1963–1964 Massachusetts legislature

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.[4]

163rd
Massachusetts General Court
162nd 164th
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
TermJanuary 2, 1963 (1963-01-02) – July 4, 1964 (1964-07-04) [1]
Senate
Members40 [2]
PresidentJohn E. Powers
Majority LeaderMaurice A. Donahue
Minority LeaderPhilip A. Graham
Party controlDemocrat[2]
House
Members240 [3]
SpeakerJohn F. Thompson
Majority LeaderJohn Davoren
Majority WhipRobert H. Quinn
Minority LeaderSidney Curtiss
Minority WhipAlfred R. Shrigley
Party controlDemocrat[3]
John E. Powers
John Powers, Senate president.
John F. Thompson
John Thompson, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1963-1964.

On May 9, 1964, a special grand jury indicted House speaker Thompson on 29 counts of bribery.[5] 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.[6]

Senators

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portrait name [4] date of birth [7] district [7]
 
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

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portrait name [4] date of birth [7] district [7]
 
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[8] 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 [9] 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
 
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

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References

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  1. ^ "Length of Legislative Sessions". Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2009. p. 348+.
  2. ^ a b "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
  3. ^ a b "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
  4. ^ a b c 1963–1964 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1963 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ "Massachusetts Speaker and 25 Indicted in Corruption Inquiry", New York Times, May 9, 1964
  6. ^ Feldberg, Michael (2015). UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth-Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. pp. 10–15. ISBN 978-1625341693.
  7. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1963" (PDF), Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  8. ^ Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court: 1867-Present, State Library of Massachusetts, 2010, hdl:2452/48905
  9. ^ State Library of Massachusetts, "Massachusetts State Legislator's Papers Collections at the State Library", Mass.gov, retrieved September 3, 2020

Further reading

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  • Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1963. hdl:2452/40796.
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