The 156th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1949 and 1950 during the governorship of Paul A. Dever. Chester A. Dolan Jr. and Harris S. Richardson served as presidents of the Senate. Thomas P. O'Neill served as speaker of the House.

In 1949, after 90 years of Republican control of the House, Democrats gained a majority. In 1950, the General Court passed a bill prohibiting racial discrimination or segregation in housing.

Senators portrait name date of birth district Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 1st Hampden John W. Coddaire Jr. Michael H. Condron James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 William C. Geary October 29, 1899 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 William Joseph Keenan Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 William E. Nolen Daniel Francis O'Brien Francis J. O'Neil Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 Christopher H. Phillips December 6, 1920 John E. Powers November 10, 1910 Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 George W. Stanton Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 William Emmet White June 1, 1900 Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911

Representatives portrait name date of birth district Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester Richard James Allen June 22, 1909 Horace Thurber Aplington John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 Charles J. Artesani John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 Joseph A. Aspero Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895 Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905 Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898 James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 Angelo Vincent Berlandi G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906 Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 Belden Bly September 29, 1914 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 Everett Murray Bowker September 17, 1901 Gerald Timothy Bowler Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 Manassah E. Bradley September 15, 1900 Jeremiah Francis Brennan Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877 Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890 John D. Brown January 30, 1900 John Brox November 16, 1910 James J. Bruin October 31, 1898 John A. Burke March 30, 1910 Harland Burke April 22, 1888 Philip Courtland Burr Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879 Eldridge Earl Campbell Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 William F. Carr August 4, 1910 Daniel Casey May 7, 1890 Francis X. Casey Michael Catino February 21, 1904 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 Philip Aloysius Chapman Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 John F. Collins July 20, 1919 10th Suffolk Dana S. Collins J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Joseph T. Conley Louis Benedict Connors T. Edward Corbett Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905 William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 Joseph Henry Cullen John G. Curley Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 George Walter Dean Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889 Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890 Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896 William T. Dillon Jr. Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924 William P. Di Vitto Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919 Francis Clifton Dolan Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895 Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888 Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891 Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 Andrew E. Faulkner September 23, 1913 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 John Charles Fiore Maurice Edward Fitzgerald Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889 John J. Fitzpatrick Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 George Fuller July 24, 1893 Francis Thomas Gallagher John L. Gallant Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915 Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899 Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 William A. Glynn Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 Joseph Patrick Graham August 22, 1902 Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 George Greene March 7, 1897 Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903 Frederick Clement Hailer Jr. James Edward Hannon Francis Appleton Harding 1908 Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 William E. Hays November 28, 1903 Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 James Alan Hodder Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 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 Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910 Francis Xavier Joyce Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 Clarence Karelitz Warren Charles Karner Henry E. Keenan Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893 Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890 Thomas E. Key Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 Bernard M. Lally Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 Joseph F. Leahy Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 Louis Lobel August 10, 1911 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 William Longworth August 17, 1914 Raymond Joseph Lord C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913 John F. Lynch January 26, 1890 John Pierce Lynch April 19, 1924 Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897 George Francis Martin Jr. Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 Frank D. McCarthy Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 Timothy J. McInerney Francis H. McNamara William E. McNamara Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883 Sherman Miles December 5, 1882 Arthur William Milne March 28, 1908 Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907 Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 Louis K. Nathanson James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917 James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895 Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912 John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916 Frank B. Oliveira Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895 Anthony Parenzo Eben Parsons Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 Antone Perreira Michael P. Pessolano Henry W. Pickford Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909 Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917 George William Porter November 6, 1885 Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907 Harold Putnam (Massachusetts politician) February 15, 1916 Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903 Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899 Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883 Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875 Daniel Rudsten Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896 Howard S. Russell July 28, 1887 Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875 A. John Serino March 13, 1906 John M. Shea December 8, 1902 Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897 Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881 Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 Charles J. Skladzien Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890 H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914 Margaret Spear August 10, 1882 Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905 Ralph Warren Sullivan William F. Sullivan August 26, 1905 Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898 Clarence F. Telford John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 Mario Umana May 5, 1914 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878 William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 John Cummings Webster Jr. Norman F. Wellen Malcolm Stuart White Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905 John S. Whittemore Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910 Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 Albert E. Wood Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 Arthur Eaton Young

See also 81st United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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