1965–1966 Massachusetts legislature

164th
Massachusetts General Court
164th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 6, 1965 – September 7, 1966
Senate
Members	40
President	Maurice A. Donahue
Majority Leader	Kevin B. Harrington
Minority Leader	Philip A. Graham
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	John Davoren
Majority Leader	Robert H. Quinn
Majority Whip	Theophile Jean DesRoches
Minority Leader	Sidney Curtiss
Minority Whip	Thomas M. Newth
Party control	Democrat

Maurice Donahue, Senate president.

John Davoren, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1965-1966.

The 164th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1965 and 1966 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and John Davoren served as speaker of the House.^[4] On April 22, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address to a joint session of the General Court after meeting with Massachusetts Governor John Volpe.^[5] In the same month, Volpe filed a request for legislation from the state legislature that defined schools with nonwhite enrollments greater than 50 percent to be imbalanced and granted the State Board of Education the power to withhold state funds from any school district in the state that was found to have racial imbalance, which Volpe would sign into law the following August.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Senators

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[9]	district ^[9]
Oliver F. Ames	December 13, 1920	3rd Suffolk
Charles A. Bisbee Jr.	June 8, 1918
James F. Burke	September 7, 1914
Beryl Cohen	September 18, 1934
John J. Conte	May 3, 1930
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Stephen Davenport	June 27, 1924
James DeNormandie	November 10, 1907
Maurice A. Donahue	September 12, 1918
Mary L. Fonseca	March 30, 1915
Philip A. Graham	May 21, 1910
George D. Hammond	October 29, 1906
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
James J. Long	November 15, 1913
Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
James McIntyre (politician)	May 25, 1930
Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
Joe Moakley	April 27, 1927
Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr.	July 14, 1927
John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
Philibert L. Pellegrini	September 4, 1918
Vite Pigaga
John M. Quinlan	July 11, 1935
Philip Andrew Quinn	February 21, 1910
William I. Randall	September 13, 1915
James Paul Rurak	November 9, 1911
Harry Della Russo	May 26, 1907
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, 1920

Representatives

name ^[4]	date of birth ^[9]	district ^[9]
Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	5th Bristol
David C. Ahearn	July 28, 1929
Robert B. Ambler ^[10]	1927
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
Jack Backman^[10]	April 26, 1922
Wilfred E. Balthazar	July 17, 1914
David L. Barrett	February 4, 1920
John Dowkontt Barrus	August 19, 1924
David M. Bartley	February 9, 1935
Robert A. Belmonte	July 2, 1930
Roger L. Bernashe	September 9, 1927
John Thomas Berry	November 20, 1924
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
Royal L. Bolling	June 19, 1920
Joseph G. Bradley	June 14, 1930
John Cornelius Bresnahan	November 14, 1919
Joseph E. Brett	May 19, 1907
John R. Buckley	1932
Charles J. Buffone	1919
William Bulger	February 2, 1934
Anthony Joseph Burke	July 17, 1931
George G. Burke	August 3, 1932
Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
William Francis Butters
Louis Buttiglieri	May 18, 1916
Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
Raymond Edward Carey	January 6, 1899
William A. Carey	January 28, 1920
Philip N. Carney	June 6, 1919
Daniel William Carney ^[10]	August 17, 1925
Ralph W. Cartwright Jr.	October 5, 1920
Paul A. Cataldo	May 15, 1935
Michael Catino	February 21, 1904
Emmett J. Cauley	February 28, 1903
Paul J. Cavanaugh	February 22, 1936
Robert L. Cawley	July 30, 1934
Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
Amelio Della Chiesa	July 31, 1901
Stephen Thomas Chmura	August 25, 1916
John George Clark	February 26, 1902
Thomas Francis Coady Jr.	May 8, 1905
Abraham L. Cohn	May 24, 1898
Lincoln P. Cole, Jr.	September 18, 1918
Andrew Collaro	March 21, 1910
H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
James Francis Condon	February 4, 1899
Lloyd E. Conn	November 26, 1904
William Augustine Connell, Jr	November 17, 1922
George Thomas Contalonis
Leo Joseph Cournoyer	December 11, 1905
Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
Russell H. Craig	February 4, 1924
James J. Craven, Jr.	March 24, 1919
John J. Cronin	August 1, 1910
Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
John Davoren	July 27, 1915
John Joseph Desmond	July 1, 1930
Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
Theophile Jean DesRoches	June 27, 1902
Edward J. Dever, Jr	June 21, 1936
Joseph DiCarlo	March 21, 1936
Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
George DiLorenzo	March 24, 1919
Thomas Henry Doherty Jr.	August 8, 1930
John F. Dolan	September 7, 1922
John F. Donovan Jr.	August 21, 1931
James P. Downey	January 9, 1911
Charles E. Luke Driscoll	October 1, 1909
Wilfred C. Driscoll	December 31, 1926
Michael Dukakis	November 3, 1933
Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
Joseph D. Early	January 31, 1933
John Marshall Eaton Jr.	March 26, 1918
Arnold Irving Epstein	April 5, 1920
Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
Manuel Faria	March 7, 1906
Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr	April 18, 1934
Thomas F. Farrell	October 10, 1897
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
William H. Finnegan	March 29, 1926
Irving Fishman	March 29, 1921
John Joseph Fitzgerald	February 28, 1918
Edward M. Flanagan	January 9, 1929
Charles L. Flannery	March 22, 1920
David Lawrence Flynn	February 5, 1933
Bernard J. Pat Foley	July 20, 1917
Jeremiah J. Foley	October 28, 1915
John Winslow Frenning	July 19, 1922
Albert A. Gammal Jr.	1928
Lester J. Gates
T. Harold Gayron	August 31, 1914
Julie Gilligan	August 5, 1911
Joel S. Greenberg	May 31, 1930
James L. Grimaldi	May 3, 1911
Anthony P. Grosso	October 19, 1913
Gerard A. Guilmette	October 22, 1911
Samuel Harmon	April 29, 1911
Michael J. Harrington	September 2, 1936
Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
David E. Harrison	June 19, 1933
Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
Michael E. Haynes^[11]	May 9, 1927
Winston Healy	October 20, 1937
Timothy William Hickey	February 14, 1938
William Francis Hogan	June 6, 1925
Franklin W. Holgate ^[11]	May 3, 1929
Herbert B. Hollis	September 10, 1899
Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
Charles Iannello	April 25, 1906
John Peter Ivascyn	October 19, 1909
John Janas	September 4, 1910
Carl R. Johnson Jr.	August 22, 1926
Katherine Kane	April 12, 1935
Joseph M. Kearney	February 23, 1927
James H. Kelly	October 15, 1919
Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian	July 8, 1928
Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
Philip Kimball	June 6, 1918
Edward P. Kirby	January 10, 1928
William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
Benjamin Klebanow	November 2, 1900
Freyda Koplow	October 26, 1907
Walter Kostanski	December 10, 1923
Mitsie T. Kulig	May 18, 1921
Matthew J. Kuss	December 5, 1915
Richard E. Landry	May 29, 1936
J. Louis Leblanc	January 6, 1940
Peter John Levanti	March 19, 1903
David H. Locke	August 4, 1927
Alexander Lolas	July 9, 1932
Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
John J. Long	December 10, 1927
William Longworth	August 17, 1914
Joseph S. Loughman	January 11, 1928
William Q. MacLean Jr.	November 4, 1934
J. Robert Mahan	December 14, 1903
Paul F. Malloy	April 29, 1940
Theodore D. Mann	May 13, 1922
Donald J. Manning	June 23, 1929
Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
Robert J. McGinn	December 18, 1918
John J. McGlynn	February 26, 1922
Allan McGuane	July 26, 1928
Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
James Robert McMahon Jr.
John F. Melia	June 5, 1915
Paul C. Menton	April 15, 1925
William James Moran	June 24, 1921
Hugh J. Morgan Jr.	April 4, 1921
Gerald J. Morrissey	May 20, 1927
Edwin Herbert Morse	January 7, 1902
Charles A. Mullaly Jr.	September 28, 1910
James Gerard Mullen	May 5, 1922
Paul F. Murphy	October 14, 1932
Paul Maurice Murphy	February 24, 1932
Albert L. Nash	May 13, 1921
John J. Navin	September 9, 1915
Patrick William Nee	November 22, 1938
Mary B. Newman	February 15, 1909	2nd Middlesex
Thomas M. Newth	March 15, 1911
James R. Nolen	April 17, 1933
Karl S. Nordin	September 10, 1906
James Anthony O'Brien, Jr	June 22, 1919
John Paul O'Brien	June 10, 1937
Walter Wilson O'Brien	October 14, 1910
David J. O'Connor	November 9, 1924
George Henry O'Farrell	November 15, 1910
Charles Ohanian	September 2, 1936
Domenick S. Pasciucco	August 1, 1921
Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
Albert P. Pettoruto	September 29, 1915
George William Porter	November 6, 1885
Robert H. Quinn	January 30, 1928
Manuel Raposa, Jr.	May 13, 1915
Paul de Hoff Reed Jr.
Leo Joseph Reynolds	February 29, 1920
Frank G. Rico	June 2, 1912
Daniel H. Rider	July 15, 1912
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
Harold Rosen (politician)	1906
Nathan Rosenfeld	January 31, 1906
Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
George Sacco	July 19, 1936
Roger A. Sala	August 8, 1893
Duane Thomas Sargisson
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
John W. Sears	December 18, 1930
Jerome A. Segal	June 3, 1931
George W. Shattuck	July 17, 1916
Charles Louis Shea	June 28, 1927
Thomas A. Sheehan	March 21, 1933
Paul J. Sheehy	November 1, 1934
Aaron M. I. Shinberg
Alfred R. Shrigley	June 6, 1914
Andre Rives Sigourney	June 30, 1927
Michael John Simonelli	May 9, 1913
Ralph E. Sirianni Jr.	1923
Lawrence Philip Smith	December 4, 1919
George William Spartichino	June 11, 1924
George I. Spatcher	February 2, 1902
Janet Kirkland Starr	October 11, 1918
Chandler Harrison Stevens
Joseph A. Sylvia	August 19, 1892
A. Edward Talbot	January 24, 1915
Frank Daniel Tanner	February 3, 1888
John F. Thompson (politician)	May 20, 1920
David Spence Tobin	March 16, 1939
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
Joseph Thomas Travaline
Warren A. Turner	January 25, 1905
Elbert Tuttle	August 19, 1931
George E. Twomey	February 3, 1920
John Taylor Tynan	June 7, 1920
Dave Norman Vigneault	September 3, 1936
George B. Walsh	March 21, 1907
Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
Martin H. Walsh	July 31, 1916
Stephen Weekes	February 1, 1925
Norman S. Weinberg	1919
Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
James G. Wheeler
Arthur Williams	December 14, 1915
Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski	September 18, 1926
Edward S. Zelazo	May 27, 1924
Samuel Zoll	June 20, 1934

References

^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
^ ^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
^ ^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
^ ^a ^b ^c 1965–1966 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1965 – via Internet Archive.
^ Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0029138656.
^ Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0029138656.
^ Formisano, Ronald P. (2004) [1991]. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0807855263.
^ "The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1965", Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/796343 – via State Library of Massachusetts
^ ^a ^b ^c State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020
^ ^a ^b Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1965, hdl:2452/303859 – via State Library of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1965, hdl:2452/2669
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1966, hdl:2452/265594
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1966, hdl:2452/2670
Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)

[1] "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.

[CompSenate-2] "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-3] "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

[Officers-4] 1965–1966 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1965 – via Internet Archive.

[5] Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0029138656.

[6] Levine, Hillel; Harmon, Lawrence (1992). The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions. New York: Free Press. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0029138656.

[7] Formisano, Ronald P. (2004) [1991]. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0807855263.

[8] "The Racial Imbalance Act of 1965". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

[Register-9] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1965", Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hdl:2452/796343 – via State Library of Massachusetts

[Papers-10] State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

[black2010-11] Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905

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