1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature

154th
Massachusetts General Court
154th; Massachusetts General Court
Overview
Legislative body	General Court
Election	November 7, 1944
Senate
Members	40
President	Arthur W. Coolidge (7th Middlesex district)
Party control	Republican
House
Members	240
Speaker	Frederick Willis (10th Essex)
Party control	Republican
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3, 1945 – July 25, 1945
2nd	January 2, 1946 – June 15, 1946

Arthur Coolidge, Senate president.

Frederick Willis, House speaker.

Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1945.

The 154th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1945 and 1946 during the governorship of Maurice J. Tobin. Arthur W. Coolidge served as president of the Senate and Frederick Willis served as speaker of the House.^[4]

Senators

Name ^[5]	Date of Birth ^[6]	District ^[6]
John Albetski		4th Worcester
Benjamin J. Bowen	January 19, 1876
Richard S. Bowers	June 18, 1900
J. Elmer Callahan
Michael H. Condron
William R. Conley	September 1, 1900
Arthur W. Coolidge	October 13, 1881
Clifford Rudolph Cusson	January 6, 1895
Chester A. Dolan Jr.	September 20, 1907
Burton F. Faulkner
William Patrick Grant	November 5, 1904
Cornelius F. Haley	July 15, 1875
Thomas H. Johnston	March 5, 1872
Robert L. Lee
Stephen F. Loughlin
John D. Mackay	April 7, 1872
Charles Gardner Miles	December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Joseph L. Murphy	January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson	August 11, 1888
William E. Nolen
Willard A. Ormsbee
James Austin Peckham
Edward C. Peirce	March 7, 1895
Harris S. Richardson	January 10, 1887
Edward Rowe (politician)	March 17, 1902
George W. Stanton
Charles F. Sullivan	October 10, 1904
Leo J. Sullivan	December 8, 1905
Charles I. Taylor	November 25, 1899
Sumner G. Whittier	July 4, 1911

Representatives

Name ^[5]	Date of Birth ^[6]	District ^[6]
Wilfred J. Achin	May 12, 1891	3rd Berkshire
Richard James Allen	June 22, 1909
John A. Armstrong	June 12, 1901
Charles J. Artesani
Edward C. Ashworth	April 22, 1899
John George Asiaf	June 30, 1900
Joseph A. Aspero
Josiah Babcock Jr.	May 21, 1880
Earle S. Bagley	January 20, 1905
Charles Homer Barrett	June 23, 1868
George L. Barrus	December 15, 1880
William R. Barry	February 2, 1905
Michael J. Batal	September 8, 1898
Norman S. Baxter
Raymond H. Beach	August 11, 1888
C. Ray Bennett
G. Leo Bessette	September 23, 1906
Rodolphe G. Bessette	September 14, 1911
Albert F. Bigelow	October 4, 1880	10th Norfolk
Fred Arthur Blake	January 13, 1895
Stanley John Borsa
Everett Murray Bowker	September 17, 1901
Russell P. Brown	August 24, 1891
Clarence B. Brown	December 22, 1877
Frank Eben Brown	January 14, 1890
John D. Brown	January 30, 1900
William Albert Brown	February 5, 1888
Archie Edward Bruce	August 20, 1883
Harland Burke	April 22, 1888
Edward Butterworth	August 14, 1908
Fannie Buzzell	March 31, 1914
Bartholomew John Callery Jr.	March 28, 1910
Colin James Cameron	August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell	December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless	June 4, 1875
Edmund Euplio Capodilupo	July 7, 1913
Enrico Cappucci	1910
Ernest Westervelt Carman
John Henry Carroll
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician)	June 27, 1905
Daniel Casey	May 7, 1890
James Frederick Catusi
Perlie Dyar Chase	July 31, 1905
David M. Cleary	May 9, 1901
Thomas Francis Coady	1878
J. Everett Collins	April 27, 1894
Joseph T. Conley
Robert Gerard Connolly	September 11, 1916
Michael John Conway
Florence E. Cook	July 8, 1908
Charles H. Cooke	May 13, 1878
George Chauncey Cousens	September 20, 1905
Earl Gustavus Crockett	March 23, 1894
Patrick Francis Cronin
Walter A. Cuffe	January 29, 1898
Adin Willard Custance
Leslie Bradley Cutler	March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
George Walter Dean
Ernest DeRoy	July 13, 1889
Cornelius Desmond	October 4, 1893
Burt Dewar	December 29, 1884
Logan Rockwell Dickie	May 4, 1890
Vincent B. Dignam	February 22, 1896
Jacinto F. Diniz	October 3, 1888
Edmond J. Donlan	December 19, 1899
Joseph William Dooley	October 25, 1904
Anthony R. Doyle	August 8, 1895
Charles D. Driscoll	June 18, 1888
Howard Bernard Driscoll
Henry M. Duggan	October 5, 1896
Ernest W. Dullea	January 14, 1891
Clifton Emerson Dwelly	January 11, 1893
Louis Henry Elliot
Henry Allen Ellis	November 5, 1879
Charles Kingsbury Endicott	October 4, 1892
Thomas Edward Enright	August 1, 1881
Sven August Erickson	December 9, 1875
George Jelly Evans	February 4, 1909
John R. Fausey	March 19, 1870
Michael Paul Feeney	March 26, 1907
Charles E. Ferguson	January 30, 1894
Joseph P. Ferriter	March 25, 1905
Peter F. Fitzgerald	February 16, 1889
John Edward Flaherty	December 31, 1910
William Daniel Fleming	April 14, 1907
Norman Eugene Folsom	December 23, 1903
John F. Foster
George Fuller	July 24, 1893
John L. Gallant
Charles Gibbons	July 21, 1901
Avery W. Gilkerson	June 5, 1899
Dennis P. Glynn	September 29, 1906
Hollis M. Gott	May 25, 1885
Thomas T. Gray	July 22, 1892
George Greene	March 7, 1897
Francis G. Gregory
Frederick C. Haigis	May 10, 1903
James Edward Hannon
Fred C. Harrington	April 21, 1902
Joseph B. Harrington
Frederick Roy Harvey Jr.	11th Suffolk
William E. Hays	November 28, 1903
Henry Davis Higgins	February 24, 1873
Ralph H. Hill	February 5, 1915
Charles F. Holman	June 21, 1892
Frank Hathaway Horton	July 15, 1874
J. Philip Howard	February 16, 1907
I. Grafton Howes	June 17, 1889
Orison Valentine Hull	November 9, 1873
Richard Lester Hull	November 30, 1917
Nathaniel M. Hurwitz	March 24, 1893
Edward A. Hutchinson Jr.	December 13, 1911
Fred A. Hutchinson	April 5, 1881
Henderson Inches
Harvey Iris
William Whittem Jenness	April 3, 1904
Adolph Johnson	July 20, 1885
Ernest A. Johnson	March 13, 1897
Peter John Jordan	July 23, 1910
Walter Francis Kane
Charles Kaplan	September 26, 1895
Clarence Karelitz
Alfred B. Keith	November 26, 1893
Francis Joseph Kelley	March 21, 1890
Richard A. Kelly	August 7, 1905
Fred I. Lamson	December 11, 1910
George Thomas Lanigan	January 4, 1909
Laurence W. Law
Francis W. Lindstrom	December 18, 1898
Louis Lobel	August 10, 1911
Burton Elmer Loring
Jeremiah G. Lucey
William Christopher Lunney	December 24, 1910
Arthur Ulton Mahan	June 18, 1900
Philip M. Markley	March 28, 1897
George Francis Martin Jr.
Francis V. Matera
Thomas B. Matthews	June 24, 1874
Harry P. McAllister	April 25, 1880
Michael J. McCarthy (politician)	October 23, 1890
Edward A. McCarthy
Frank D. McCarthy
Paul Andrew McCarthy	December 23, 1902
Elmer L. McCulloch
James Patrick McDevitt
Patrick J. McDonough	April 29, 1911
Joseph F. McEvoy Jr.	April 27, 1918
Timothy J. McInerney
Samuel D. McLeod
Philip McMorrow
Joseph A. Milano	April 8, 1883
Charles Miller	January 12, 1908
Timothy J. Moriarty	August 6, 1909
Lester Bertram Morley	April 19, 1903
Edward J. Mulligan	February 8, 1907
Robert F. Murphy (politician)	January 24, 1899
Cornelius Joseph Murray	August 19, 1890
Henry Thomas Murray Jr.
George Burkman Norton
James Anthony O'Brien	October 27, 1886
William Thomas O'Brien	December 2, 1889
Louis F. O'Keefe	June 12, 1895
George Joseph O'Shea	November 16, 1899
Frank B. Oliveira
John Thomas Padden	May 6, 1903
Eben Parsons
Clark Brownson Partridge	August 26, 1878
Oscar Houston Perkins	January 3, 1879
Herman Peter Peterson	November 21, 1890
Frederick Everett Pierce	May 5, 1862
George William Porter	November 6, 1885
Harvey Armand Pothier	September 6, 1901
John E. Powers	November 10, 1910
William Eben Ramsdell	May 4, 1895
Stuart Craig Rand	June 9, 1888
George E. Rawson	December 6, 1886
Thomas Francis Reilly	August 12, 1903
John Joseph Riordan
Joseph N. Roach	March 22, 1883
Albert E. Roberts	November 22, 1875
William H. J. Rowan	June 21, 1879
Francis Edward Ryan	October 6, 1895
E. Guy Sawyer
Gerald F. Scally	July 17, 1905
Alyce Louise Schlapp	November 30, 1912
William Henry Sears Jr.	July 14, 1875
A. John Serino	March 13, 1906
Henry Lee Shattuck	October 12, 1879
Arthur Joseph Sheehan	March 16, 1897
Charles E. Shepard	September 21, 1901
Carl A. Sheridan	March 24, 1908
Robert T. Sisson	February 21, 1881
Michael F. Skerry	January 3, 1909
Charles J. Skladzien
Roy C. Smith	January 28, 1890
Margaret Spear	August 10, 1882
Edward William Staves	May 9, 1887
George Ward Stetson	May 31, 1902
Daniel Francis Sullivan	February 15, 1904
James E. Sullivan
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan	March 9, 1905
Maurice Henry Sullivan
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan	November 18, 1904
Eugene Joseph Sweeney	May 11, 1886
Joseph James Sweeney	January 5, 1893
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr.	September 16, 1903
Edmond Talbot Jr.	June 1, 1898
John H. Taylor	1873
Robert Leroy Taylor	November 22, 1907
Clarence F. Telford
Nathaniel Tilden	November 3, 1903
Harold Edward Tivey
Harold Tompkins	August 23, 1887
John Joseph Toomey	March 25, 1909
William Francis Troy
Talbot T. Tweedy
Earle Stanley Tyler	December 18, 1896
John H. Valentine	July 21, 1896
John W. Vaughan	March 20, 1878
Arthur F. Verney
James T. Violette
William X. Wall	July 1, 1904
George Thomas Walsh	February 20, 1904
John Cummings Webster Jr.
Norman F. Wellen
William Emmet White	June 1, 1900
John S. Whittemore
John Cyril Wickes
Frederick Willis (American politician)	May 18, 1904
Henry D. Winslow	September 24, 1910
Stanislaus George Wondolowski	August 20, 1909
Albert E. Wood
Clarence A. Wood
Arthur Eaton Young
Arthur Lincoln Youngman

References

^ "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
^ "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
^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
^ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
^ ^a ^b Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove. 1945-1946 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1945" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

External links

Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1945, hdl:2452/279554
Massachusetts General Court, Bills (Legislative Documents) and Journals: 1946, hdl:2452/219468
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1945, hdl:2452/40895
Massachusetts Acts and Resolves: 1946, hdl:2452/55995

[CompSenate-1] "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-2] "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

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

[4] "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.

[Officers-5] Irving N. Hayden and Lawrence R Grove. 1945-1946 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[Register-6] "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1945" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

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1945–1946 Massachusetts legislature

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