The 159th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1955 and 1956 during the governorship of Christian Herter. Richard I. Furbush served as president of the Senate and Michael F. Skerry served as speaker of the House.
The Massachusetts Legislative Research Bureau began operating in 1955.
Senators portrait name date of birth district John Adams May 30, 1915 4th Essex John Joseph Beades June 8, 1916 Paul H. Benoit January 5, 1916 Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 Silvio O. Conte November 9, 1921 James J. Corbett November 27, 1896 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Edmund Dinis October 4, 1924 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 Joseph Francis Gibney January 9, 1911 C. Henry Glovsky March 26, 1918 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 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 Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 Hastings Keith November 22, 1915 Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894 Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 Francis X. McCann September 2, 1912 Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906 Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 John E. Powers November 10, 1910 Albert S. Previte Jr. September 26, 1928 Andrew P. Quigley January 13, 1926 Daniel Rudsten Elizabeth Stanton May 27, 1909 Edward C. Stone June 29, 1878 Mario Umana May 5, 1914 Patrick John F. Walsh Jr. July 2, 1915
Representatives portrait name date of birth district Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester Leonard H. Amoroso February 14, 1897 Charles H. Anthony July 6, 1893 Ernest W. April January 15, 1915 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 Charles J. Artesani John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 John Robert Ayers February 18, 1911 Clifton H. Baker November 28, 1878 Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 Fred A. Baumeister September 24, 1892 James C. Bayley October 28, 1908 Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 Rene R. Bernardin July 24, 1910 Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 Carlton H. Bliss August 7, 1900 Belden Bly September 29, 1914 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 Samuel Joseph Boudreau Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 Malcolm Blanchard Boynton November 13, 1894 G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906 Rene A. Brassard August 5, 1917 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890 John D. Brown January 30, 1900 John Brox November 16, 1910 John Patrick Buckley 1906 William Francis Burke February 12, 1925 Pasquale Caggiano August 31, 1909 Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 Gardner E. Campbell November 22, 1886 John J. Campbell August 26, 1922 Harold Wilson Canavan May 13, 1915 Michael Herbert Cantwell May 2, 1905 Richard Caples December 23, 1921 Charles W. Capraro November 2, 1920 Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 John Joseph Cavanaugh December 16, 1921 Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 Amelio Della Chiesa July 31, 1901 Stephen T. Chmura August 25, 1916 Thomas Francis Coady Jr. May 8, 1905 Anthony M. Colonna May 2, 1916 Harry Coltun George Raymand Como July 3, 1912 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Joseph T. Conley William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 John W. Costello April 20, 1927 Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 Wallace Boyd Crawford November 19, 1908 John Francis Cremens 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 Edward DeSaulnier January 8, 1921 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 William P. Di Vitto Thomas J. Doherty August 25, 1919 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 James R. Doncaster January 28, 1919 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 Allison Rice Dorman December 1, 1879 Charles Robert Doyle September 24, 1925 John T. Driscoll October 26, 1925 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 Philip J. Durkin October 21, 1903 John Marshall Eaton Jr. March 26, 1918 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 Manuel Faria March 7, 1906 C. Eugene Farnam December 31, 1916 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 Lawrence F. Feloney September 11, 1921 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 Thomas M. Flaherty September 6, 1903 Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 Peter B. Gay July 13, 1915 Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 Donald Linwood Gibbs August 7, 1904 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 Louis Harry Glaser June 15, 1910 Edwin Daniel Gorman November 19, 1912 Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 Joseph Patrick Graham August 22, 1902 Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 George Greene March 7, 1897 Thomas J. Hannon December 9, 1900 Francis Appleton Harding 1908 Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 William E. Hays November 28, 1903 Arthur Graham Heaney July 7, 1908 Francis J. Hickey, Jr. March 7, 1928 George W. Hill September 15, 1888 Paul L. Hinckley August 16, 1910 Isaac Alexander Hodgen March 28, 1907 Olaf Hoff Jr. January 11, 1892 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 Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 Christopher A. Iannella May 29, 1913 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 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 Abraham Herbert Kahalas Sumner Z. Kaplan February 3, 1920 William Francis Keenan January 8, 1921 Charles T. Kelleher July 26, 1912 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 Archibald E. Kenefick November 4, 1896 Edward L. Kerr March 6, 1909 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 William James Kingston October 17, 1909 William Walter Kirlin May 13, 1897 Thomas Edward Kitchen December 16, 1924 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 Edmund Vincent Lane August 31, 1893 John Joseph Lawless July 15, 1912 James R. Lawton October 20, 1925 Carter Lee July 3, 1907 Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 Thomas Francis Linehan November 23, 1905 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 William Longworth August 17, 1914 Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 Francis Joseph Marr October 10, 1927 Charles Sumner Marston 3d June 16, 1921 Rico Matera June 21, 1917 Joseph F. McEvoy Jr. April 27, 1918 Hugh J. McLaughlin September 27, 1915 John P. McMorrow September 19, 1926 Wilfred S. Mirsky September 14, 1906 Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 William Dix Morton Jr. November 5, 1904 Charles A. Mullaly Jr. September 28, 1910 John E. Murphy February 13, 1900 Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 Thomas M. Newth March 15, 1911 Leo James Normandin December 14, 1922 William F. Nourse September 12, 1922 James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 Thomas J. O'Connor July 27, 1925 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917 James O'Dea Jr. August 25, 1922 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 Joseph Michael O'Loughlin November 26, 1914 John J. O'Rourke June 26, 1916 Daniel Matthew O'Sullivan August 17, 1921 Frank B. Oliveira Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 Charles Louis Patrone March 17, 1914 Charles W. Patterson January 30, 1917 Patrick Francis Plunkett March 21, 1917 Michael A. Porrazzo June 2, 1913 George William Porter November 6, 1885 Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 Harold Putnam February 15, 1916 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 William I. Randall September 13, 1915 George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 Frank G. Rico June 2, 1912 William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 Richard August Ruether August 28, 1896 Roger A. Sala August 8, 1893 Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 John Ralph Sennott Jr. April 22, 1910 John Ellsworth Sheldon August 17, 1909 Joseph Silvano March 1, 1909 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 J. Roger Sisson August 14, 1921 Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 Thomas J. Slack February 10, 1914 Fletcher Smith Jr. May 20, 1918 George T. Smith March 18, 1888 Leo Sontag August 16, 1922 Anthony William Spadafora October 20, 1924 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 C. Clifford Stone August 20, 1897 Franklin Sturgis Jr. October 18, 1883 William Christopher Sullivan October 13, 1924 Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 Alvin C. Tamkin June 19, 1924 Armand N. Tancrati May 3, 1914 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 Duncan Forbes Thayer February 14, 1900 John F. Thompson May 20, 1920 George Hawley Thompson June 8, 1917 Irene Thresher July 6, 1900 Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 Robert Xavier Tivnan June 9, 1924 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Herbert Tuckerman May 2, 1921 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 Barclay H. Warburton III February 5, 1922 Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 Martha Ware October 6, 1917 Chester H. Waterous November 18, 1905 Norman S. Weinberg 1919 Philip F. Whitmore September 10, 1892 Charles E. Wilkinson December 26, 1883 Joseph Wisniowski March 1, 1918 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 Alton Hamilton Worrall April 20, 1893 John Yerxa April 23, 1904 Albert H. Zabriskie December 7, 1917 John F. Zamparelli December 13, 1922 Paul G. Zollo August 26, 1904
See also 84th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts
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External links Photo of William Randolph Hearst Jr. speaking to members of the legislature, March 31, 1955