The 161st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1959 and 1960 during the governorship of Foster Furcolo. John E. Powers served as president of the Senate and John F. Thompson served as speaker of the House.

Senators portrait name date of birth district John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 7th Suffolk Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 Otto F. Burkhardt January 17, 1902 Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 Richard Caples December 23, 1921 James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 Robert P. Cramer October 22, 1916 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 A. Frank Foster February 8, 1910 Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 William E. Hays November 28, 1903 Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 James W. Hennigan Jr. March 27, 1927 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Warren Sherman Keith June 12, 1892 Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 Francis L. Lappin January 13, 1915 Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894 William Charles Madden July 9, 1915 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 Peter M. McCormack April 22, 1919 Arthur Joseph Mullen July 20, 1922 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 John E. Powers November 10, 1910 James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives portrait name date of birth district Harry Benjamin Albro January 21, 1887 2nd Barnstable Walter T. Anderson January 6, 1891 Julius Ansel April 27, 1908 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 Roger L. Bernashe September 9, 1927 Francis Bevilacqua August 12, 1923 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 Vinson Blanchard August 1, 1916 Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900 Belden Bly September 29, 1914 Stanley Joseph Bocko August 26, 1920 Robert Joseph Bohigian July 24, 1922 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 Lawrence F. Bretta January 12, 1928 John D. Brown January 30, 1900 John Brox November 16, 1910 John Patrick Buckley 1906 Thaddeus M. Buczko February 23, 1926 George H. Burgeson December 25, 1907 Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931 Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922 Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905 Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920 Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 Michael Catino February 21, 1904 John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921 Alexander J. Cella March 1, 1929 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 Peter Joseph Cloherty February 19, 1923 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 Gilbert M. Coroa January 13, 1925 John W. Costello April 20, 1927 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 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 John A. Davis May 9, 1912 John Davoren July 27, 1915 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 Domenic Victor DePari October 27, 1910 Wilfred Adolphus Derosier March 2, 1908 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 Gerard F. Doherty April 6, 1928 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 Richard T. Dolan January 4, 1924 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 Henry C. Donnelly April 13, 1922 Thomas Francis Donohue December 6, 1902 Harold Lawrence Dower September 16, 1908 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 James V. Duffy March 14, 1920 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 Thomas Francis Fallon December 4, 1929 Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921 A. Richard Ferullo December 29, 1929 Cornelius T. Finnegan Jr. December 13, 1918 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903 Vernon R. Fletcher February 8, 1924 Maurice Richard Flynn Jr. December 20, 1917 Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922 Joseph Garczynski, Jr February 14, 1927 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912 Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 George Greene March 7, 1897 Henry W. Hallinan February 1, 1915 David Boyce Hamilton December 4, 1890 Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 Russell Palmer Hayden February 14, 1915 Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908 William John Hill October 4, 1930 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 Walter Forbes Hurlburt February 18, 1917 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926 Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897 Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 Oswald Louis Jordan May 9, 1912 William F. Joyce July 26, 1909 Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920 William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921 James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 George V. Kenneally Jr. December 29, 1929 John P. Kennedy February 24, 1918 Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 William James Kingston October 17, 1909 Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912 James R. Lawton October 20, 1925 Frank F. Lemos January 6, 1901 Peter J. Levanti March 19, 1903 Emmit Joseph Line June 17, 1927 John Joseph Linehan March 26, 1933 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 John J. Long December 10, 1927 William Longworth August 17, 1914 John Donald Bain Macmillan July 14, 1917 J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927 Rico Matera June 21, 1917 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 James McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930 Manuel Victor Medeiros March 15, 1908 Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 Robert Francis Mooney February 16, 1931 William James Moran June 24, 1921 Edward S. Morrow March 20, 1921 William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 James Gerard Mullen May 5, 1922 Robert John Mulligan March 29, 1931 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 John J. Navin September 9, 1915 Michael Anthony Nazzaro Jr. June 2, 1925 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 William F. Nourse September 12, 1922 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914 George J. O'Shea Jr. January 5, 1929 Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921 William F. Otis October 12, 1903 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 Theodore Clark Perkins January 7, 1915 Francis W. Perry April 21, 1913 Vite Pigaga Lincoln Pope Jr. May 29, 1916 Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913 George William Porter November 6, 1885 Meyer Pressman February 11, 1907 Stuart D. Putnam February 2, 1906 Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 William I. Randall September 13, 1915 George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 Leo Joseph Reynolds February 29, 1920 Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 Daniel H. Rider July 15, 1912 Harold Rosen (politician) 1906 Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906 Raymond F. Rourke October 10, 1917 Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910 Vincent Joseph Shanley January 27, 1916 Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927 Antone L. Silva Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918 Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 Edmund R. St. John Jr. April 28, 1920 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924 John A. Sweeney October 22, 1926 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924 Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 Edna Telford February 28, 1899 John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917 George Breed Thomson January 10, 1921 Irene Thresher July 6, 1900 J. Robert Tickle February 27, 1918 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Henry Andrews Turner March 22, 1887 Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 Alfred R. Voke February 12, 1919 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 Norman S. Weinberg 1919 Benjamin Horace White April 11, 1902 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 John W. Whittemore January 30, 1906 Clarence Wilkinson September 26, 1910 Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904

See also 86th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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