The 163rd Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1963 and 1964 during the governorship of Endicott Peabody. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.

On May 9, 1964, a special grand jury indicted House speaker Thompson on 29 counts of bribery. On June 16, 1964, the General Court passed the bill establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue, Senator George V. Kenneally Jr., and House Majority Whip Robert H. Quinn along with a $200,000 appropriation.

Senators portrait name date of birth district Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 23rd Middlesex Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 James F. Burke September 7, 1914 John J. Conte May 3, 1930 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 2nd Hampden William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910 Michael J. Galvin September 7, 1907 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 3rd Essex George D. Hammond October 29, 1906 John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930 Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 William E. Hays November 28, 1903 James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 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 S. McCormack Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918 John E. Powers November 10, 1910 4th Suffolk James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 Antone L. Silva Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920 George A. Sullivan Jr. Mario Umana May 5, 1914 William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives portrait name date of birth district Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891 23rd Middlesex Julius Ansel April 27, 1908 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 Normand J. Babineau January 4, 1928 John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924 David M. Bartley February 9, 1935 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927 John T. 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 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 Joseph G. Bradley June 14, 1930 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 Alfred Sylvester Brothers November 4, 1919 John Brox November 16, 1910 John Patrick Buckley 1906 Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926 Charles J. Buffone 1919 William Bulger February 2, 1934 George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907 Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931 Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916 Patrick Edmund Callaghan August 13, 1895 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 Levin H. Campbell January 2, 1927 Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899 William A. Carey January 28, 1920 Daniel William Carney August 17, 1925 Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 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 Perlie Dyar Chase July 31, 1905 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 John George Clark February 26, 1902 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934 Keith E. Collins April 24, 1929 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 James C. Corcoran Jr. September 22, 1926 Beatrice Corliss October 21, 1910 Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925 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 Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 7th Berkshire Michael A. D'Avolio Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924 John Davoren July 27, 1915 9th Worcester Joseph Del Grosso July 25, 1904 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 Thomas Francis Donohue December 6, 1902 John F. Donovan Jr. August 21, 1931 Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908 James P. Downey January 9, 1911 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933 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 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr. December 13, 1918 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 Irving Fishman March 29, 1921 John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918 Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920 Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924 Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 20, 1917 Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917 Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922 Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928 Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911 Ernest L. Goff Jr. October 10, 1907 Robert C. Hahn March 25, 1921 David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890 Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 David E. Harrison June 19, 1933 Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925 Winston Healy October 20, 1937 Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 William P. Homans Jr. March 18, 1921 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 John Janas September 4, 1910 Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926 William F. Joyce July 26, 1909 Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927 James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 John P. Kennedy February 24, 1918 Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 William James Kingston October 17, 1909 Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928 Benjamin Klebanow November 2, 1900 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 Albert Kramer July 4, 1933 Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921 Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936 Joseph A. Langone, III January 25, 1917 Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901 David H. Locke August 4, 1927 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 John J. Long December 10, 1927 William Longworth August 17, 1914 William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918 John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 Allan McGuane July 26, 1928 James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930 Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 George G. Mendonca March 26, 1924 Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 William James Moran June 24, 1921 William H. Mork May 13, 1895 Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927 Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921 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 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 Lorenz Francis Muther Jr. September 26, 1908 5th Middlesex John J. Navin September 9, 1915 Michael Anthony Nazzaro Jr. June 2, 1925 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 Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922 James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919 James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 William F. Otis October 12, 1903 Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921 Albert P. Pettoruto September 29, 1915 Vite Pigaga Lincoln Pope Jr. May 29, 1916 George William Porter November 6, 1885 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 12th Suffolk William I. Randall September 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 J. Hilary Rockett January 16, 1935 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 Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 Vincent Joseph Shanley January 27, 1916 Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927 Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933 Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914 3rd Plymouth Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927 Milton Raymond Silva June 16, 1923 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 Saul Simons February 5, 1906 George T. Smith March 18, 1888 Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 John F. Thompson May 20, 1920 2nd Hampden George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Joseph Thomas Travaline Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887 Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 Leo J. Turo December 11, 1923 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936 George B. Walsh March 21, 1907 Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925 Norman S. Weinberg 1919 Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902 Thomas M. White John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906 Harold H. Wicher Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also 88th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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