1973–1974 Massachusetts legislature

168th Massachusetts General Court
← 167th 169th →
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Term	January 3, 1973 (1973-01-03) – August 2, 1974 (1974-08-02)
Senate
Members	40
President	Kevin B. Harrington
Majority Leader	Mario Umana
Majority Whip	Joseph DiCarlo
Minority Leader	John Francis Parker
Minority Whip	David H. Locke
Party control	Democrat
House
Members	240
Speaker	David M. Bartley
Majority Leader	Thomas W. McGee
Majority Whip	William Q. MacLean Jr.
Minority Leader	Francis W. Hatch Jr.
Minority Whip	William G. Robinson
Party control	Democrat

Kevin Harrington, Senate president.

David Bartley, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1973-1974.

The 168th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1973 and 1974 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.

Senators

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	Chester G. Atkins	April 14, 1948	5th Middlesex
	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
	Irving Fishman	March 29, 1921
	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
	Ronald Conrad MacKenzie	May 3, 1934
	Francis X. McCann	September 2, 1912
	Stephen McGrail	September 23, 1948
	Denis L. Mckenna	August 14, 1922
	Allan R. McKinnon	June 2, 1930
	George G. Mendonca	March 26, 1924
	Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr.	July 14, 1927
	John Olver	September 3, 1936
	John Francis Parker	May 29, 1907
	John M. Quinlan	July 11, 1935
	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
	Mario Umana	May 5, 1914
	William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
	Joseph B. Walsh	November 15, 1923
	Stanley John Zarod	April 11, 1924

Representatives

portrait	name	date of birth	district
	Antone S. Aguiar Jr.	January 2, 1930	10th Bristol
	Theodore J. Aleixo Jr.	August 23, 1942
	Alfred Almeida	October 5, 1931
	Robert B. Ambler	1927
	John S. Ames, III	October 18, 1936
	Frank A. Antonelli	August 20, 1924
	Peter George Asiaf	August 15, 1905
	Roger Sumner Babb	1935
	Wilfred E. Balthazar	July 17, 1914
	David M. Bartley	February 9, 1935
	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 Sr.
	Royal L. Bolling Jr.
	George Bourque	1913
	John Jerome Bowes	February 25, 1917
	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
	Walter T. Burke	August 5, 1911
	John A. Businger
	Thomas Bussone	September 20, 1912
	Laurence R. Buxbaum	March 9, 1942
	Howard C. Cahoon, Jr	December 31, 1944
	Fred F. Cain	November 5, 1909
	Eleanor Campobasso	August 10, 1923
	Angelo R. Cataldo	November 12, 1917
	Harrison Chadwick	February 25, 1903
	Rudy Chmura	March 21, 1932
	Steve T. Chmura	March 29, 1928
	John F. Coffey	February 7, 1918
	Lincoln P. Cole, Jr.	September 18, 1918
	James G. Collins	August 2, 1946
	H. Thomas Colo	December 27, 1929
	Edward W. Connelly	August 2, 1919
	James S. Conway	July 4, 1930
	Edward P. Coury	October 19, 1927
	Gilbert W. Cox, Jr	February 28, 1933
	James J. Craven, Jr.	March 24, 1919
	Thomas E. Creighton	February 1, 1922
	Sidney Curtiss	September 4, 1917
	John F. Cusack	October 5, 1937
	Joseph S. Daly	October 26, 1931
	Alan Paul Danovitch	September 17, 1940
	Richard H. Demers	January 19, 1928
	Arthur Leo Desrocher	January 25, 1930
	Edward M. Dickson	March 12, 1912
	William J. Dignan	September 28, 1926
	Robert F. Donovan	September 13, 1936
	Charles Robert Doyle	September 24, 1925
	Dennis J. Duffin	November 24, 1930
	Richard J. Dwinell	August 5, 1917
	Joseph D. Early	January 31, 1933
	Albert E. Elwell	October 29, 1899
	Thomas Francis Fallon	December 4, 1929
	Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr	April 18, 1934
	John J. Finnegan	July 21, 1938
	Richard F. Finnigan	September 27, 1936
	Charles Flaherty (politician)	October 13, 1938
	Michael F. Flaherty Sr.	September 6, 1936
	Peter Y. Flynn	1940
	Barney Frank	March 31, 1940
	Bruce N. Freeman	March 4, 1921
	Anthony Michael Gallugi	May 16, 1948
	Edward F. Galotti	May 11, 1925
	Ann Gannett	November 7, 1916
	Joseph Garczynski, Jr	February 14, 1927
	Donald R. Gaudette	December 16, 1926
	Robert W. Gillette	September 1, 1934
	Barbara Gray	October 11, 1926
	Henry Grenier	December 9, 1924
	Edward J. Grimley, Jr	December 26, 1943
	Anthony P. Grosso	October 19, 1913
	Paul Guzzi	June 17, 1942
	Edward D. Harrington Jr.	August 11, 1921
	Norris W. Harris	March 16, 1915
	Francis W. Hatch Jr.	May 6, 1925
	Jonathan Healy	October 10, 1945
	Iris Holland	September 30, 1920
	Marie Elizabeth Howe	June 13, 1939
	James P. Hurrell	March 1, 1944
	Daniel L. Joyce, Jr	May 14, 1934
	Richard Kendall	August 21, 1934
	George Keverian	June 3, 1931
	Arthur M. Khoury	February 5, 1940
	Cornelius F. Kiernan	August 15, 1917
	John G. King (politician)	November 30, 1942
	Mel King	October 20, 1928
	William I. Kitterman	July 19, 1928
	Raymond M. LaFontaine	May 18, 1927
	Nickolas Lambros	January 9, 1933
	Richard E. Landry	May 29, 1936
	David Lane (Massachusetts politician)	July 6, 1927
	Peter H. Lappin	September 25, 1938
	Michael E. McLaughlin	October 27, 1945
	David J. Lionett	October 3, 1943
	Alexander Lolas	July 9, 1932
	Gerald P. Lombard	January 4, 1916
	Charles W. Long	August 14, 1940
	John J. Long	December 10, 1927
	John Loring	1926
	Garreth J. Lynch	March 13, 1943
	Frederick M. MacDonald	August 3, 1924
	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
	Clifford Marshall	December 14, 1937
	Peter L. Masnik	March 13, 1942
	Frank J. Matrango	July 19, 1926
	Anthony P. McBride	August 28, 1932
	Robert E. McCarthy	January 12, 1940
	Peter C. McCarthy	September 8, 1941
	Terrence P. McCarthy	August 12, 1941
	Edward A. McColgan	March 20, 1932
	Thomas W. McGee	May 24, 1924
	Robert J. McGinn	December 18, 1918
	Charles M. McGowan	November 13, 1923
	Richard M. McGrath	April 4, 1931
	Arthur James McKenna	October 29, 1914
	John C. McNeil	June 8, 1945
	David J. Mofenson	February 7, 1943
	Paul F. Murphy	October 14, 1932
	John J. Navin	September 9, 1915
	Thomas C. Norton	December 11, 1934
	James Anthony O'Brien, Jr	June 22, 1919
	Kenneth M. O'Brien	February 5, 1951
	Henry J. O'Donnell	March 13, 1940
	James E. O'Leary	April 7, 1933
	Thomas P. O'Neill III	1944
	Carl R. Ohlson	June 4, 1925
	O. Roland Orlandi	March 25, 1936
	Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician)	July 6, 1937
	Robert Owens	October 7, 1946
	Raymond S. Peck	December 10, 1922
	Felix Perrault	October 27, 1915
	Robert G. Phelan	March 19, 1933
	Angelo Picucci	April 12, 1915
	Robert C. Reynolds	November 6, 1934
	William G. Robinson	March 10, 1926
	Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr	November 16, 1917
	Jon Rotenberg	October 21, 1947
	Raymond F. Rourke	October 10, 1917
	John Rucho	November 22, 1922
	William H. Ryan	July 17, 1938
	George Sacco	July 19, 1936
	Angelo Scaccia	September 29, 1942
	Anthony James Scalli	November 11, 1914
	Joseph Scelsi	June 4, 1915
	Anthony M. Scibelli	October 16, 1911
	Emanuel Serra	June 12, 1945
	George W. Shattuck	July 17, 1916
	C. Vincent Shea	November 20, 1916
	Edward Shortell	August 21, 1916
	Richard R. Silva	March 13, 1922
	Thomas G. Simons	January 21, 1942
	Ralph E. Sirianni Jr.	1923
	William J. Spence	May 4, 1930
	George R. Sprague	June 19, 1938
	William A. Starzec	October 14, 1918
	John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
	Daniel C. Towse	December 5, 1924
	Robert A. Vigneau	November 4, 1920
	Carlton M. Viveiros	December 4, 1938
	Henry A. Walker	December 7, 1919
	Norman S. Weinberg	1919
	Robert D. Wetmore	July 24, 1930
	George L. Woods, Jr	March 28, 1925
	George Chester Young	September 18, 1912

See also

• 93rd United States Congress
• List of Massachusetts General Courts

Further reading

• "In Massachusetts, Legislature Votes To Cut Membership", New York Times, June 10, 1973
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1973-1974. 1973.

External links

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "1972 State Senate General Election". Sec.state.ma.us.
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division. "1972 State Representative General Election". Sec.state.ma.us.
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1973, hdl:2452/303861 – via State Library of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1973, hdl:2452/26514
• Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1974, hdl:2452/335748
• Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1974, hdl:2452/32844
• Reports of the Legislative Research Council, Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via New England School of Law (1964-1994)