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149th
Massachusetts General Court
←148th 150th→
Overview
Legislative bodyGeneral Court
ElectionNovember 6, 1934
Senate
Members40
PresidentJames G. Moran (1st Bristol district)
Party controlRepublican (21–19)[1]
House
Members240
SpeakerLeverett Saltonstall (5th Middlesex)
Party controlRepublican[2]
Sessions
1stJanuary 2, 1935 (1935-01-02) – August 15, 1935 (1935-08-15)
2ndJanuary 1, 1936 (1936-01-01) – July 2, 1936 (1936-07-02)[3]
James Moran
James Moran, Senate president.
Leverett Saltonstall
Leverett Saltonstall, House speaker.
Leaders of the Massachusetts General Court, 1935.

The 149th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1935 and 1936 during the governorship of James Michael Curley. James G. Moran served as president of the Senate and Leverett Saltonstall served as speaker of the House.[4]

Senators

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Portrait Name [5] Date of Birth [6] District [6] Hometown Party Since
Thomas M. Burke May 30, 1898 8th Suffolk Dorchester Democratic 1935
Edward C. Carroll December 15, 1893 4th Suffolk South Boston Democratic 1933
Patrick Eugene Casey September 24, 1886 4th Worcester Milford Democratic 1935
Charles Thomas Cavanagh June 12, 1893 2nd Middlesex Cambridge Democratic 1934
Albert Cole (Massachusetts politician) December 28, 1904 1st Essex Lynn Republican 1935
William S. Conroy October 2, 1877 2nd Bristol Fall River Democratic 1929
Walter L. Considine August 7, 1900 3rd Bristol New Bedford Democratic 1935
Joseph R. Cotton November 16, 1890 7th Middlesex Lexington Republican 1927
Charles Thomas Daly March 12, 1882 6th Middlesex Medford Democratic 1935
William Aiken Davenport October 23, 1869 Franklin and Hampshire Greenfield Republican 1935
Joseph P. Donahoe September 18, 1891 7th Suffolk Dorchester Democratic 1935
John F. Donovan April 26, 1897 1st Suffolk Chelsea Democratic 1935
Edgar C. Erickson July 18, 1896 2nd Worcester Worcester Republican 1933
Erland F. Fish December 7, 1883 Norfolk and Suffolk Brookline Republican 1925
Angier Goodwin January 30, 1881 4th Middlesex Melrose Republican 1929
Cornelius F. Haley July 15, 1875 3rd Essex Rowley Republican 1927
Arthur W. Hollis April 29, 1877 1st Middlesex Newton Republican 1929
Newland H. Holmes August 30, 1891 Norfolk and Plymouth Weymouth Republican 1931
Frank Hurley March 9, 1900 2nd Hampden Holyoke Democratic 1929
Thomas H. Johnston March 5, 1872 Worcester and Hampden Clinton Republican 1931
Joseph A. Langone Jr. September 8, 1896 2nd Suffolk Boston Democratic 1933
John D. Mackay April 7, 1872 Norfolk Quincy Republican 1930
William Francis Madden January 4, 1897 5th Suffolk Jamaica Plain Democratic 1933
Charles Albert Proctor McAree November 3, 1908 4th Essex Haverhill Democratic 1935
William F. McCarthy November 9, 1902 8th Middlesex Lowell Democratic 1935
Francis M. McKeown 1st Hampden Springfield Democratic 1935
James Philip Meehan June 25, 1893 5th Essex Lawrence Democratic 1934
Charles Gardner Miles December 2, 1879 Plymouth Brockton Republican 1933
James G. Moran May 2, 1870 1st Bristol Mansfield Republican 1923
George G. Moyse December 21, 1878 5th Middlesex Waltham Republican 1925
Donald W. Nicholson August 11, 1888 Cape and Plymouth Wareham Republican 1927
Edward H. Nutting July 6, 1869 3rd Worcester Leominster Republican 1931
Henry Parkman Jr. April 26, 1894 3rd Suffolk Boston Republican 1929
Albert Pierce February 29, 1876 2nd Essex Salem Republican 1935
Theodore Robinson Plunkett May 10, 1882 Berkshire Adams Republican 1931
Harry Bancroft Putnam September 7, 1878 Berkshire, Hampshire, and Hampden Westfield Republican 1933
James Conlan Scanlan December 18, 1896 3rd Middlesex Somerville Democratic 1931
John S. Sullivan December 18, 1875 1st Worcester Worcester Democratic 1933
Joseph C. White 1899 6th Suffolk Jamaica Plain Democratic 1933
Samuel H. Wragg June 9, 1882 Norfolk and Middlesex Needham Republican 1925

Representatives

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Portrait Name [5] Date of Birth [6] District [6]
Henry Achin Jr. June 30, 1883 14th Middlesex
Augustine Airola
William A. Akeroyd October 24, 1883
George T. Ashe February 6, 1905
John Francis Aspell July 8, 1906
Frank David Babcock August 16, 1877
Josiah Babcock Jr. May 21, 1880
Edward P. Bacigalupo October 19, 1897
William Brooks Baker January 10, 1879
William A. Baldwin January 18, 1874
Philip Barnet December 2, 1892
Mary Livermore Barrows[7] June 30, 1877
Thomas Edmund Barry May 14, 1899
Stanley Spilsted Bates August 10, 1890
Walter Ray Baylies April 28, 1902
Malcolm Lawrie Bell November 30, 1890
Albert Bergeron June 23, 1886
Alfred M. Bessette March 25, 1876
Rodolphe G. Bessette September 14, 1911
Albert F. Bigelow October 4, 1880 10th Norfolk
Leo Birmingham April 14, 1893
Fred Arthur Blake January 13, 1895
Edward Boland October 1, 1911
Rufus Hallowell Bond December 24, 1896
Albert Lionel Bourgeois June 7, 1899
Philip Griggs Bowker April 17, 1899
Albert Ovila Boyer May 27, 1908
Edward T. Brady October 23, 1908
Fred Emerson Briggs March 14, 1875
Emma E. Brigham June 10, 1872
Warren Kingsbury Brimblecom June 25, 1899
William Albert Brown February 5, 1888
Arthur I. Burgess October 13, 1894
Horace T. Cahill December 12, 1894
Zacheus H. Cande
Leo Edward Joseph Carney November 16, 1899
Michael Joseph Carroll June 21, 1891
Bernard P. Casey July 29, 1894
Tony A. Centracchio May 25, 1906
Chester W. Chase August 27, 1885
Ralph Vester Clampit March 28, 1896
Frank Clarkson June 21, 1877
Ignatius B. Cleary May 19, 1892
Joseph Francis Cleary September 4, 1901
Francis David Coady January 20, 1884
Andrew J. Coakley November 6, 1906
John W. Coddaire Jr.
Edward A. Coffey October 17, 1892
Samuel H. Cohen
John T. Comerford June 8, 1887
Richard Comerford October 13, 1905
Edward J. Connelly October 10, 1876
Charles H. Cooke May 13, 1878
Timothy Joseph Cooney September 30, 1909
Frank Bernard Coughlin January 11, 1891
Francis X. Coyne March 15, 1892
Nelson B. Crosby June 20, 1871
Ralph Raymond Currier October 28, 1892
Laurence Curtis September 3, 1893
Ernest J. Dean April 5, 1883
Hiram Nichols Dearborn December 21, 1867
Thomas A. Delmore December 21, 1894
George Demeter March 13, 1896
Burt Dewar December 29, 1884
Thomas Patrick Dillon February 19, 1901
Fred Belding Dole January 23, 1895
John Joseph Donahue March 14, 1906
Martin William Donahue January 4, 1893
James P. Donnelly February 26, 1890
Cornelius P. Donovan March 15, 1895
Joseph William Dooley October 25, 1904
Thomas Dorgan August 15, 1892
Joseph H. Downey December 6, 1890
Anthony R. Doyle August 8, 1895
George F. Driscoll
Clarence N. Durant May 15, 1884
Sven August Erickson December 9, 1875
Henry A. Estabrook April 22, 1850
Gustave William Everberg June 24, 1890
John J. Falvey February 22, 1904
Bernard Finkelstein July 4, 1887
Thomas A. Flaherty December 21, 1898
Thomas J. Flannery August 9, 1886
Frank L. Floyd October 17, 1893
John J. Foley January 25, 1888
Katherine A. Foley May 10, 1889
Owen Gallagher November 12, 1884
John J. Gilmartin September 25, 1892
Eugene H. Giroux January 20, 1903
John Leo Gleason June 27, 1903
Hollis M. Gott May 25, 1885
William Patrick Grant November 5, 1904
James A. Gunn June 7, 1883
John Halliwell February 21, 1864
Ralph N. Hamilton November 16, 1898
William Arthur Hannaford October 14, 1892
Thomas J. Hannon December 9, 1900
Joseph J. Harnisch December 28, 1883
George Paterson Hassett May 25, 1888
William Alexander Hastings February 22, 1868
James Dolan Hathaway November 17, 1907
Clayton Locke Havey July 17, 1897
Martin Hays October 14, 1876
Jeremiah Joseph Healy July 2, 1872
Charles W. Hedges March 27, 1901
James W. Hennigan Sr. 1890
Christian Herter March 28, 1895
William Francis Higgins June 16, 1899
Charles V. Hogan April 12, 1897
Daniel J. Honan January 19, 1884
Frank Hathaway Horton July 15, 1874
Fred A. Hutchinson April 5, 1881
Charles John Innes June 1, 1901
Francis William Irwin November 19, 1905
Adolph Johnson July 20, 1885
Archibald L. Jones June 26, 1900
Gerald Denison Jones August 24, 1878
William A. Jones March 27, 1885
Michael H. Jordan February 7, 1863
Patrick Joseph Kearns September 8, 1912
Charles A. Kelley March 24, 1862
Edward J. Kelley December 25, 1897
Francis Joseph Kelley March 21, 1890
James Edward Kendall September 4, 1870
James J. Kiley July 5, 1911
George F. Killgoar
John V. Kimball July 17, 1875
Orvis F. Kinney May 23, 1880
William E. Kirkpatrick November 12, 1901
John Quincy Knowles May 21, 1895
George M. Kurzon
William Landergan August 28, 1899
Leo P. Landry July 10, 1897
Thomas J. Lane July 6, 1898
John Whitin Lasell
Frank M. Leonardi August 17, 1891
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. July 5, 1902
Terrance Joseph Lomax Jr. August 29, 1907
Clarence S. Luitwieler
William Christopher Lunney December 24, 1910
John P. Lyons June 24, 1879
Donald Alexander MacDonald February 21, 1893
Frank E. MacLean
Arthur Ulton Mahan June 18, 1900
James Francis Mahoney September 24, 1890
John Francis Manning January 4, 1906
Philip M. Markley March 28, 1897
Joseph Patrick McCooey
James M. McCracken July 30, 1877
Elmer L. McCulloch
Frederick T. McDermott November 20, 1906
Paul John McDonald
Timothy J. McDonough
James Maxwell McElroy
Lawrence P. McHugh
Henry Parker McLaren
Owen D. McLellan
Roger Alton McNamara
Anthony A. McNulty
William H. Melley May 18, 1903
Joseph A. Milano April 8, 1883
Charles H. Morrill October 6, 1874
Albert Edward Morris April 4, 1903
Frank J. Morrison September 2, 1902
Joseph L. Murphy January 25, 1907
John E. Murphy February 13, 1900
John Joseph Murphy August 28, 1892
Timothy Joseph Murphy September 23, 1909
John A. Murray May 6, 1906
David G. Nagle October 22, 1901
Elmer C. Nelson June 1, 1900
Frank Daniel O'Brien April 25, 1905
Michael T. O'Brien December 3, 1868
Raymond Francis O'Connell August 11, 1901
Joseph N. O'Kane May 26, 1873
Edwin Lawrence Olander October 31, 1891
Charles William Olson August 24, 1889
Ralph Emerson Otis January 16, 1890
Katherine Vose Parker November 16, 1888
Arthur E. Paul January 6, 1902
Richard Farnsworth Paul January 17, 1888
Tycho Mouritz Petersen August 29, 1892
George Wesley Pettengill September 17, 1868
Frederick Everett Pierce May 5, 1862
George Francis Pierce August 13, 1895
William Eben Ramsdell May 4, 1895
Frederick Henry Reinstein April 14, 1899
George Edmund Rice February 22, 1899
Joseph N. Roach March 22, 1883
Victor E. Rolander March 8, 1871
Joseph D. Rolfe May 17, 1893
David A. Rose 1905
Albert Rubin January 15, 1872
Francis Edward Ryan October 6, 1895
Leverett Saltonstall September 1, 1892
Frank Joseph Sargent March 11, 1900
Charles H. Savage January 7, 1893
Roland D. Sawyer January 8, 1874
Louis James Scanlon March 25, 1899
Martin Robert Schofield September 28, 1906
Mason Sears December 29, 1899
William J. Sessions December 18, 1859
John Richard Shaughnessy February 6, 1901
Charles H. Shea December 14, 1891
Frank Chester Sheridan July 21, 1893
Philip Sherman
Edward Sirois December 18, 1898
Harry D. Sisson January 9, 1863
E. Hayes Small December 23, 1876
Frank William Smith January 26, 1895
J. Francis Southgate May 4, 1883
Ernest H. Sparrell
Richard H. Stacy August 18, 1864
Edward William Staves May 9, 1887
George Sawyer Stone February 3, 1866
Patrick Gilbert Sullivan November 18, 1904
William T. Swain December 2, 1878
Martin Swanson July 20, 1872
Mollie Ashby Sweetser April 17, 1882
Edmond Talbot Jr. June 1, 1898
George Grosvenor Tarbell 1886
Frederick H. Tarr Jr. March 25, 1903
Joseph E. Theberge April 27, 1903
James Francis Tobin May 8, 1903
Joseph Walton Tuttle Jr. August 20, 1894
Christopher J. Tyrrell June 21, 1895
Herbert W. Urquhart October 19, 1883
John H. Valentine July 21, 1896
Magorisk Lawrence Walls August 5, 1898
Ira C. Ward March 7, 1862
Michael James Ward September 19, 1899
Kendrick Harlow Washburn July 29, 1893
Patrick J. Welsh October 8, 1893
John B. Wenzler June 11, 1881
John J. Whalen June 5, 1876
John Philip White
John Chester Wilson August 14, 1889
Carl A. Woekel
Martin E. Young January 5, 1896
Abraham I. Zimon

See also

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References

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  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. ^ a b Public Officials of Massachusetts 1935-36. Boston Review.
  6. ^ a b c d "Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, 1935" (PDF), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – via State Library of Massachusetts
  7. ^ Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (2015), "Important Dates for Women in Massachusetts Government", History of Women in the Massachusetts Legislature 1923–2015

Further reading

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  • Election Statistics: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1935, hdl:2452/43426
  • Court, Massachusetts General (1935). Manual for the Use of the General Court. Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. hdl:2452/40706.
  • "Curley to Address Legislature Today: Convening Marks Second Sitting Of Both Branches--Few Changes Looked For on Committees", Daily Boston Globe, 1936
  • "Votes Flood Repairs: Massachusetts Legislature Passes $2,000,000 Sill for Highways", New York Times, March 27, 1936. (Related to March 1936 flood)
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