151st
Massachusetts General Court
←150th 152nd→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 8, 1938
Senate
Members40
PresidentJoseph R. Cotton (7th Middlesex district)
Party controlRepublican[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerChristian Herter (5th Suffolk)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 4, 1939 (1939-01-04) – August 12, 1939 (1939-08-12)[3]
Joseph R. Cotton
Joseph Cotton, Senate president.
Christian Herter
Christian Herter, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1939.

The 151st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1939 during the governorship of Leverett Saltonstall. Joseph R. Cotton served as president of the Senate and Christian Herter served as speaker of the House.[4]

"1939 was the first year the General Court began meeting every other year instead of annually. ...No session was held in 1940 and no legislation or other materials relating thereof was published during that year."[5]

Senators

portrait name [6] date of birth [7] district [7]
 Frank David Babcock August 16, 1877 4th Essex
 Wilfred P. Bazinet
Chandler Bigelow
Arthur Franklin Blanchard January 27, 1883
David M. Brackman
Thomas M. Burke May 30, 1898
Albert Cole (Massachusetts politician) December 28, 1904
Louis Benedict Connors
Joseph R. Cotton November 16, 1890
Laurence Curtis September 3, 1893
Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907
Joseph F. Francis July 2, 1893
Eugene H. Giroux January 20, 1903
Angier Goodwin January 30, 1881
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn June 7, 1883
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875
Arthur W. Hollis April 29, 1877
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891
Jarvis Hunt (politician) March 28, 1904
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872
John E. Kerrigan October 1, 1908
George W. Krapf
Thomas J. Lane July 6, 1898
Joseph A. Langone Jr. September 8, 1896
Harold R. Lundgren May 22, 1894
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872
Joseph Patrick McCooey
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879
Joseph F. Montminy
Edward O'Hearn Mullowney
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869
Edwin Lawrence Olander October 31, 1891
Edmund S. Oppenheimer
Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887
Mason Sears December 29, 1899
Chester T. Skibinski
Bernard Lucian Sullivan

Representatives

portrait name [6] date of birth [7] district [7]
 Wilfred J. Achin May 12, 1891 14th Middlesex
 William A. Akeroyd October 24, 1883
Theodore Andrews August 23, 1893
George T. Ashe February 6, 1905
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Robert S. Backus
William Brooks Baker January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet December 2, 1892
Frederick M. Barnicoat
George L. Barrus December 15, 1880
Thomas A. Barry May 12, 1895
Walter Ray Baylies April 28, 1902
Fred D. Beaudoin
Malcolm Lawrie Bell November 30, 1890
Albert Bergeron June 28, 1877
Albert Bergeron June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
Albert F. Bigelow October 4, 1880
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
Edward Boland October 1, 1911
Albert Lionel Bourgeois June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
G. Edward Bradley October 21, 1906
Edward T. Brady October 23, 1908
Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom June 25, 1899
J. Kenney Brooks
Russell P. Brown August 24, 1891
Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
Arthur I. Burgess October 13, 1894
Harland Burke April 22, 1888
John F. Burns
J. Elmer Callahan
Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879
Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887
Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875
Enrico Cappucci 1910
Andrew F. Carlin
Gustaf A. Carlson
Fred Carpenter
Sydney G. Carpenter Jr.
John Henry Carroll
Eddie D. Carson
William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905
Bernard P. Casey July 29, 1894
John M. Cawley
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
Frank Clarkson June 21, 1877
Andrew J. Coakley November 6, 1906
John W. Coddaire Jr.
James S. Coffey February 5, 1899
John T. Comerford June 8, 1887
Michael H. Condron
Michael John Conway
Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878
Arthur W. Coolidge October 13, 1881
August Joseph Cormier
George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905
Francis X. Coyne March 15, 1892
Thomas F. Coyne
John Joseph Craven August 29, 1907
Nelson B. Crosby June 20, 1871
Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911
Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890
Lawrence Harvard Davis
George F. Dean
Hiram Nichols Dearborn December 21, 1867
Roger Dennett September 14, 1895
Oscar DeRoy
Leo E. Diehl
Grover N. Dodge
Fred Belding Dole January 23, 1895
Cornelius P. Donovan March 15, 1895
Susan Bradley Donovan October 2, 1895
Joseph H. Downey December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891
Edwin F. Eldredge
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
Gustave William Everberg June 24, 1890
Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907
William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907
Keith Falconer Fletcher September 24, 1900
Paul W. Foster
Douglass Brooks Francis
Stephen L. French March 9, 1892
Clarence Henry Fuller
Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904
Thomas F. Gibson
William R. Gilman
Paul Martin Goddard
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
Peter J. Graham
Thomas J. Hannon December 9, 1900
Joseph J. Harnisch December 28, 1883
William Henry Haskell
William Alexander Hastings February 22, 1868
Lawrence Alanson Haworth May 23, 1871
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
Christian Herter March 28, 1895
Joseph Allan Hines
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Theodore P. Hollis
Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892
Hugh C. Hunter
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
George A. Innes
Harvey Iris
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
William A. Jones March 27, 1885
Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910
Harry Kalus
Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
John Joseph Kerrigan Jr.
John V. Kimball July 17, 1875
Rudolph King November 2, 1887
John Quincy Knowles May 21, 1895
Morris Kritzman
Leo P. Landry July 10, 1897
John Whitin Lasell
Laurence W. Law
Walter E. Lawrence December 8, 1905
George J. Leary
Frank M. Leonardi August 17, 1891
Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899
Thomas E. Linehan
Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr. August 29, 1907
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
Joseph Francis Luz
Philip J. Lynch
Donald Alexander MacDonald February 21, 1893
Frank E. MacLean
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912
John Francis Manning January 4, 1906
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
James P. McAndrews
Charles Joseph McCaffrey January 16, 1898
Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902
Thomas Francis McCready
James Patrick McDevitt
James J. McGrail
Lawrence P. McHugh
Hubert L. McLaughlin
George Francis McMahon
Philip McMorrow
James Joseph Mellen June 16, 1910
Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902
Julian R. Merchant
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Daniel Joseph Minihan
William E. Mooney
Alfred James Moore August 7, 1891
Walter James Moran December 22, 1903
Lester Bertram Morley April 19, 1903
Albert Edward Morris April 4, 1903
Frank J. Morrison September 2, 1902
Eric A. Nelson July 6, 1899
Michael J. Neville October 19, 1899
Leo F. Nourse
Joseph N. O'Kane May 26, 1873
Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912
George Joseph O'Shea November 16, 1899
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
David M. Owens Jr.
Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895
George Alanson Parker
Royal Bartlett Patriquin January 7, 1895
James Austin Peckham
Harold Squire Pedler
Tycho Mouritz Petersen August 29, 1892
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
Roy W. Pigeon
John E. Powers November 10, 1910
John D. Pratt
Benjamin B. Priest
William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895
William G. Reed
George Edmund Rice February 22, 1899
Ralph Lewis Ricketson
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Charles Holmes Roberts Jr.
George Whiting Roberts
Nathan Rosenfeld January 31, 1906
Cyrus Cole Rounseville Jr.
William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879
Albert Rubin January 15, 1872
William F. Runnells February 18, 1865
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
William J. Sessions December 18, 1859
Philip Sherman
Edward Sirois December 18, 1898
Frank William Smith January 26, 1895
George E. Smith
Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890
H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914
J. Francis Southgate May 4, 1883
Manford Root Spalding
Richard H. Stacy August 18, 1864
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
Avery W. Steele August 1, 1907
George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902
Leo J. Sullivan December 8, 1905
Charles F. Jeff Sullivan
Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905
John Timothy Sullivan March 27, 1906
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
Martin Swanson July 20, 1872
Chester Randall Swenson
Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903
Valmore P. Tetreault
Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903
James Francis Tobin May 8, 1903
John E. Troy Jr.
Herbert Lewis Trull
Cornelius Joseph Twomey
Christopher J. Tyrrell June 21, 1895
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
James L. Vallely
John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878
James T. Violette
Ira C. Ward March 7, 1862
John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881
Edgar A. Whitcomb
John Philip White
William Emmet White June 1, 1900
Otis M. Whitney March 25, 1909
Joseph L. Whiton
Ralph E. Williams
Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904
Carl A. Woekel
Henry Eden Wright
Morton E. York
Arthur Lincoln Youngman
Abraham I. Zimon

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Composition of the Massachusetts State Senate", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  2. ↑ "Composition of the State of Massachusetts House of Representatives", Resources on Massachusetts Political Figures in the State Library, Mass.gov, archived from the original on June 6, 2020
  3. ↑ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  4. ↑ "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2005. p. 338+.
  5. ↑ Kaitlin Connolly (January 5, 2016), "Short-Lived Biennial Legislative Session System in Massachusetts", State Library of Massachusetts blog
  6. 1 2 Public Officials of Massachusetts 1939-'40. Boston Review. 1939.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1939" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts

Further reading

  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1938), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1939, hdl:2452/43430
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1939). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40708.
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