The 155th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met from January 1, 1947, to June 18, 1948, during the governorship of Robert F. Bradford, in Boston.

State Senate

Districts As established by Chapter 507 of the Acts of 1939. The state census of 1935 was the basis of the apportionment.

(*)Terminated. See Acts of 1927, chapter 321; Acts of 1938, chapter 240 and 455.

Senators District Portrait Senator Date of birth Party Hometown Notes Berkshire Michael H. Condron DemocraticPittsfield BristolFirst Willard A. Ormsbee RepublicanRaynhamChairman, Aeronautics; chairman, Mercantile AffairsSecond William Emmet White June 1, 1900 DemocraticFall RiverThird Edward C. Peirce March 7, 1895 DemocraticNew Bedford Cape and Plymouth Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 RepublicanWarehamPresident of the Senate; chairman, Rules EssexFirst Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897 DemocraticLynnSecond J. Elmer Callahan RepublicanSalemChairman, Constitutional LawThird Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 RepublicanRowleyChairman, State AdministrationFourth Philip K. Allen January 3, 1910 RepublicanAndoverChairman, AgricultureFifth Michael A. Flanagan February 21, 1890 DemocraticLawrence Franklin and Hampshire Ralph Collins Mahar January 4, 1912 RepublicanOrangeChairman, Education; chairman, Public Health HampdenFirst Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896 RepublicanSpringfieldChairman, Military Affairs and Public SafetySecond William E. Nolen DemocraticHolyoke Hampden, Hampshire and Berkshire Ralph Lerche August 19, 1899 RepublicanNorthamptonChairman, Cities; chairman, Water Supply MiddlesexFirst William C. Geary DemocraticLowellSecond Edward Rowe (politician) March 17, 1902 RepublicanCambridgeChairman, Legal Affairs; chairman, TaxationThird Burton F. Faulkner DemocraticSomervilleFourth Sumner G. Whittier July 4, 1911 RepublicanEverettChairman, Civil Service; chairman, Departmental Rules and RegulationsFifth Richard I. Furbush January 4, 1904 RepublicanWalthamChairman, Conservation; chairman, Power and LightSixth Harris S. Richardson January 10, 1887 RepublicanWinchesterChairman, Ways and MeansSeventh George Jelly Evans February 4, 1909 RepublicanWakefieldChairman, Labor and Industries; chairman, Pensions Middlesex and Norfolk Charles William Olson August 24, 1889 RepublicanAshlandChairman, Public Lands; chairman, Public Welfare Middlesex and Suffolk Richard Henry Lee December 20, 1901 RepublicanNewtonChairman, Public Service NorfolkFirst John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 RepublicanQuincyChairman, JudiciarySecond Mason Sears December 29, 1899 RepublicanDedhamChairman, Election Laws Norfolk and Plymouth Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 RepublicanWeymouthChairman, Bills in the Third Reading; chairman, Counties Norfolk and Suffolk Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899 RepublicanBrooklineChairman, Metropolitan Affairs Plymouth Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 RepublicanBrocktonChairman, Engrossed Bills; chairman, Municipal Finance SuffolkFirst Joseph A. Melley March 1, 1902 DemocraticChelseaSecond Michael LoPresti June 25, 1908 DemocraticBostonThird Charles John Innes June 1, 1901 RepublicanBostonChairman, InsuranceFourth John E. Powers November 10, 1910 DemocraticBostonFifth Chester A. Dolan Jr. September 20, 1907 DemocraticBostonMinority Floor LeaderSixth Charles I. Taylor November 25, 1899 DemocraticBostonSeventh Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907 DemocraticBoston WorcesterFirst William Daniel Fleming April 14, 1907 DemocraticWorcesterSecond Harry P. McAllister April 25, 1880 RepublicanWorcesterChairman, Banks and BankingThird George W. Stanton DemocraticFitchburgFourth Joseph Simon Virostek RepublicanDouglasChairman, Towns; chairman, Transportation Worcester and Hampden Edward William Staves May 9, 1887 RepublicanSouthbridgeChairman, Highways and Motor Vehicles

Employees Irving N. Hayden, Clerk of the Senate Thomas A. Chadwick, Assistant Clerk of the Senate William F. Dillon, Clerical Assistant to Clerk of the Senate Frederick May Elliot, Chaplain of the Senate William F. Furbush, Secretary to the President of the Senate and Clerk of the Senate Committee on Rules Fernald Hutchins, Counsel to the Senate Thomas R. Bateman, Assistant Counsel to the Senate Royal B. Patriquin, Assistant to Counsel of the Senate

Representatives portrait name date of birth district Frank Haskell Allen October 12, 1877 7th Worcester Richard James Allen June 22, 1909 Horace Thurber Aplington John A. Armstrong June 12, 1901 Charles J. Artesani Edward C. Ashworth April 22, 1899 John George Asiaf June 30, 1900 Joseph A. Aspero Samuel Greenleaf Atkinson Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880 Everett Breed Bacheller August 24, 1895 Earle S. Bagley January 20, 1905 William B. Bailey December 11, 1892 Laurence H. Banks Cyrus Barnes August 23, 1889 George L. Barrus December 15, 1880 Michael J. Batal September 8, 1898 Norman S. Baxter Raymond H. Beach August 11, 1888 William Berthiaume G. Leo Bessette September 23, 1906 Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911 Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895 Frank Edwin Boot November 8, 1905 Stanley John Borsa Gerald Timothy Bowler Gordon Dickson Boynton August 9, 1901 Jeremiah Francis Brennan Daniel Joseph Bresnahan September 30, 1888 Clarence B. Brown December 22, 1877 Frank Eben Brown January 14, 1890 John D. Brown January 30, 1900 Archie Edward Bruce August 20, 1883 James A. Burke (Massachusetts politician) March 30, 1910 Harland Burke April 22, 1888 Philip Courtland Burr Fannie Buzzell March 31, 1914 Oscar Josiah Cahoon April 29, 1912 Colin James Cameron August 24, 1879 Robert Patterson Campbell December 20, 1887 Matthew J. Capeless June 4, 1875 Enrico Cappucci 1910 Ernest Westervelt Carman Arthur B. Carney Jr. John Henry Carroll William J. Casey (Massachusetts politician) June 27, 1905 Daniel Casey May 7, 1890 Francis X. Casey Harrison Chadwick February 25, 1903 Wendell Phillips Chamberlain October 28, 1911 Philip Aloysius Chapman William G. Clark Jr. May 6, 1912 David M. Cleary May 9, 1901 Thomas Francis Coady 1878 John F. Collins July 20, 1919 11th Suffolk Dana S. Collins J. Everett Collins April 27, 1894 James Francis Condon February 4, 1899 Joseph T. Conley Robert Gerard Connolly September 11, 1916 Michael John Conway Leo Joseph Cournoyer December 11, 1905 George Chauncey Cousens September 20, 1905 William A. Cowing January 6, 1878 Earl Gustavus Crockett March 23, 1894 Patrick Francis Cronin Jeremiah Dickson Crowley May 16, 1911 Walter A. Cuffe January 29, 1898 John G. Curley Leslie Bradley Cutler March 24, 1890 Lawrence Harvard Davis George Walter Dean Ernest DeRoy July 13, 1889 Cornelius Desmond October 4, 1893 Burt Dewar December 29, 1884 Logan Rockwell Dickie May 4, 1890 Vincent B. Dignam February 22, 1896 Jacinto F. Diniz October 3, 1888 Edmond J. Donlan December 19, 1899 Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895 Charles D. Driscoll June 18, 1888 Howard Bernard Driscoll Joseph Edward Duffy September 25, 1912 Henry M. Duggan October 5, 1896 Ernest W. Dullea January 14, 1891 Henry Allen Ellis November 5, 1879 Thomas Edward Enright August 1, 1881 Andrew E. Faulkner September 23, 1913 Michael Paul Feeney March 26, 1907 Charles E. Ferguson January 30, 1894 Maurice Edward Fitzgerald Peter F. Fitzgerald February 16, 1889 William J. Fitzsimons Norman Eugene Folsom December 23, 1903 John F. Foster Stephen L. French March 9, 1892 George Fuller July 24, 1893 John L. Gallant Charles Gibbons July 21, 1901 Frank S. Giles June 15, 1915 Avery W. Gilkerson June 5, 1899 Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885 Thomas T. Gray July 22, 1892 George Greene March 7, 1897 12th Suffolk Francis G. Gregory Frederick C. Haigis May 10, 1903 Jacob Hakala James Edward Hannon Francis Appleton Harding 1908 Fred C. Harrington April 21, 1902 William E. Hays November 28, 1903 Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901 James Alan Hodder Charles F. Holman June 21, 1892 J. Philip Howard February 16, 1907 Richard Lester Hull November 30, 1917 Nathaniel M. Hurwitz March 24, 1893 Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881 C. Vernon Inett William Whittem Jenness April 3, 1904 Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885 Ernest A. Johnson March 13, 1897 Stanley Everett Johnson October 4, 1911 Peter John Jordan July 23, 1910 Jeremiah Kamens Charles Kaplan September 26, 1895 Clarence Karelitz Warren Charles Karner Alfred B. Keith November 26, 1893 Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890 Richard A. Kelly August 7, 1905 Thomas E. Key Allan Roy Kingston November 23, 1901 Fred I. Lamson December 11, 1910 George Thomas Lanigan January 4, 1909 Laurence W. Law Francis W. Lindstrom December 18, 1898 Louis Lobel August 10, 1911 C. Edwin Lofgren Gerald P. Lombard January 4, 1916 Raymond Joseph Lord Burton Elmer Loring C. Gerald Lucey September 8, 1913 Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900 Vincent Ambrose Mannering July 11, 1912 10th Suffolk George Edward Marchand December 22, 1877 William Markland Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897 George Francis Martin Jr. Francis V. Matera Michael J. McCarthy (politician) October 23, 1890 Frank D. McCarthy Paul Andrew McCarthy December 23, 1902 Elmer L. McCulloch Samuel D. McLeod Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883 Sherman Miles December 5, 1882 Hugh Morton Edward J. Mulligan February 8, 1907 Robert F. Murphy (politician) January 24, 1899 George Bernard Murphy Jr. Cornelius Joseph Murray August 19, 1890 Harold Clinton Nagle July 27, 1917 Louis K. Nathanson 12th Suffolk George Burkman Norton James Anthony O'Brien October 27, 1886 William Thomas O'Brien December 2, 1889 John Henry O'Connor Jr. December 9, 1917 Louis F. O'Keefe June 12, 1895 Tip O'Neill December 9, 1912 Frank B. Oliveira Harold A. Palmer October 15, 1906 Raymond P. Palmer December 27, 1895 Anthony Parenzo Eben Parsons Clark Brownson Partridge August 26, 1878 Henry W. Pickford Gabriel Piemonte January 28, 1909 Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862 2nd Franklin George William Porter November 6, 1885 Harvey Armand Pothier September 6, 1901 George E. Rawson December 6, 1886 Thomas Francis Reilly August 12, 1903 Hibbard Richter April 12, 1899 Hallam Taylor Ring Joseph D. Rivest Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883 Albert E. Roberts November 22, 1875 William H. J. Rowan June 21, 1879 Daniel Rudsten Kendall Ainsworth Sanderson Thomas Aloysius Scanlan Raymond William Schlapp William Henry Sears Jr. July 14, 1875 A. John Serino March 13, 1906 Henry Lee Shattuck October 12, 1879 John M. Shea December 8, 1902 Arthur Joseph Sheehan March 16, 1897 Robert T. Sisson February 21, 1881 Michael F. Skerry January 3, 1909 Charles J. Skladzien Roy C. Smith January 28, 1890 H. Edward Snow April 25, 1914 Margaret Spear August 10, 1882 George Ward Stetson May 31, 1902 Daniel Francis Sullivan February 15, 1904 Jeremiah Joseph Sullivan March 9, 1905 Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904 Paul A. Sullivan Ralph Warren Sullivan Joseph A. Sylvia Jr. September 16, 1903 Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898 Clarence F. Telford Nathaniel Tilden November 3, 1903 Harold Edward Tivey Harold Tompkins August 23, 1887 John Joseph Toomey March 25, 1909 Talbot T. Tweedy James Joseph Twohig Jr. May 2, 1908 Earle Stanley Tyler December 18, 1896 Theodore Jack Vaitses May 8, 1901 John H. Valentine July 21, 1896 John W. Vaughan March 20, 1878 James T. Violette William X. Wall July 1, 1904 Joseph Francis Walsh February 9, 1907 John Cummings Webster Jr. Norman F. Wellen John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881 Malcolm Stuart White Howard J. Whitmore Jr. May 9, 1905 John S. Whittemore Frederick Willis (American politician) May 18, 1904 Henry D. Winslow September 24, 1910 Stanislaus George Wondolowski August 20, 1909 Albert E. Wood Clarence A. Wood Lawrence Theodore Woolfenden Arthur Eaton Young Arthur Lincoln Youngman

See also 1948 Massachusetts gubernatorial election 80th United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts

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