdl:2452/238763 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• 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