The 164th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1965 and 1966 during the governorship of John Volpe. Maurice A. Donahue served as president of the Senate and John Davoren served as speaker of the House. On April 22, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered an address to a joint session of the General Court after meeting with Massachusetts Governor John Volpe. In the same month, Volpe filed a request for legislation from the state legislature that defined schools with nonwhite enrollments greater than 50 percent to be imbalanced and granted the State Board of Education the power to withhold state funds from any school district in the state that was found to have racial imbalance, which Volpe would sign into law the following August.

Senators portrait name date of birth district Oliver F. Ames December 13, 1920 3rd Suffolk Charles A. Bisbee Jr. June 8, 1918 James F. Burke September 7, 1914 Beryl Cohen September 18, 1934 John J. Conte May 3, 1930 Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Stephen Davenport June 27, 1924 James DeNormandie November 10, 1907 Maurice A. Donahue September 12, 1918 Mary L. Fonseca March 30, 1915 Philip A. Graham May 21, 1910 George D. Hammond October 29, 1906 Kevin B. Harrington January 9, 1929 John Edward Harrington Jr. July 30, 1930 Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 Allan Francis Jones June 29, 1921 James A. Kelly Jr. May 11, 1926 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 McIntyre (politician) May 25, 1930 Denis L. Mckenna August 14, 1922 Joe Moakley April 27, 1927 Andrea F. Nuciforo Sr. July 14, 1927 John Francis Parker May 29, 1907 Philibert L. Pellegrini September 4, 1918 Vite Pigaga John M. Quinlan July 11, 1935 Philip Andrew Quinn February 21, 1910 William I. Randall September 13, 1915 James Paul Rurak November 9, 1911 Harry Della Russo May 26, 1907 Mario Umana May 5, 1914 William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Joseph D. Ward March 26, 1914 William D. Weeks May 9, 1926 Stanley John Zarod April 11, 1920

Representatives portrait name date of birth district Antone S. Aguiar Jr. January 2, 1930 5th Bristol David C. Ahearn July 28, 1929 Robert B. Ambler 1927 John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 Peter George Asiaf August 15, 1905 Jack Backman April 26, 1922 Wilfred E. Balthazar July 17, 1914 David L. Barrett February 4, 1920 John Dowkontt Barrus August 19, 1924 David M. Bartley February 9, 1935 Robert A. Belmonte July 2, 1930 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 Joseph G. Bradley June 14, 1930 John Cornelius Bresnahan November 14, 1919 Joseph E. Brett May 19, 1907 John R. Buckley 1932 Charles J. Buffone 1919 William Bulger February 2, 1934 Anthony Joseph Burke July 17, 1931 George G. Burke August 3, 1932 Walter T. Burke August 5, 1911 William Francis Butters Louis Buttiglieri May 18, 1916 Fred F. Cain November 5, 1909 Eleanor Campobasso August 10, 1923 Raymond Edward Carey January 6, 1899 William A. Carey January 28, 1920 Philip N. Carney June 6, 1919 Daniel William Carney August 17, 1925 Ralph W. Cartwright Jr. October 5, 1920 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 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 Abraham L. Cohn May 24, 1898 Lincoln P. Cole, Jr. September 18, 1918 Andrew Collaro March 21, 1910 H. Thomas Colo December 27, 1929 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Lloyd E. Conn November 26, 1904 William Augustine Connell, Jr November 17, 1922 George Thomas Contalonis Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 Edward P. Coury October 19, 1927 Russell H. Craig February 4, 1924 James J. Craven, Jr. March 24, 1919 John J. Cronin August 1, 1910 Sidney Curtiss September 4, 1917 John Davoren July 27, 1915 John Joseph Desmond July 1, 1930 Arthur Leo Desrocher January 25, 1930 Theophile Jean DesRoches June 27, 1902 Edward J. Dever, Jr June 21, 1936 Joseph DiCarlo March 21, 1936 Edward M. Dickson March 12, 1912 George DiLorenzo March 24, 1919 Thomas Henry Doherty Jr. August 8, 1930 John F. Dolan September 7, 1922 John F. Donovan Jr. August 21, 1931 James P. Downey January 9, 1911 Charles E. Luke Driscoll October 1, 1909 Wilfred C. Driscoll December 31, 1926 Michael Dukakis November 3, 1933 Richard J. Dwinell August 5, 1917 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 Vernon R. Farnsworth, Jr April 18, 1934 Thomas F. Farrell October 10, 1897 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 William H. Finnegan March 29, 1926 Irving Fishman March 29, 1921 John Joseph Fitzgerald February 28, 1918 Edward M. Flanagan January 9, 1929 Charles L. Flannery March 22, 1920 David Lawrence Flynn February 5, 1933 Bernard J. Pat Foley July 20, 1917 Jeremiah J. Foley October 28, 1915 John Winslow Frenning July 19, 1922 Albert A. Gammal Jr. 1928 Lester J. Gates T. Harold Gayron August 31, 1914 Julie Gilligan August 5, 1911 Joel S. Greenberg May 31, 1930 James L. Grimaldi May 3, 1911 Anthony P. Grosso October 19, 1913 Gerard A. Guilmette October 22, 1911 Samuel Harmon April 29, 1911 Michael J. Harrington September 2, 1936 Edward D. Harrington Jr. August 11, 1921 David E. Harrison June 19, 1933 Francis W. Hatch Jr. May 6, 1925 Michael E. Haynes May 9, 1927 Winston Healy October 20, 1937 Timothy William Hickey February 14, 1938 William Francis Hogan June 6, 1925 Franklin W. Holgate May 3, 1929 Herbert B. Hollis September 10, 1899 Marie Elizabeth Howe June 13, 1939 Charles Iannello April 25, 1906 John Peter Ivascyn October 19, 1909 John Janas September 4, 1910 Carl R. Johnson Jr. August 22, 1926 Katherine Kane April 12, 1935 Joseph M. Kearney February 23, 1927 James H. Kelly October 15, 1919 Gregory Benjamin Khachadoorian July 8, 1928 Cornelius F. Kiernan August 15, 1917 Philip Kimball June 6, 1918 Edward P. Kirby January 10, 1928 William I. Kitterman July 19, 1928 Benjamin Klebanow November 2, 1900 Freyda Koplow October 26, 1907 Walter Kostanski December 10, 1923 Mitsie T. Kulig May 18, 1921 Matthew J. Kuss December 5, 1915 Richard E. Landry May 29, 1936 J. Louis Leblanc January 6, 1940 Peter J. Levanti March 19, 1903 David H. Locke August 4, 1927 Alexander Lolas July 9, 1932 Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 John J. Long December 10, 1927 William Longworth August 17, 1914 Joseph S. Loughman January 11, 1928 William Q. MacLean Jr. November 4, 1934 J. Robert Mahan December 14, 1903 Paul F. Malloy April 29, 1940 Theodore D. Mann May 13, 1922 Donald J. Manning June 23, 1929 Thomas W. McGee May 24, 1924 Robert J. McGinn December 18, 1918 John J. McGlynn February 26, 1922 Allan McGuane July 26, 1928 Arthur James McKenna October 29, 1914 James Robert McMahon Jr. John F. Melia June 5, 1915 Paul C. Menton April 15, 1925 William James Moran June 24, 1921 Hugh J. Morgan Jr. April 4, 1921 Gerald J. Morrissey May 20, 1927 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 Albert L. Nash May 13, 1921 John J. Navin September 9, 1915 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 Karl S. Nordin September 10, 1906 James Anthony O'Brien, Jr June 22, 1919 John Paul O'Brien June 10, 1937 Walter Wilson O'Brien October 14, 1910 David J. O'Connor November 9, 1924 George Henry O'Farrell November 15, 1910 Charles Ohanian September 2, 1936 Domenick S. Pasciucco August 1, 1921 Raymond S. Peck December 10, 1922 Felix Perrault October 27, 1915 Albert P. Pettoruto September 29, 1915 George William Porter November 6, 1885 Robert H. Quinn January 30, 1928 Manuel Raposa, Jr. May 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 William G. Robinson March 10, 1926 J. Hilary Rockett January 16, 1935 George Rogers (Massachusetts politician) August 2, 1933 Maurice E. Ronayne, Jr November 16, 1917 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 Duane Thomas Sargisson Joseph Douglas Saulnier April 14, 1906 Anthony James Scalli November 11, 1914 Frederic W. Schlosstein, Jr March 17, 1923 Anthony M. Scibelli October 16, 1911 John W. Sears December 18, 1930 Jerome A. Segal June 3, 1931 George W. Shattuck July 17, 1916 Charles Louis Shea June 28, 1927 Thomas A. Sheehan March 21, 1933 Paul J. Sheehy November 1, 1934 Aaron M. I. Shinberg Alfred R. Shrigley June 6, 1914 Andre Rives Sigourney June 30, 1927 Michael John Simonelli May 9, 1913 Ralph E. Sirianni Jr. 1923 Lawrence Philip Smith December 4, 1919 George William Spartichino June 11, 1924 George I. Spatcher February 2, 1902 Janet Kirkland Starr October 11, 1918 Chandler Harrison Stevens Joseph A. Sylvia August 19, 1892 A. Edward Talbot January 24, 1915 Frank Daniel Tanner February 3, 1888 John F. Thompson (politician) May 20, 1920 David Spence Tobin March 16, 1939 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Joseph Thomas Travaline Warren A. Turner January 25, 1905 Elbert Tuttle August 19, 1931 George E. Twomey February 3, 1920 John Taylor Tynan June 7, 1920 Dave Norman Vigneault September 3, 1936 George B. Walsh March 21, 1907 Joseph B. Walsh November 15, 1923 Martin H. Walsh July 31, 1916 Stephen Weekes February 1, 1925 Norman S. Weinberg 1919 Robert D. Wetmore July 24, 1930 James G. Wheeler Arthur Williams December 14, 1915 Thomas Casmere Wojtkowski September 18, 1926 Edward S. Zelazo May 27, 1924 Samuel Zoll June 20, 1934

See also 89th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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